Prussian Blue (duo)
| Company type | Music duo |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | April Gaede |
| Headquarters | Bakersfield, California , United States |
| Products | Music albums, singles |
Prussian Blue was an American pop music duo consisting of fraternal twins Lynx Vaughan Gaede and Lamb Lennon Gaede, born on June 30, 1992, in Bakersfield, California. The group was established in 2003 by their mother, April Gaede, who was affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance. Their musical content actively promoted white supremacist ideology and Holocaust denial. The twins ceased touring around the age of 14 and subsequently disavowed these beliefs.
History
In an interview with Vice, the twins explained that their name reflected their German-American ancestry and referenced "Prussian blue," a term associated with Holocaust denial narratives. Their initial performance took place at the white nationalist event "Eurofest" in 2001. By 2002, they had acquired musical skills—Lamb played guitar while Lynx learned violin. That year, they appeared on VH1’s Inside Hate Rock, and in 2003 were featured in the BBC documentary Louis and the Nazis. Additionally, they acted in the low-budget film Dark Walker.
Their first album, Fragment of the Future (Resistance Records, 2004), combined acoustic folk-rock and bubblegum pop with lyrics promoting white supremacist views. Their second album, The Path We Chose (2005), shifted towards conventional rock and included more mainstream themes such as romantic relationships. In 2005, they toured across the United States and were critically examined on ABC’s Primetime during 2005 and 2006. A DVD titled Blonde Hair Blue Eyes was also released that year.
In 2006, the family moved to Kalispell, Montana, citing Bakersfield as insufficiently "white." This relocation prompted local resistance including protest flyers opposing their ideology. Some individuals distributing these materials received threatening correspondence from white supremacist groups. The Montana Human Rights Network organized a rally to counteract the family’s views.
During the summer of 2007, the twins toured Europe performing at white nationalist gatherings and appeared on the program The Political Cesspool. By early 2009, both their website and MySpace page were inactive.
Ideology
The duo maintained close connections with National Vanguard, a white nationalist organization founded by former National Alliance members. Mainstream media sources have characterized their beliefs as racist and white supremacist. Reports from The Daily Telegraph noted that they performed Nazi salutes during live shows.
According to ABC News, the twins were homeschooled by their mother April Gaede, who is an activist and writer for National Vanguard. Their maternal grandfather openly displayed Nazi insignia, including a swastika belt buckle and a branded cattle mark. In an ABC interview, the twins expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and minimized the significance of the Holocaust. They also attracted criticism after donating supplies to Hurricane Katrina victims on the condition that only white recipients could accept them; these donations were largely refused.
A 2011 profile in The Daily disclosed that after enrolling in public school and relocating to Montana, the twins renounced their previous ideology:
“I'm glad we were in the band,” Lynx reflected, “but we should have been guided toward something more mainstream and manageable than serving as figureheads for a belief system we didn’t fully grasp. We were just children.”
Despite this rejection, they maintained some doubts regarding certain aspects of the Holocaust.
By 2020, both twins identified as "pretty liberal," distancing themselves from their former views while expressing sympathy for their mother and acknowledging their earlier lack of understanding about contentious issues.
Lyrics and Influences
Approximately half of the tracks on Prussian Blue's debut album consist of renditions originally performed by other white pride groups, including one piece co-authored by David Lane and multiple compositions by Ian Stuart Donaldson. Among these covers is a song initially recorded by the racist band RaHoWa. Additionally, two original songs pay tribute to notable figures within Nazi and white nationalist circles.
Prussian Blue also issued a cover version of Brutal Attack's "Ocean of Warriors" in mp3 format, dedicating it to white individuals involved in the 2005 Sydney race riots. In 2006, the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) compiled an album entitled For The Fatherland, which included their music.
Media
The twins were featured in two British documentary films. The first, Louis and the Nazis (2003), directed by Louis Theroux, explored white nationalist groups and included Prussian Blue. The second documentary, Nazi Pop Twins (2007) by James Quinn, focused on conflicts between the twins and their mother, April. Within this film, Lynx and Lamb rejected their mother's racial beliefs and voiced intentions to pursue music without racial themes. Lynx characterized wearing T-shirts with smiley faces resembling Adolf Hitler as a prank and clarified that pride in being white did not imply racism. Louis Theroux later revisited their story in his book Call of the Weird.
In September 2020, the twins were again featured in Theroux's documentary Louis Theroux – Life on the Edge: Beyond Belief, aired on BBC Two, which chronicled their renunciation of racist ideology.
Albums
- Fragment of the Future (2004)
- The Path We Chose (2005)
- For the Fatherland (compilation, 2006)
Singles
- "Your Daddy"
- "Keepers of the Light" (Battlecry featuring Prussian Blue)
- "Stand Up"
- "I Will Bleed for You"