Officials with the east side rock club Harpos pulled the plug early during a Saturday concert after they were alerted the band lineup was deemed to have Nazi and white-supremacist leanings. Venue owners Ruzvelt Stevanovski and Krystle Dzajkovskalt said Monday they were blindsided by the nature of the metal show and abruptly halted it as the second of seven scheduled bands performed onstage. Stevanovski, a longtime Detroit venue operator who purchased Harpos in January 2017, said he was working the venue’s concession area Saturday evening when he began getting “urgent phone calls” from friends. They were seeing outraged online posts claiming Harpos was hosting a neo-Nazi event. “As soon as I found out, I walked onstage and said: ‘We’re shutting down. Kill the sound,’” he told the Free Press. The crowd at the time numbered between 200 and 250 people, Stevanovski said. The bands onsite left without incident, he said.
via freep: Harpos shuts down metal concert after bands in lineup accused of Nazi leanings
siehe auch: Harpos owners apologize for hosting neo-Nazi metal show The rock club canceled a concert mid-show after it realized the bands were affiliated with white supremacy. The owners of Harpos Concert Theatre in Detroit issued a public apology Monday after a metal show with ties to neo-Nazis and white supremacists was booked at the venue over the weekend. The legendary venue came under fire after news began to spread that the seven-band show, dubbed “A Night of Black Metal and Carnage,” was taking place at Harpos on the city’s east side on Saturday night. In lengthy statement, co-owners Ruzvelt Stevanovski and Krystle Dzajkovska said they were “manipulated” and had no idea that the show was associated with National Socialist black metal (NSBM), which broadly refers to bands that promote fascist and white supremacist ideology.

