Samurai Spirits Skinheads edition.
Keep all discussion about political ideologies themselves on /his/. While it is perfectly fine to discuss the merits or flaws of each band's views, the focal point of these threads are their music.
Samurai Spirits Skinheads are Japanese skinheads who have deep ties of their native nationalist movements. The Werewolfen compilation from 1995 first brought their scene and movement a lot of exposure around the world. Perhaps the most famous of the SSS bands is Sledge Hammer, whose name struck a chord with wider audiences as being very similar to Skrewdriver.
Japanese skinheads were influenced by the Nazi imagery and nationalist / right-wing politics coming from the British, European, and American RAC scenes. They felt it was logical to identify and be “allied with” white right-wing skinheads from around the world - just as Hitler’s Germany allied with Japan in World War II. A lot of the early SSS bands were intensely nationalist, some even describing themselves as “Nazi skinheads”!
The SSS bands’ lyrics certainly deal with patriotic, nationalist, and even somewhat xenophobic subjects. There is little, if any, outright racism evidenced in SSS like their Western brethren. Due to that, and the rather serious language barrier, these bands have gotten a lot of notice from traditional non-political skinheads around the world. The varying right-wing skinhead factions accepted them to greater and lesser extents, too.
Growl Strike:
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Bull the Buffalos:
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鐵槌 (Sledge Hammer):
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雷矢 (Raiya / Laiya):
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