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to ast fall, the Southern
% Poverty Law Center,
\ the national anti-racist
M. organization, published
^ ^ a list of six men it
claimed to be the leaders of
a new generation of American
hatemongers.
There's J i m m y Miller, a skinhead
imprisoned for bombings in
Arizona; Alex Curtis, a San Diegan
convicted of harassing inter-racial
couples, n o w publisher of a white-
supremacist newspaper; Matt Hale,
once arrested for threatening three
black m e n with a g u n and n o w
pimp for the virulent World Church
of the Creator; Bruce Breeding,
crony of David D u k e and member
of the far-right National Alliance;
and Erich Gliebe, a National
Alliance organizer.
A n d then there's Portland's
Michael Moynihan, a 31-year-old
author and musician, w h o m the
SPLC describes as "a major purvey-
or of neo-Nazism, occult fascism
and international industrial and
black metal music."
T w o Sundays ago, as a gor-
geous summer evening faded to
black, Moynihan reclined on the
back patio of the M o o n &
Sixpence, an English-style p u b just
off Sandy Boulevard. H e sipped a
Guinness and considered the
notion that he is one of the most
dangerous m e n in America.
T h e s e guys have no idea
where to even begin," he says.
"They're out of their league. If
they would check with m e in the
course of their research, it would
be m u c h more difficult to spread
these lies."
Especially since last May, w h e n
neo-Nazism was initially (and
incorrectly) supposed to have
sparked the massacre at Columbine
High School, Moynihan has
become a favorite bete noire of
anti-racist activists. O n M a y 13,
1 9 9 9 , a n Oregonian guest editorial
by Robert Crawford, a member of
the Northwest Coalition for H u m a n
Dignity, declared, " w e believe that
the Portland leader of a metal
band, Blood Axis, a n d head of
Storm Publications, is a big player
in the effort to bring racism into
the metal scene locally." Joe
Conason, writing in Salon, alleged
that music and writing like
Moynihan's drives "dangers lurking
in dark, Nazi-worshiping corners of
alienated youth culture."
A booklet called Soundtracks to
the White Revolution, published in
November by the Seattle-based
Northwest Coalition, accused
Moynihan of spreading racism
through his music and writing,
particularly his 1998 book Lords of
Chaos, an examination of Norway's
violent "black metal" underground
that was praised by numerous
reviewers. (The book w o n a presti-
gious alternative-press award and
sold more than 2 0 , 0 0 0 copies.)
W h y do activists lump an
author and musician together with
convicted felons and active right-
wing organizers?
"Moynihan's inclusion on that
list is more emblematic of a differ-
ent section of the far right than an
" I d o n ' t see w h i t e people d o i n g a n y t h i n g particularly
n o b l e t h e s e days, so w h y on e a r t h w o u l d I be a w h i t e
supremacist?"
attempt to suggest that he's the
leader of any group," says Mark
Potok, the editor of the SPLC's
Intelligence Report. "He's an intel-
lectual leader."
The drumbeat m a y get louder.
This month, Feral House, publisher
of Lords of Chaos, released
Apocalypse Culture II, an antholo-
gy of extreme writing and art cer-
tain to be one of the most jarring
books published in America this
year. In its percolating stew of
strangeness, ACII contains oddball
actor Crispin Glover's denunciation
of Steven Spielberg ("Would the
culture benefit from Steven
Spielberg's murder?"), a short
story b y Ted Kaczynski and an
essay by one S. Epps, explaining
w h y white people are genetically
inferior to black people.
Moynihan helps translate some
Italian terrorist manifestos and an
essay by Finnish ecologist Pentii
Iinkola, w h o believes that only the
dismantling of modern society can
save the Earth. Moynihan also pro-
files the efforts of onetime Charles
M a n s o n associate and convicted
murderer Bobby Beausoleil to
adapt his formidable sexual
appetite to prison life.
If Apocalypse Culture II crosses
activists' desks, such strangeness
m a y join other evidence they cite
in their case against Moynihan:
Exhibit A : Quotes in obscure
fanzines, like one from No Longer
a Fanzine, circa '94: "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."
Exhibit B: Interest in Asatru, a
revival of Norse pagan spirituality.
S o m e forms of Asatru are champi-
oned by white supremacists,
although m a n y elements within
the movement vigorously oppose
such efforts. Moynihan also writes
for The Black Flame, the Church
of Satan's magazine, and inter-
viewed late COS founder Anton
LaVey twice.
Exhibit C: Blood Axis, his band,
well-regarded within a small exper-
imental scene in which a fascina-
tion with the forbidden is practi-
cally de rigueur. Blood Axis rarely
books clubs in the U S , but has
toured extensively in Europe.
Despite what some think, Blood
Axis is definitely not a heavy metal
band. Dark portents of classical,
folk, electronic and experimental
music swirl through band's sound.
Blot: Sacrifice in Sweden, the most
recent of the group's two albums,
runs hot with images of sacrifice,
A U G U S T 16, 2000
pagan gods, revolution and arcane
ritual, but contains no racist lyrics.
Still, the band's use of such con-
troversial material, not to mention
the Kruekenkreuz, an ancient
cross adopted by some Christian
Crusaders and Austrian national-
ists (but banned by the Nazis),
sparks leftist ire. Protests spurred
by socialist groups forced the can-
cellation of Blood Axis shows in
Seattle and San Francisco in 1998.
Exhibit D: Moynihan's small
hobby-level publishing company
and record label. Storm, carries
such "rare and heretical" items as
folk recordings by Charles Manson
(Manson and Moynihan had fre-
quent phone conversations for a
time, which later served as the
basis for an article by Moynihan)
and Siege, an anthology of rants
by James Mason, an ex-Nazi and
Mansonite. Siege has been out of
print for five years, and Moynihan
says he hasn't printed a Storm cat-
alogue in about as long.
Exhibit E: Lords of Chaos,
which Moynihan co-authored with
Norwegian journalist Didrik
S 0 d e r l i n d . Though m a n y praised
the book's exploration of a grim
variant of heavy metal that w o n
popularity among some Norwegian
kids, Moynihan's activist critics
slam the book's account of mur-
ders and arsons and the racism
espoused by some of the scene's
principals. Some call the book a
work of veiled propaganda.
Surveying this jihad against
him, Moynihan is frankly dismis-
sive. "They don't understand the
first thing about what I'm saying
or doing," he says. "They're con-
vinced that if society was run
according to their views, every-
body would be happy. I don't
think it's that simple."
That Moynihan has some
unusual ideas and interests is
clear. However, a deeper look into
his strange case creates serious
doubts about allegations that he's
a fascist bent on twisting under-
ground culture to his will. If you
actually talk to him, you, too,
might start thinking that it's not
that simple.
continued on page 27
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Members of Blood
Axis, with Moy-
No one from the Coalition or SPLC
has spoken with Moynihan. If they
did, they would find him an
ager. Trading hardcore punk for
the more transgressive aesthetics
of early industrial music, he played
FIRST-CUT; engaging and tireless talker who for a time with genre pioneers
nihan at center,
in Budapest,
Hungary. Inset: waxes decidedly pessimistic on the Sleep Chamber. He moved to
liner notes direction of modern society, but Belgium in the late '80s, hanging

