Panzerfaust Records Explained

Panzerfaust Records
Status:Defunct
Genre:Rock Against Communism
Country:United States
Location:Minnesota

Panzerfaust Records was a Minnesota-based white power record label founded in September 1998. Named after a German anti-tank weapon,[1] the record label distributed the music of white power bands and organized concerts across the United States.

At the label's peak around 2000, it was the main competitor of Resistance Records, and they had grown close to the neo-Nazi group White Revolution.

History

Panzerfaust Records was founded in 1998 by Anthony Pierpont, Ed Wolbank and Eric Davidson.[2] [3] The organization had ties to a number of other groups, including Hammerskin Nation[4] (the "largest [US] skinhead group"[5]), Volksfront and White Revolution. In 2003 Bryant Cecchini, aka Byron Calvert, joined the company.

In 2004, the label launched Project Schoolyard, a United States-wide campaign to distribute free Panzerfaust sampler CDs to middle school and high school students.[6] In response, schools were notified and in some districts, CDs were confiscated or voluntarily turned over by students.[7] [8] The anti-fascist record label Insurgence Records responded by offering a free downloadable compilation called Project Boneyard.[9]

Panzerfaust Records shut down in early 2005 after the arrest of Pierpont for drug possession upon returning from a sex tourism trip to Thailand,[10] [11] and the emergence of evidence that Pierpont was of Hispanic descent and had dated transgender individuals and non-white women.[12] [13] The company was reorganized without Pierpont to become Free Your Mind Productions but disbanded for good shortly after. Pierpont has since supposedly moved away from racism and the white power movement.[14]

As of January 27, 2005, the Panzerfaust website was no longer operating.[15]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Mackay . Neil . 22 January 2006 . White off the scale . 17 April 2024 . The Guardian.
  2. W. Etter . Gregg . 2009 . HIP-HOP, NARCOCORRIDO, AND NEO-NAZI HATE ROCK: A COMPARISON OF ALIENATED CRIMINAL GROUPS . Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies . 9 . 98-112 . 17 April 2024 . ProQuest.
  3. Book: Simi, Pete . American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate . Futrell . Robert . Rowman & Littlefield . 2015 . 978-1-4422-4136-7 . 2nd . 80.
  4. Web site: Horwich . Jeff . 13 May 2004 . MPR: Top "white power" music label prospers from Twin Cities home base . 17 April 2024 . Minnesota Public Radio.
  5. Foxman, Abraham; Wolf, Christopher. (2013). Viral Hate: Containing Its Spread on the Internet, Macmillan. .
  6. News: Guarino . Mark . 7 August 2012 . Wisconsin shooting: how racist bands recruit for white supremacists . 17 April 2024 . The Christian Science Monitor.
  7. Web site: 8 October 2004 . Neo-Nazi Group Targeting Schools for Music Distribution . 17 April 2024 . Education Week.
  8. 21 December 2004 . NEO-NAZI LABEL WOOS TEENS WITH HATE-MUSIC SAMPLER . 17 April 2024 . Intelligence Report . Southern Poverty Law Center.
  9. Web site: 18 November 2004 . SEBERME FAŠISTŮM JEJICH ZBRANĚ - PROJECT BONEYARD USA . TAKE AWAY THE FASCISTS' WEAPONS - PROJECT BONEYARD USA . 17 April 2024 . Czechcore . Czech.
  10. News: Funk . Michael . 19 March 2005 . Sex, Drugs, Hate Rock . 28 January 2017 . Telepolis . Heise . de-DE.
  11. Web site: Padilla . Howie . 18 February 2005 . Drug arrest killed hate-music business, owner says . 17 April 2024 . Cult Education Institute . The Star Tribune.
  12. News: Raihala . Ross . 5 February 2005 . Racist record label closes over owner’s race . 17 April 2024 . The Spokesman-Review . St. Paul Pioneer Press.
  13. O'Hara . Carolyn . 14 November 2005 . From Prussia with hate: Lynx and Lamb are Californian twin sisters hoping to become stars. But, as Carolyn O'Hara reveals, their pop-country ballads represent the latest strategy of America's white supremacists. . 17 April 2024 . . 134 . 4766.
  14. Zaitchik . Alexander . 16 January 2007 . FORMER HATE ROCKER ANTHONY PIERPONT TARGETS OLD COLLEAGUES IN NEW PROJECT . 17 April 2024 . Intelligence Report . Southern Poverty Law Center .
  15. Web site: 24 September 2004 . Panzerfaust Records: Distributor of Hate Music . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140223013333/https://www.archive.adl.org/extremism/panzerfaust_records.html#.UwlP8X3P32c . 23 February 2014 . 17 April 2024 . Anti-Defamation League.

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