Ultima Thule | |
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| Origin | Nyköping, Sweden |
| Genres | Rock, viking rock |
| Years active | 1984–1987 1990–present |
| Members | Bruno Hansen - guitar, vocals Niklas Adolfsson - guitar |
| Past members | Jan Thörnblom - guitar, vocals |
| Website | ultimathule |
Ultima Thule (Latin for "Farthest North") is a Swedish rock band. Their style is based on what they call Vikingarock ("Viking rock"), which combines occasional folk melodies with rock, mixed with Oi!, street punk and Teddy Boy. Some of their lyrics are versions of poems and traditional songs by Evert Taube, such as "Änglamark". They have also released several versions of Sweden's national anthem, "Du gamla, Du fria'". They have been described as a white power band,[1][2] though ethnomusicologist Benjamin R. Teitelbaum argues that this classification is much too simplistic.[3] The band also rejects the description, saying they oppose fascism and racism.[4]
För Fäderneslandet is Ultima Thule's most popular album, selling more than 100,000 copies. Vikingabalk, their second best selling album, went gold with more than 80,000 copies sold.
- ^ Corte, Ugo & Edwards, Bob. "White Power music and the mobilization of racist social movements" (PDF). Music and Arts in Action. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ Pred, Allan (2000). Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination. University of California Press. p. 219. ISBN 0520224493. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ Teitelbaum, Benjamin (2013). “Come Hear Our Merry Song:” Shifts in the Sound of Contemporary Swedish Radical Nationalism. Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University. p.61
- ^ Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. (2017). Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism. Oxford University Press. p. xi.