IT'S FOR
from Blot. also exhibits a certain sardonic out with avant-garde artists and
humor, especially squatting in a fac-
The Northwest as far as his noto- tory. After return-
Coalition for riety is concerned. ing to the US, he
REAL. Human Dignity is
the product of a
merger between
the Northwest
He christened his
other band, a
dark-edged folk
roomed and collab-
orated with notori-
ous musician/
Coalition Against
group, Witch provocateur Boyd
Malicious Hunt; he adorns Rice—who actually
an envelope full of has called himself
No additives. Harassment and
the Coalition for recordings with a fascist—in
Human Dignity. sprightly "TEACH Denver before
No reprocessed The latter group TOLERANCE" stick- moving to Portland
was founded in ers. He recently told the venerable in 1995, in part to work with Feral
sheet tobacco
Portland in the punk magazine Flipside that his House. (The publisher has moved
late '80s.
membership in the "National Polite to LA; Moynihan has long since
People's Party" precludes any sym- stopped working with Rice.)
made from scraps. Apocalypse Culture
II has received
pathy with Nazis. There is no doubt that, as an
advance praise He moved to Portland in 1995 artist and thinker, Moynihan is rad-
Because from Portland rock and now shares, a house in ical. For starters, he rejects the idea
journalist and Northeast with his girlfriend, that society is evolving into pro-
100% first-cut poet Richard Blood Axis violinist Annabel Lee, gressively more enlightened forms.
Meltzer, National and their two dogs. He has a dis- That's where I part ways with
Public Radio's tinct fondness for good beer and all these political people," he says,
v tobacco naturally Andrei Codrescu
also sings the praises of absinthe, "whether they're the Marxist/
and Marilyn
which some friends of his distill. Communist/Socialist people who
tastes better. Manson, among
others.
He describes his circle as a diverse think that humans want to get
crew of artists, writers and musi- along on a grand scale, or whether
cians, mostly united by their it's the Nazis, who think that if
determination to stand against everyone was just of the same race,
conventional thought. they'd all get along perfectly, or the
"I know all kinds of strange anarchists, who think everyone
people," he says. "I've always would love to live this way if you
1

