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Prussian Blue is a white nationalist folk teen duo formed in early 2003 by Lynx Gaede and Lamb Gaede (pronounced GAY-DEE), fraternal twin girls born (June 30, 1992) and brought up in the United States. Lynx plays violin, Lamb plays guitar, and both of the girls sing.
Early history
The girls first performed together by singing at a nationalist festival, called Eurofest, in 2001. They began to learn to play instruments in 2002, and by 2003 were performing in public. They recorded and released a debut CD at the end of 2004 called Fragment of the Future (Resistance Records) which had an acoustic folk-rock sound. A year later, they recorded their second album which has a more traditional rock sound including both acoustic and electric guitar.
Ideology
Lynx and Lamb first made national attention in 2002 when they appeared on a VH1 special called "Inside Hate Rock". In 2003, they appeared in a Louis Theroux BBC documentary entitled Louis and the Nazis on white supremacy in the United States, and on October 20, 2005 were featured in a critical segment on ABC's Primetime. Prussian Blue toured the US in 2005.
The group has strong ties to the National Vanguard organization, a white nationalist group formed by disaffected former members of the National Alliance. Their views have been described as racialist in nature .
According to an article from ABC News, the girls were homeschooled by their mother, April Gaede, an activist and writer for the white activist organization National Vanguard. The article further discusses the twins' maternal grandfather, who wears a swastika belt buckle, uses the Nazi symbol on his truck and registered it as a cattle brand. The twins have a baby sister named Dresden. Though the family was originally located in Bakersfield, California, the twins' mother, April Gaede, has reportedly sold their home because she prefers to raise her children where more whites are represented. The girls now attend public school in a predominantly white area.
During their ABC interview, the twins said they believe Adolf Hitler was a good man with great ideas, such as eugenic standards and incentives to improve the genetic quality of the German people, and marriage loans to help qualified German families begin upon a firm financial basis. In the interview, the twins described the Holocaust as being exaggerated.
They describe their ancestry as English, Scottish and Prussian. The band was named after the color Prussian blue, as a reference to the girls' Prussian heritage and their blue eyes. They also stated that they think Prussian blue is "just a really pretty color". In an interview with viceland.com they added: "There is also the discussion of the lack of 'Prussian Blue' coloring (Zyklon B residue) in the so-called gas chambers in the concentration camps. We think it might make people question some of the inaccuracies of the 'Holocaust' myth." This is a reference to an investigation of Zyklon B residues made by a couple of Holocaust revisionists, dismissed as pseudo-science by scientists.
They have recently been criticized for stipulating that money they donated to Hurricane Katrina victims should go only to white people .
Lyrics and influences
Most of the songs on Prussian Blue's first album are covers of white nationalist songs. The majority of those were written by David Lane, Ian Stuart, and Ken McLellan. Two of Prussian Blue's songs on their first album are dedicated to famous Nazis and neo-Nazi activists such as Rudolf Hess and Robert Jay Mathews. One of those songs, which was written by Lamb, is "Sacrifice":
- Rudolf Hess, man of Peace
- He wouldn't give up and he wouldn't cease
- Remember him and give a pause
- Robert Matthews knew the Truth
- He knew what he had to do
- He set an example with Courage so bold
- We'll never let that fire grow cold
The cover songs the duo choose to include on their album invoke ideas like Valhalla and Vinland, taken from Norse mythology and sagas. These themes aim to draw from Richard Wagner's use in the context of nativism, thereby aiming to revive beliefs in the cleansing of the so-called "Aryan race" .
The debut single for their second album The Stranger is adapted from a poem by Rudyard Kipling who ostensibly supported the concept of white supremacy in many of his writings, most notably in The White Man's Burden.
Recently, they released a song in mp3 format on their blog entitled "Ocean Warriors," dedicated to the white participants in the recent 2005 Sydney, Australia race rioting.
Discography
External links
Official
Related
- Interview with the National Vanguard, a white nationalist publication.
- Jerry's Prussian Blue Page
- Dresdens Blog, the younger sister of Prussian Blue