Alex Kurtagić (born 1970) is a British artist, musician, novelist, and publisher. He is the founder of Supernal Music, an independent metal label, and various publishing houses.^[1] Between 2009 and 2013 he was afar-right speaker and writer,^[2] but in 2019, he stated that he had disengaged from political extremism.^[1]

Kurtagić was born in 1970 to family of Spanish and Slovenian ancestry.^[3] Due to his parents' jobs, he spent part of his youth in South America.^[4] In 1995, he founded theBlack Metal music project Benighted Leams, which has since released four albums between 1996 and 2006.^[5] In 1996, he founded Supernal Music.^[6][7]

During the mid-to-late 1990s, his illustrations appeared on albums by black metal artists, such asDimmu Borgir,Deinonychus, andTormentor, among others. His cover of Dimmu Borgir'sStormblåst is featured in the bookHeavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers That Rocked the World.^[8]

Kurtagić's dystopian novel,Mister, was published in 2009. From then until 2013, he was active as afar-right intellectual figure.^[9] In 2011, a collection of articles and essays was published in book form by Unitall Verlag in German translation, with the titleJa, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen. A second collection, also in German, was published by Antaios in 2013 as Warum Konservative immer verlieren.^[10][11]

In 2019, a book collecting his artwork was published, containing also anecdotal, fictional, semi-fictional, and satirical texts. In the preface, he distanced himself from political extremism.^[1]

A second novel,Angel, was published in 2022.

Supernal Music offered amail order catalogue of underground music throughout the late 1990s,^[12] particularlyextreme metal and black metal. Its later roster included bands such as Astrofaes andDrudkh fromUkraine,Fleurety andMayhem fromNorway, andThe Meads of Asphodel from the United Kingdom.

• Caliginous Romantic Myth (1996)
• Astral Tenebrion (1998)
• Ferly Centesms (2004)
• Obombrid Welkins (2006)

• Mister. Iron Sky Publishing, 2009;ISBN 978-0-9561835-0-7
• Ja, Afrika muss zur Hölle gehen. Unitall Verlag, 2011;ISBN 978-3-905937-43-5
• Warum Konservative immer verlieren, Antaios (2013);ISBN 978-3-944422-35-0
• The Art of Alex Kurtagic. Spradabach Publishing, 2019.ISBN 978-1-9993573-0-6
• Angel. Spradabach Publishing, 2022.ISBN 978-1-9993573-7-5

• The Golden Tread by Miguel Serrano. The Palingenesis Project, 2017.
• The Veil Lifted for the Curious, or the Secrets of the French Revolution Revealed with the Aid of Freemasonry by Jacques-François Lefranc. Spradabach Publishing, 2022.

• Official website
• 2005 Interview with Benighted Leams

• 1970 births
• British bloggers
• British heavy metal musicians
• British people of Slovenian descent
• British people of Spanish descent
• Living people
• Black metal musicians

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