Panzerfaust Records
Minnesota white power label active 1998–2005.
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Panzerfaust Records was a Minnesota-based white power record label founded in September 1998. Named after a German anti-tank weapon, the label distributed music of white power bands and organized concerts across the United States. At its peak around 2000, it was the main competitor of Resistance Records and had grown close to the neo-Nazi group White Revolution.
History
Panzerfaust Records got its start in 1998, founded by Anthony Pierpont, Ed Wolbank, and Eric Davidson. The label was connected to groups like Hammerskin Nation, Volksfront, and White Revolution. In 2003, Bryant Cecchini and Byron Calvert came on board. A year later, the label kicked off Project Schoolyard, a campaign that sent free sampler CDs to middle and high school students across the United States.
Schools were alerted, and in some places, the CDs were taken from students or handed in voluntarily. In response, the anti-fascist label Insurgence Records put out a free downloadable compilation called Project Boneyard. Panzerfaust Records closed in early 2005. This followed Pierpont’s arrest for drug possession after a sex tourism trip to Thailand, plus the discovery that he was of Hispanic descent and had dated transgender individuals and non-white women.
The company was restructured as Free Your Mind Productions without Pierpont, but it didn’t last long. Pierpont is said to have since left racism and the white power movement behind. By January 27, 2005, the Panzerfaust website was gone.
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