No Colours Records

No Colours Records was a German record label whose catalogue connected the German band Absurd with the Polish Black Metal band Graveland. Its role in releasing music placed it within a cross-border network that, by the late 1990s, drew scrutiny not only for its recordings but also for alleged political content.

Catalogue and Cross-Border Connections

Graveland released music through No Colours Records, which had also produced an album by Absurd. The label thus linked bands from Poland and Germany within the broader European Black Metal scene. Graveland’s frontman, Robert Fudali, publicly advocated a revival of pagan identity and made statements supporting Adolf Hitler; the book also reports that accounts of church burnings in Poland were reaching Western Europe amid the rise of extreme right-wing activity there. These details describe the wider context around a band on the label, but do not establish that No Colours Records itself directed or participated in those acts.

Police Raids in 1999

On October 6, 1999, German police raided homes across the country, including residences associated with No Colours Records and Darker Than Black. The initial allegations concerned the distribution of releases described by authorities as National Socialist, anti-Semitic, racist, and violent. Absurd records were among the items found during the raids.

The action brought the label into a government investigation of the Black Metal record scene, but it did not result in legal proceedings against those whose homes were searched. The material seized, including the Absurd records, was not considered sufficiently unlawful to support a strong court case.

Significance

No Colours Records appears in the account both as a distributor within an international musical network and as a target of state scrutiny over that network’s releases. The contrast matters: the raids made the label part of a broader confrontation between authorities and extremist music distribution, while their failure to produce proceedings marked a limit to the legal case against the material found.