Michael Moynihan

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Michael Moynihan at a concert by his band Blood Axis , 2016

Michael Moynihan (born  January 17, 1969 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American musician , publisher and journalist . Due to his work, he is assigned to a neo-pagan - esoteric , right-wing counterculture with points of reference to positions of the New Right and fascist ideologues .

music

Moynihan was involved in the industrial / experimental project Coup de Grâce from 1984 . He was also a member of the techno band Slave State. By his own admission, he was a skinhead at the time . In 1989 he founded the group Blood Axis with Robert Ferbrache (including 16 Horsepower , Slim Cessna's Auto Club , Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots , Tarantella ) , and he is still the head of the group and is mostly the sole musician to this day. In 1995 the debut album The Gospel of Inhumanity was released . While the early works of Blood Axis still sounded extremely martial with strong psychedelic elements, the band, which now includes Moynihan's partner Annabel Lee , is increasingly using folk elements.

In 1988 Moynihan came into contact with Boyd Rice, and in 1989 he performed with him at a performance in Osaka, where he took over the drums. The set with drummers reminiscent of the Hitler Youth and Nazi symbols (including SS skulls) was the model for the music video for This is the new (s) hit by Marilyn Manson , which used less biased symbols. Rice became Moynihan's mentor in the early 1990s. Both were close to Anton Szandor LaVey of the Church of Satan and shared an interest in fascism , National Socialism , Charles Manson and militant, anti-Christian neo-paganism . Charles Manson told in the song Lord, now let in peace of The Gospel of Inhumanity his story. His contact and occasional visits to Manson's prison resulted in surveillance by American intelligence. Moynihan worked on Boyd Rice's album Music, Martinis and Misantrophy with Douglas Pearce from the group Death in June . He also worked with the groups All Souls , Changes, Les Joyaux de la Princesse , In Gowan Ring , Cotton Ferox , Backworld , Fire + Ice , Slim Cessna's Auto Club and the Church of Satan's affiliated The Electric Hellfire Club .

Editorial and journalistic activity

In 1988 Moynihan brought out a bibliophile English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist with illustrations by Trevor Brown . In 1992 he published the collected writings of the American neo-Nazi and Charles Manson supporter James N. Mason in his publishing house Storm Books under the title Siege . This publisher also took over the US distribution of Gaddafi's Green Book .

Another of his publishers, Dominion Press, has published books by a wide variety of radical thinkers. Including an edition about Karl Maria Wiligut with collected writings, a book by the surrealist artist Hans Bellmer , collected writings by Joscelyn Godwin , a collection of essays by the English esotericist John Michell , and a book by Julius Evola , published together with Inner Traditions.

The book Lords of Chaos , written together with the Norwegian journalist Didrik Søderlind, became particularly well-known , a story mainly of Norwegian Black Metal , with an emphasis on the crimes linked to this, such as the murder of the musician Euronymous von Mayhem by Varg Vikernes von Burzum .

Moynihan conducted interviews for various music magazines, especially Seconds , with Charles Manson, Quorthon from Bathory , William Bennett from Whitehouse , Michael Gira from the Swans , and Peter Steele from Type O Negative , among others . His interview with Steele was published in German by Junge Freiheit .

Essays and contributions by Moynihan have appeared in:

  • Plexus - A National Socialist Theoretical Journal - a US neo-Nazi journal
  • The Scorpion - a British new right magazine
  • Before Trú - the magazine of the neo-pagan group Ásatrú Alliance
  • Filosofem - a neo-pagan-neo-Nazi French magazine to which Varg Vikernes, David Myatt , Kerry Bolton , Magus Wampyr Daoloth and Vidar von Herske also contributed
  • Hagal - the magazine of the new right working group Synergon Germany (meanwhile German-European Study Society ), published by Zeitwende publishing house
  • Apocalypse Culture II - an anthology of countercultural essays edited by Adam Parfrey
  • The Black Flame - Magazine of the Church of Satan

Moynihan is co-editor of the neo-pagan magazine TYR: Myth, Culture, Tradition and runs Dominion Press.

