Redneck black metal

Blood Cult - Goatriders in the sky (mp3)
Blood Cult on MySpace
Next to sinister occultism and devil worshiping very popular topics in black metal are grim places which refer to the pagan roots of those mighty bands. For scandinavians it's easy - they had vikings and they have bad weather. But most of the european bands have something to tell about their barbaric ancestors and it sort of antichritian thing, because most of those ancestors had to fight with christian conquerors. As far as this is not a 3rd grade history lesson here, I'm not planning to go too deep on this issue. Anyway, my point is, that America, as a New World doesn't fit in this picture. There ain't much American BM groups who are real patriots of their country. At least they don't want to mention it.
Then again, Blood Cult, an Illinoisian trio declare on their website, that they play redneck black metal. This means that they are proud of being true rough smalltown truckdriving-beerdrinking dudes, who are not messing with corpsepaint and other questionable artifacts of black metal. Instead they wear common local uniform - cowboy hats and boots.
Blood Cult has existed more than a decade and in this time they have released over dozens of demos, splits and D.I.Y albums, but only one official full length. So, it means that all these years they have kept their obscure underground fame. The music is raw and has a lot of rock twist with fiery guitars playing unison solos and stuff like that. It doesn't go as far as being Monster Magnet black metal, but a little maybe like dirty garage BM with a touch of early Xysma. But it isn't some weird satanic hippie metal. They are too genuine narrowminded rednecks for that. More like Venom or Motörhead played in the vein of Profanatica.