Alex Kurtagić
{{Short description|British musician}}
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Supernal Music (record label)
Mister (novel)
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Alex Kurtagić (born 1970) is a British artist, musician, novelist, and publisher. He is the founder of Supernal Music, an independent metal label, and various publishing houses.Kurtagic, Alex, The Art of Alex Kurtagic: 1989 - 2017 (London: Spradabach Publishing, 2019) p. xi-xii Between 2009 and 2013 he was a far-right speaker and writer,Dreaming of a Parallel Culture Searchlight (April 2012) p. 5-8 but in 2019, he stated that he had disengaged from political extremism.
Life
Kurtagić was born in 1970 to family of Spanish and Slovenian ancestry.[https://sezession.de/9424/alex-kurtagic-mister Alex Kurtagic: Mister] Due to his parents' jobs, he spent part of his youth in South America.Lichtmesz, Martin. [http://www.sezession.de/9424/alex-kurtagic-mister.html "Alex Kurtagić: Mister"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910004613/http://www.sezession.de/9424/alex-kurtagic-mister.html |date=10 September 2011 }}, Sezession.de, December 2009.{{in lang|de}} In 1995, he founded the Black Metal music project Benighted Leams, which has since released four albums between 1996 and 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Benighted_Leams/10134|title=Benighted Leams – Encyclopaedia Metallum|publisher=The Metal Archives|accessdate=20 November 2016}} In 1996, he founded Supernal Music.Terrorizer Magazine No. 38 (January 1997)Terrorizer Magazine No. 126 (December 2004)
During the mid-to-late 1990s, his illustrations appeared on albums by black metal artists, such as Dimmu Borgir, Deinonychus, and Tormentor, among others. His cover of Dimmu Borgir's Stormblåst is featured in the book Heavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers That Rocked the World.Neil Aldis and James Sherry. Heavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers that Rocked the World, Mitchell Beazley (2006); {{ISBN|978-1-84533-195-5}}
Writer
Kurtagić's dystopian novel, Mister, was published in 2009. From then until 2013, he was active as a far-right intellectual figure.{{cite web |title=Who's who {{!}} The International Alt Right |url=https://alternativeright.hopenothate.com/whos-who |website=hopenothate.com |access-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920165740/https://alternativeright.hopenothate.com/whos-who |archive-date=20 September 2017}} In 2011, a collection of articles and essays was published in book form by Unitall Verlag in German translation, with the title Ja, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen. A second collection, also in German, was published by Antaios in 2013 as Warum Konservative immer verlieren.[http://www.sezession.de/38596/der-funke-uber-alex-kurtagic.html "Der Funke" über Alex Kurtagić] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607000602/http://www.sezession.de/38596/der-funke-uber-alex-kurtagic.html |date=7 June 2013 }}, Sezession.de, 7 May 2013. {{in lang|de}}Kleine-Hartlage, Manfred. [http://www.pi-news.net/2013/04/kurtagic-warum-konservative-immer-verlieren "Kurtagić: Warum Konservative immer verlieren"], Pi, 13 April 2013. {{in lang|de}}
In 2019, a book collecting his artwork was published, containing also anecdotal, fictional, semi-fictional, and satirical texts. In the preface, he distanced himself from political extremism.
A second novel, Angel, was published in 2022.
Supernal Music<!--'Supernal Music' redirects here-->
Supernal Music offered a mail order catalogue of underground music throughout the late 1990s,Keith Kahn-Harris, Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (Oxford: Berg, 2007) {{ISBN|978-1845203986}}, p. 64 particularly extreme metal and black metal. Its later roster included bands such as Astrofaes and Drudkh from Ukraine, Fleurety and Mayhem from Norway, and The Meads of Asphodel from the United Kingdom.
Discography
=Benighted Leams=
- Caliginous Romantic Myth (1996)
- Astral Tenebrion (1998)
- Ferly Centesms (2004)
- Obombrid Welkins (2006)
Bibliography
- Mister. Iron Sky Publishing, 2009; {{ISBN|978-0-9561835-0-7}}
- Ja, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen. Unitall Verlag, 2011; {{ISBN|978-3-905937-43-5}}
- Warum Konservative immer verlieren, Antaios (2013); {{ISBN|978-3-944422-35-0}}
- The Art of Alex Kurtagic. Spradabach Publishing, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-9993573-0-6}}
- Angel. Spradabach Publishing, 2022. {{ISBN|978-1-9993573-7-5}}
Translations
- The Golden Tread by Miguel Serrano. The Palingenesis Project, 2017.
- The Veil Lifted for the Curious, or the Secrets of the French Revolution Revealed with the Aid of Freemasonry by Jacques-François Lefranc. Spradabach Publishing, 2022.
References
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External links
- {{official website|url=http://www.alexkurtagic.info}}
- [http://www.metalreviews.com/interviews/interviews.php?id=59 2005 Interview with Benighted Leams]
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Category:British heavy metal musicians
Category:British people of Slovenian descent