Ideological classification and quotations

In his youth Moynihan obtained a revolutionary communist pamphlet, shortly afterwards he obtained information on the NSDAP-AO .

The filmmaker, author and musician Rüdiger Sünner regards Moynihan despite or because of his “carefree flirting with war, blood and violence” as a “'guru' of neo-pagan and right-wing esotericism ”. He nostalgically glorifies a Celtic and Germanic past with its myths, values ​​such as honor, truthfulness, sacrifice, hierarchy and a conception of existence in which “fight and war are accepted as natural obstacles on the way to higher development.” Against the superficiality of a fun and consumer culture, he looks for archaic feelings and beliefs. In contrast to the Christian, democratic-humanistic canon of values, he worships the Germanic storm god Odin and is a follower of the ancient Persian Mithras religion. Following Nietzsche's successor, he sees himself as a lonely researcher “beyond good and evil” and also refers to the ariosophist Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and the SS brigade leader and, according to Moynihan, the only real occultist among the more important persons of the Third Reich, Karl Maria Wiligut .

Moynihan's openly expressed interest in extreme ideas made him one of the most controversial figures in industrial and post-industrial culture alongside Boyd Rice. At least in the mid-1990s he openly supported the new right and neo-fascist positions: “I respect many ideas of the 'New Right' and the Third Position . The people I met and who are involved in these groups (Junge Freiheit, Orion, Aurora, The Scorpion, Vouloir, Lutte du Peuple) are all exceptionally intelligent and outgoing. I hope they will continue to gain influence for the European future. ”Compared to The Golem, however, Moynihan stated that he hated politics and had never been a member of any political group. The left-wing cultural scientist and author Alexander Nym describes the members of Moynihan's band Blood Axis as " hippies " who play folk music. Moynihan's right-wing phase was limited to his “preoccupation with the esoteric foundations of the Nazi era in the early to mid-1990s”. In his assessment, Moynihan was "one of the anarchist [P] east industrial artists [...] who were hip at the time, the politically correct everyday Nazis - that is, censors and concerned philistines as well as the alleged ' alternative culture ' - in the US to provoke the specter of Nazi Satanism ”.

Moynihan is an admirer of Ernst Jünger , Julius Evola and Leni Riefenstahl .

He is a member of the neo-pagan group Ásatrú . LaVey also accepted him into the Church of Satan, but Moynihan does not see himself as a Satanist as he does not believe in the existence of Satan .

Quotes

  • Moynihan on the question of the magazine The Heretic from Kerry Bolton , why he is rather called a fascist than a "Nazi" / National Socialist:

"I think the main problem of the National Socialists today is their centering their entire worldview around a dead idol, namely Hitler. This isn't to say there aren't valid ideas there, but I don't think a Hitler cult is going to achieve anything or have any serious resonance outside of a small band of fetishists. Fascism is less connected to a specific personality, thus more open ended. I wouldn't say it encompasses my worldview, but it's a step in the right direction. "

  • When asked whether his concept of fascism includes racism, in the same interview:

“Any honest, thinking person will admit that race affects reality. I am certainly racially aware, and my feelings and experiences are confirmed on a daily basis. "

  • And again in the same interview, when asked how he would view the libertarian currents that - alongside the fascist ones - move in Satanism and the Church of Satan:

"As for the libertarianism, I have no sympathy for it."

  • He told Fanzine Compulsion :

"If fascism gives this world back a sense of order, discipline and responsibility, I am absolutely for it."

