EXCLUSIVE: NJ club that canceled heavy metal music festival says organizers scrubbed Nazi imagery from initial ad
The Wisla Club in Garfield, N.J., some 15 miles northwest of midtown Manhattan, canceled a heavy metal festival after it says that it uncovered ties between organizers and some performers to neo-Nazi and white supremacist…
Assessment
A New Jersey venue canceled a heavy metal festival after discovering that organizers had submitted a sanitized promotional poster without Nazi imagery, while a later version included such symbols. The club claims it was misled about the event's true nature. The key question is whether the organizers deliberately concealed their affiliations or whether the imagery emerged organically from the subculture. Watch for any legal action or public statements from the festival organizers.