I got into death metal around ~2000. At that point I reached the incredibly named anus.com.* Y'all might laugh, but this was a super reactionary place at that point. I'll always remember the triggering moment for me: a simple question of whether culture determined race (social constructionism), or whether race determined culture. Just that possibility led me down a rabbit hole that never ceased. My nasty right-wing thoughts ever permeated, and after a touch of Sowell, I was done for.
*These days, some of the reviews on the old website are available at deathmetal.org.
--- a little drunk, so including some links:
**Never stopped creating and being into metal. Recent album from me: https://youtu.be/s3t07Bm_xYc
***and some beautiful metal from one of my favorite metal bands - no worries about wokeness here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX08XkWW7HU&t=1759s
**** and some more nice black metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIkL52qlcHA
I am not radical. I was kinda a punk, metal dude in the 90s. Then I was realising that the left was quite hypocritical about some issues, specially feminism and reparations for black people. Then Gamergate happened and it was just the glue to put all the pieces together. So I started to be against political correctness and all the progressiveness zealots. So I still like punk but what I thought it was against the system IS now the system and it is worse than what I used to be against for. The status quo nowadays is completely irrational and to see all the corporations and big money backing all these batshit crazy things just proves the point that "the enemy" is the same, they just changed tactics.