  • His most notorious and most cited statement when asked about the Holocaust was made to No Longer a FANzine around 1994 :

“The number of six million [Jews killed in the Holocaust] is just arbitrary and inaccurate […]. If I were given the opportunity to start up the next Holocaust, I would definitely have more lenient entry requirements than the Nazis. "

  • Based on the reactions to this statement, Moynihan felt compelled to express itself more moderately. Burkhard Schröder, for example, called him a “notorious Holocaust denier ”, especially because of the first sentence . In a later interview with Willamette Week magazine (circa 1999/2000) he stated:

"The only realistic way I would want to deal with society is on some sort of small level of people who have something in common, who look out for each other [...] I don't see white people doing anything particularly noble these days, so why on earth would I be a white supremacist? [...] What does fascism have to do with anything that's going on? The far right is a bunch of isolated losers. I probably have far more in common with anarchists than I would with any right-wing person, and they would probably agree. "

Discography

As a coup de grace

  • Commencement / Corpse Education (cassette, 1984)
  • Anthems for Doomed Youth (cassette, 1985)
  • Coup de Grace over Europe (cassette, 1986)

With sleep chamber

  • Babylon (Maxi, 1986)
  • Live at the Pallace Roads Theater (tape, 1986)
  • Live at the Rat Club 12:18:85 (tape, 1986)
  • Spellbound Submission (1991)

With NON

  • Total War: Live in Osaka, Japan (1989)
  • Music, Martinis and Misanthropy (1989)
  • In the Shadow of the Sword (1991)

With Blood Axis

Other Projects

  • Hands To: Decesh (1988)
  • Changes: Fire of Life (Mastering, 1996)
  • Fire + Ice : Live at the Hollywood Moguls (VHS, 1997)
  • Backworld : Anthems from the Pleasure Park (1999)
  • Fire + Ice: Birdking (2000)
  • Waldteufel: Secret Germany (2000)
  • Cotton Ferox: First Time Hurts (2002)
  • In Gowan Ring : Hazel Steps Though a Weathered Home (2002)
  • Changes: Orphan in the Storm (2004)
  • Changes: Twilight (EP, 2005)
  • In Gowan Ring: Exists and Entrances (2CD, 2007)
  • The Lindbergh Baby: Hoodwinked (2007)

Book publications

  • Siege: The Collected Writings of James Mason. James N. Mason, edited and introduced by Moynihan
  • Lords of Chaos : The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground , Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind, Feral House 1998 (German: Lords of Chaos. Satanic Metal: The bloody rise from the underground. Prophecy Production 2002.)
  • The Secret King: Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lord of the Runes , edited by Moynihan, Dominion Press, 2001 ( ISBN 0-9712044-0-3 )
  • Introduction to Magic: Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus , Julius Evola and the UR Group, edited by Moynihan ( ISBN 0-89281-624-4 )
  • Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist , Julius Evola, edited by Moynihan ( ISBN 0-89281-905-7 )
  • Apocalypse Culture II , edited by Adam Parfrey, with the assistance of Moynihan, ( ISBN 0-922915-57-1 )
  • The Book of Lies , edited by Richard Metzger, with assistance from Moynihan, ( ISBN 0-9713942-7-X )

