Alex Kurtagić (pronounced Kurt-uh-gitch), born 1970 and residing in the United Kingdom, is a radical traditionalist, racial-realist, elitist, pro-White activist and author on the Alternative and New Right,[1] artist, musician,[2] publisher, translator,[3] interviewer,[4][5] blogger,[6] movie and book reviewer,[7][8] cultural commentator and social critic.[9][10][11] His writing deals with topics relating to culture, politics, music, and race relations in the contemporary West. Kurtagić is the co-editor of Alternative Right,[12] and he has written for various elitist and radical traditionalist publications, including Taki's Magazine[13] and The Occidental Quarterly.[14]
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Kurtagić was born in 1970, in Spain to a father born in Croatia of Slovenian stock. His grandparents on his mothers side had 11 children.[15]
His parents moved around a lot (with his father being a computer scientist[16]), residing in numerous countries and has lived in five countries, “both in the First and Third Worlds, located on both sides of the Atlantic.”[17] He has lived in Latin America during the 1970's and 1980's, Madrid in Spain for a few years, the Netherlands, Austin, Texas in the United States in 1975 and 1976 but since settling in the United Kingdom has spent most of his life there.[16] He is a multi linguist, speaking, English, Spanish and French, amongst others.[15]
Kurtagić went through the U.S. educational system in both university and highschool and completed his post graduate work in a British university.[16]
In the 1990s he founded the extreme metal music label Supernal Music and operates it still today (2011).
He is the owner of the independent publisher Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group which currently has two imprints: Iron Sky Publishing and The Palingenesis Project.[18]
Kurtagić is a frequent contributor to The Occidental Observer and a contributing editor for Alternative Right, where he is co-editor.[16]
In addition to these publications, his essays, articles, and reviews can be found in The Occidental Quarterly, Vdare, Counter Currents, Taki Mag, and American Renaissance.
He is friends with Troy Southgate and publishes his works.[19]
He has been interview many times by Tomislav Sunić[16][20][21][22][23]
His detractors, meanwhile, have linked him to the far-right neo-nazi scene.[24][25][26]
A previously unpublished article of his also featured in 'The Radical Tradition: Philosophy, Metapolitics and the Conservative Revolution', edited by Troy Southgate, 'Yockey and the Cancer-Growth Economy' in The Occidental Quarterly. Volume 10, Number 3, Autumn 2010 and 'Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Popular Culture' in The Occidental Quarterly. Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2010.
In January 2011, he became co-editor, with Richard Spencer, of AlternativeRight.com. Kurtagić is also the man behind the Black Metal project, Benighted Leams.
He produced the cover art for 'Mister', 'The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-Man'[27] and 'The French Revolution in San Domingo'[28] by Lothrop Stoddard, and 'The Proclamation of London' by Francis Parker Yockey, as well as coverwork for various black metal album releases.[29]
Benighted Leams is an Ambient Black Metal band created in 1995 by Kurtagić. Kurtagić has put out four albums on his own Supernal Music label. Kurtagić performs all instruments & vocals, apart from on the fourth album (which saw Wulfhild join the fold) of which the lyrics for tracks 2, 3, 5, and 6 were written by Wulfhild. They deal with twisted phobias, like fear of heavy objects causing floors to collapse, pathophobia, alopaecia, and so forth).[2][30]
Kurtagić is the only person in the Black Metal scene, as of 2011 to have released a track about a university professor (Kevin MacDonald).[22]
The band participated in the "Anti-Geldof Compilation" by Supernal Music playing the exclusive song "Believe, Submit, Obey".[31]
The fourth album was influenced with readings of Dr. William Luther Pierce and Prof. Kevin MacDonald, aesthetised in arcane, mythologising ways.[2]
Kurtagić also did the cover art and co-composed, alongside Aphazel, one track on the Norwegian band, Ancient's, "The Cainian Chronicle" 1996 album, the track being number 5, "At The Infernal Portal (Canto III)."
In 2009 he published his Right-wing dystopian novel, Mister which has a foreword by professor Tomislav Sunić[32] and is currently working on his second novel about Nazi UFOs.[33] 'Mister' is a re-write of a previous novel that he wrote in 1983. In 2003 he decided to redo the novel completely and the 2nd edition he decided to make it political and dystopian.[16]
Kurtagic's forthcoming novel will be titled 'Antarktos'. It is described as a "companion volume to his seminal dystopian opus, Mister, but not a sequel." This novel will "contain both utopian and dystopian elements; it will also be longer and a much more ambitious work than its predecessor. It will develop some of the esoteric themes touched upon in Mister, drawning inspiration from the writings of Miguel Serrano and Savitri Devi. It will also explore concepts relating to the Conservative Revolution and the Völkisch Movement within a Science Fiction framework."[34]