Panzerfaust Records was founded in 1998 by Anthony Pierpont, Ed Wolbank and Eric Davidson.[4][3] The organization had ties to a number of other groups, including Hammerskin Nation[2] (the "largest [US] skinhead group"[5]), Volksfront and White Revolution.[3] In 2003, Bryant Cecchini, aka Byron Calvert, joined the company.[2]
In 2004, the label launched Project Schoolyard, a United States-wide campaign to distribute free Panzerfaust sampler CDs to middle school and high school students.[6] In response, schools were notified and in some districts, CDs were confiscated or voluntarily turned over by students.[7][8] The anti-fascist record label Insurgence Records responded by offering a free downloadable compilation called Project Boneyard.[9]
Panzerfaust Records shut down in early 2005 after the arrest of Pierpont for drug possession upon returning from a sex tourism trip to Thailand,[10][11] and the emergence of evidence that Pierpont was of Hispanic descent and had dated transgender individuals and non-white women.[4][12][13] The company was reorganized without Pierpont to become Free Your Mind Productions but disbanded for good shortly after.[3] Pierpont has since supposedly moved away from racism and the white power movement.[14]
As of January 27, 2005, the Panzerfaust website was no longer operating.[15]
^ abcdSimi, Pete; Futrell, Robert (2015). American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 80. ISBN978-1-4422-4136-7.