literature

  • Andreas Diesel, Dieter Gerten: Blood Axis. In: Looking For Europe . Neofolk and Background , pp. 175–188. Prophecy Production 2005. ( ISBN 3-936878-02-1 )
  • Rüdiger Sunner: Neo-paganism in esoteric groups, pop music and recent poetry . In: Black Sun - Unleashing and Abuse of Myths in National Socialism and Right Esotericism . Herder-Verlag 2001. ( ISBN 3-451-05205-9 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "[...] Michael Moynihan, a right-wing US industrial musician [...]" Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : Black Sun. Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press 2002, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 , p. 71.
  2. ^ "Moynihan's own involvement in the counter-cultural right-wing underground [...]." Jeffrey M. Bale: 'National Revolutionary' groupuscules and the resurgence of 'left-wing' fascism: the case of France's Nouvelle Résistance. in: Roger Griffin, Matthew Feldman (Eds.): Fascism. Critical Concepts in Political Science. Taylor & Francis 2004, ISBN 0-415-29020-1 , p. 292.
  3. ↑ "[...] Michael Moynihan, who caused a sensation [...] with his combination of Dark Wave, German faith, New Rights and the glorification of National Socialism." Eduard Gugenberger: Boten der Apocalypse. Ueberreuter Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-8000-3840-4 , p. 110.
  4. ↑ "[...] Michael Moynihan, an esoteric right-wing extremist [...]" Dietmar Dath: The most powerful fire - the war fantasy as the nucleus of modernity and countermodernism in pop and / and avant-garde. in: testcard - contributions to pop history . # 9 - Pop and War , ISBN 3-931555-08-9 , p. 73.
  5. ^ Wulfing One: The Storm Before the Calm . An interview with Blood Axis .
  6. ↑ a b c d e BLOOD AXIS . AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MOYNIHAN . In: The Heretic , No. 10, October 1994.
  7. ^ Christian Dornbusch: From Landsertrummeln and noise orgies. Death in June and collaborators . In: Andreas Speit: Aesthetic Mobilization. Dark Wave, Neofolk and Industrial in the field of tension of right-wing ideologies. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-804-9 , pp. 145f.
  8. ↑ a b A neurechtes British periodical by Michael Walker, the national revolutionary , conservative-revolutionary contains anti-Jewish and neo-fascist position. Compare: Tamir Bar-On: Where have all the fascists gone? Ashgate Publishing 2007, ISBN 0-7546-7154-2 , p. 121.
  9. ^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Black Sun. Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press 2002, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 , p. 262.
  10. ^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Black Sun. Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press 2002, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 , p. 204.
  11. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer : The New Right in Germany. ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Interior Ministry of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2003, p. 84.
  12. ^ A b c Zach Dundas: Lord of Chaos ( Memento June 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  13. ↑ Rüdiger Sünner: Black Sun: Unleashing and Abuse of Myths in National Socialism and Right Esotericism . Herder, Freiburg, 1999, ISBN 3-451-05205-9 , p. 200, the following p. 197ff.
  14. ↑ Michael Jenknins Moynihan: All art is propaganda . Interview in Sigill , No. 14, 1997. Quoted from R. Sünner, p. 197.
  15. ^ A b c Silke Ecks, Frank Cebulla: Interview with Michael Moynihan. Musician, writer, publisher and co-author of the book "Lords of Chaos". (No longer available online.) The Golem, archived from the original on May 18, 2011 ; Retrieved June 11, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.golem-net.de
  16. ↑ An Italian, neo-fascist and national Bolshevik magazine by Marco Battera. See: Martin A. Lee: The Beast Reawakens. Taylor & Francis 1999, ISBN 0-415-92546-0 , p. 480.
  17. ↑ A magazine of the Belgian New Right. Compare: Tamir Bar-On: Where have all the fascists gone? Ashgate Publishing 2007, ISBN 0-7546-7154-2 , p. 143.
  18. ^ The organ of the French national revolutionary organization of the same name of right-wing extremist Christian Bouchet. See Jeffrey M. Bale: 'National Revolutionary' groupuscules and the resurgence of 'left-wing' fascism: the case of France's Nouvelle Résistance. in: Roger Griffin, Matthew Feldman (Eds.): Fascism. Critical Concepts in Political Science. Taylor & Francis 2004, ISBN 0-415-29020-1 , pp. 272f.
  19. ↑ Various interview excerpts
  20. ^ Daniel Thalheim: Controversy even before the performance: Neofolk band Blood Axis live on August 20 in Leipziger Theaterfabrik ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  21. ^ Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research
  22. ↑ Compulsion , No. 3, 1998.
  23. ↑ Burkard Schröder: Nazis are pop. Espresso Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 82.

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personal data
SURNAME Moynihan, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician, publisher, and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , United States