Exclusive | Brooklyn venue horrified after animal blood spilled during metal show featuring bands with alleged neo-Nazi ties
Don’t have a cow.A metal band with alleged ties to neo-Nazis splattered the exterior of a New York City bar with cow’s blood at a performance last week after duping the venue into allowing them to perform, according to the establishment’s management.“I exit[ed] the place from the back door and I see like the blood on the floor — a lot of blood on the floor,” recalled Roger Torres, a manager at Tulum Night Club in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where black metal band Volahn played Jan.26.“So I say, ‘what happened? Somebody fighting?’ I asked the security guys and they tell me, ‘No, nobody fight,’” Torres, 54, added.
“Later, we see a gallon of [beef] blood.”Volahn – helmed by controversial Southern California-based musician Eduardo Ramirez – managed to snag a last-minute booking at the Sunset Park venue, Torres recalled, after online backlash led to Ramirez’s other Big Apple shows at Juan Bar in Corona and Trans-Pecos in Ridgewood being cancelled just weeks before.Ramirez has opened for the Nazi-affiliated band Inquisition and previously led other groups with swastika-like logos, such as Blue Hummingbird on the Left, according to reports.“On that day, we didn’t have anything,” Bravo said of the booking.“A day before [the show] they call us … And, you know, they were looking for a spot.
They offered us a deal.”The Tulum show was not advertised online, and flyers for the show told fans the venue was “TBA.”Flyers say the performance was hosted by Metal Kingdom Records, a record store in Corona.Ramirez has been pictured with the co-founder of Wolves of Vineland, dubbed a “Neo-Volkisch hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.The musician was also spotted sporting band tees of the “infamous Nazi band Graveland,” per a compendium of hate bands by German metal fest Hellseatic.Ramirez also played Oakland’s Never Surrender festival, which local activists dubbed a “Nazi fest” during protests to shut the event down...