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>some of the organizers are close friends with well known neo nazis
Some of the organizers are close friends with well-known radical leftists. So what?
They have known each other through the subculture over the years and became friends.
Sounds like guilty by association to me. How is that any of your business?
>there have been open threats of violence on stage towards bands that canceled their show because of that.
I strongly suspect you're alluding to what happened this year, and you're either uninformed and have picked up some shallow gossip, or you're deliberately trying to cast the organizers in a bad light.
The bands Pakkt and Hexer were planned for the original 2025 lineup.
This is one of the many examples in which Bartholomäus has booked bands from the left-wing scene or, as in this case, tried to.
This alone should show any rationally thinking person that he is not concerned with promoting NS ideology or some BS political views but exclusively with the music at his event.
The Alm has been known for years for not being too squeamish about extreme political views, although a certain level of shadiness has never been surpassed.
This distinguishes it from commercial events like Roadburn or your typical "look at me, I'm so underground" BM festival, which has to be on a constant lookout to avoid getting into conflict with some moral guardians so as not to scare off its sponsors.
Pakkt and Hexer knew exactly what they were getting into when they agreed to the booking.
Just a year before, Beherit, for example, played on stage with a member of Goatmoon, and nobody raised an eyebrow since that kind of stuff is just to be expected from a festival like this.
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