NewsFebruary 17, 2017 8:50 PM ET19,857 views

Marduk show in Oakland cancelled "in the interest of safety"

California venue the Oakland Metro Operahouse has cancelled tomorrow's (February 18) show featuring Swedish black metal band Marduk. Specifically, the venue says that the Oakland Police Department would have forced them to scrap the show in the interest of public safety. The following statement has been put forth:
"In the last week we have read interview after interview with Marduk spanning over the last 20 years and found no statements indicating the band are white supremacists, nationalists, or anti-immigrant. That being said, we don't want to subject our security staff, venue staff or the public to violence. Our staff is almost exclusively POC and/or LBGTQ and they have all expressed the desire to work, but as we are getting threats, we just can't risk it. So, in the interest of safety, and because the Oakland Police Department would have insisted anyway, we have canceled the Marduk performance on Feb 18. "The Oakland Police Department has decided in the interest of public safety that the Marduk show on Saturday, February 18 at the Oakland Metro Operahouse be cancelled. Refunds at point of purchase. We apologize for the inconvenience."
Oakland Police cancels Marduk show

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anonymous 2/17/2017 6:09:52 PM

Lol @ the groups being a bigger threat than actual anti-semites.

anonymous 2/17/2017 6:19:31 PM

LOL at all of this pathetic whiney bullshit. Free speech works both ways. So who TF cares even if they WERE a nazi band? yea it would be retarded racist bullshit but who cares, don't attend. Burning shit and "protesting" is 3rd world behavior. And pussies that completely shut down out of fear is letting the whole world know that violence works.

anonymous 2/17/2017 7:05:31 PM

Alright lambgoat, I made sure I have a bowl of popcorn popped the capacity of a small village... Please don't disappoint

anonymous 2/17/2017 7:16:36 PM

FUQ PC. -Bud

anonymous 2/17/2017 7:21:46 PM

im sure without a scary black metal band playing oakland will stay the safest place in the country

anonymous 2/17/2017 7:23:43 PM

Black Metal Lives Matter

anonymous 2/17/2017 7:30:36 PM

fck Mac -Weiser

anonymous 2/17/2017 7:31:54 PM

Seth Putnam, GG, el duce, these dudes could never exist in the internet age.

anonymous 2/17/2017 8:08:20 PM

Oakland used to be dangerous as fck. What happened?

anonymous 2/17/2017 8:12:36 PM

Will continue sacrificing immigrants while listening to black metal

anonymous 2/17/2017 8:26:38 PM

Five dudes who bought tickets are not stoked.

anonymous 2/17/2017 9:19:02 PM

THINGS WENT DOWNHILL IN THE WORLD SINCE I DIED. fckING G@Y. ANYONE HAVE ANY DRUGS? WE RAN OUT OF THEM IN HELL SOMEHOW.

anonymous 2/17/2017 9:19:33 PM

-SETH

anonymous 2/18/2017 1:50:25 AM

This is one of the most insane things I have ever written and it has drastically decreased my will to live

anonymous 2/18/2017 2:53:07 AM

It's only free speech if it goes along with the liberal agenda. Screw this country. Conservatism is the new punk rock.

anonymous 2/18/2017 4:56:45 AM

Tell me these guys deadlift more than Wally.

anonymous 2/18/2017 5:31:17 AM

SCORESMAN here, let's fck some whores!

anonymous 2/18/2017 6:29:24 AM

'Murica

anonymous 2/18/2017 7:09:35 AM

anonymous12 hours ago "LOL at all of this pathetic whiney bullshit. Free speech works both ways. So who TF cares even if they WERE a nazi band? yea it would be retarded racist bullshit but who cares, don't attend. Burning shit and "protesting" is 3rd world behavior. And pussies that completely shut down out of fear is letting the whole world know that violence works." Uhh, it does(?) Welcome to hardcore.

anonymous 2/18/2017 7:28:11 AM

G A Y

analcest 2/18/2017 8:17:55 AM

HAIL STAN!

anonymous 2/18/2017 9:02:14 AM

There's a lot of pssy little snowflakes in the San Fran/Oakland area.

anonymous 2/18/2017 9:03:49 AM

Liberty stolen

anonymous 2/18/2017 9:51:33 AM

SACRIFICE THEM ALL.

anonymous 2/18/2017 11:09:54 AM

Marcucks

anonymous 2/18/2017 11:44:36 AM

I guess I'm now a fan of Marduk

anonymous 2/18/2017 3:46:09 PM

Hope the venue still paid the bands.

anonymous 2/18/2017 4:24:09 PM

It's amazing that people I don't like in the first place go out of their way, even force me to feel more against them even more than I already do. It's amazing how many people I now just totally hate after all the bull /lies gossip exaggeration and endless backstabbing stuff I gotta put up with all the time and now cancelling a Marduk show due to pressure and threats by obviously a group of people I can only refer to as yet another bunch of enemies! I hate a lot more bozos now!

anonymous 2/18/2017 10:55:54 PM

metal

anonymous 2/18/2017 11:51:34 PM

Sometimes I think McCarthy was right about leftist commie gayits

anonymous 2/19/2017 5:24:32 AM

Speaking as a Jew, I can only say this: LET THEM PLAY. If I don't want to hear them, I do not have to pay to see them.

anonymous 2/19/2017 5:27:56 AM

What ever happened to 'Not giving in to Terrorism'? This certainly has the feel of caving in to me.

anonymous 2/19/2017 9:26:49 AM

Just ordered a Marduk shirt after reading this, fack the snowflakes JajAJJAajajaj

anonymous 2/19/2017 8:59:40 PM

Antifa is brave

anonymous 2/20/2017 9:46:00 AM

California is the absolute worst.

anonymous 2/20/2017 10:07:35 AM

Marduk's predominant lyrical topics are Satanism, anti-Christianity, Biblical tales, death, Third Reich history, and World War II. The latter two are a later addition to their lyrical/conceptual themes, stemming from their 1999 release Panzer Division Marduk. Marduk have recorded further songs relating to those chapters of human history, such as "The Hangman of Prague" (moniker of Reinhard Heydrich - second in command of the SS)

anonymous 2/20/2017 10:54:28 AM

Angela Dancev got this shut down. Look her up and you'll see this isn't the first time she's done this.

anonymous 2/20/2017 11:11:37 AM

Gas the sages, race war now!

anonymous 2/20/2017 12:02:03 PM

FSU is definitely behind this duh

anonymous 2/21/2017 1:03:33 PM

Welcome to the new order, the SJW/feminist order. This is why we must FIGHT back more than ever.

anonymous 2/22/2017 4:56:35 AM

Marduk headlining CPAC. Confirmed.


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