This is from a few years ago but it's still pretty interesting today.
Ace of Bass's Ulf Ekberg was a Nazi and in a neo-Nazi skinhead metal band prior to being in Ace of Bass. This was revealed in a 2013 article in Vice, though he later denied that a series of racist songs credited to his old band Commit Suiside were actually theirs, and also denied his former membership to a neo-Nazi political party. That denial seemed to kill the story.
Then in 2015, Cracked posted a lengthy article with some curious coincidences about Ace of Bass lyrics.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 8, 2018 8:06 PM |
[quote]The name is most likely a reference to the Keroman Submarine Base, a massive U-boat launching and docking facility constructed by the Nazis in the French town of Loriant. It's considered one of the most important and ambitious projects of the entire war for their side. ...it was the place where Germany's top U-boat captains carried out all of their missions, it was often called the "base of aces."
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[quote]Take the video for one of their biggest singles, the aforementioned "All That She Wants." Right off the bat, a quick scan of the lyrics reveals that it's basically about a woman who leeches off society by tricking men into getting her pregnant so she doesn't have to work.
[quote]...within the first 15 seconds of the video, the subject of the song, the leech whom the band is directing all of their hate toward, is shown stroking a necklace that's just a bunch of six-pointed stars ...
[quote]... twice.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 8, 2018 8:05 PM |
Here's the original Vice article on Noisey that revealed Ekberg's past:
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 8, 2018 8:06 PM |
And here's Ekberg saying sure, he used to think Nazi thoughts, but he's totally like so over that now, and also he didn't really do that Nazi stuff anyway.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 8, 2018 8:06 PM |