hung out with people who are real
outsiders or heretics."
A pair of local events illustrate
the wide swathe Moynihan and
friends cut through Portland's (for
lack of a better term) "alternative"
subcultures. At the end of July,
Witch Hunt played a kind of New
Age teach-in at Pioneer
Courthouse Square organized by
Jose Arguelles, a local writer who
believes he's decoded the ancient
13-month lunar calendar of the
Mayans. Last week, Moynihan and
Lee both played in an eclectic per-
NO B U L L formance-art cabaret at Berbati's
Pan, joining in on a Gypsy bur-
lesque song popularized by
Marlene Dietrich.
The Boston native has been
involved in underground music
and culture since he was a teen-
just took away the police.
"They're all deluded. People
should worry about what happens
on their block. They should get
along with their neighbors before
they worry about the great ills of
society and about telling someone
who lives 200 miles away what
to do."
He describes conventional poli-
tics as a parlor game played out to
19th-century rules while con-
sumerism paves the planet and
wipes out unique cultures. He says
he never votes. He says vast
nation-states are a ridiculous way
to organize society, and that a
tribal mosaic of small, tightly
bonded groups would better suit a
human nature he views as largely
unchanged from ancient times.
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Moynihan clutch-
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"The only realistic way I would

es the Firecracker want to deal with society is on
Award for Lords some sort of small level of people
of Chaos, pre-
who have something in common,
sented to him
by El Vez, the who look out for each other,"
"Mexican Elvis." he says.
Asked point-blank, Moynihan
Moynihan says he says he's not a neo-Nazi. He also
is not a member bashes white supremacy and
of any national fascism.
Asatru group, "I don't see white people doing
though he works anything particularly noble these
with a small days, so why on earth would I be a
"Asatru-oriented" white supremacist?" he says. "What
arts collective.
does fascism have to do with any-
thing that's going on? The far
right is a bunch of isolated losers.
I probably have far more in com-
mon with anarchists than I would
with any right-wing person, and
they would probably agree."
People who have encountered
Moynihan in Portland's indepen-
dent music and publishing scenes
have reached a rather different
conclusion about him than the
watchdog groups like the SPLC.
"Based on my work with the
subject of the far right, and my
dealings with Michael Moynihan,
none of these labels would consti-
tute a fair characterization," says
Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan, an American
cultural historian currently associ-
ated with the University of
Helsinki in Finland. Kaplan wrote
Radical Religion in America, a
well-regarded 1997 investigation of
fringe religions, including Asatru
and the extreme racism of
Christian Identity. Kaplan says he
made Moyriihan's acquaintance
while working on the book's sec-
tion on Asatru. He also says he
called some of the several errors of
fact in the SPLC's bio of Moynihan
Eudaly, owner of Reading Frenzy, Tejaratchi is also the half-Iranian to the attention of Intelligence
the downtown 'zine emporium that adopted son of a Jewish family. Report editor Potok.
hosted a standing-room-only read- "He's gone out of his way to help James Ridgeway, a Village Voice
ing by Moynihan shortly after me. If he turns out to be a high reporter who has covered extremist
Lords of Chaos came out. Eudaly commander of the evil racist politics for years and wrote Blood
says she's known Moynihan for forces, then hoo boy! There's going in the Face, a 1991 study of the far
about four years. "I wouldn't call to be egg on my face! I choose to right, praises Lords of Chaos as a
that fascist, I would call it elitist. I give more weight to my own expe- useful reference work. As for the
think that many people share the riences and observations than to SPLC's list, he says, "I don't know
same belief and act it out on a people who tell me that a good what the shit that was about."
daily basis but would never recog- friend of mine is a force of ulti- continued on next poge

"My most basic impression is nize it in themselves." mate darkness."

that he thinks some people are
better than others and the people
who are better should not have to
live according to the lowest com-
mon denominator," says Chloe
"Mike has been a very good Some academics and journalists
friend," says Sean Tejaratchi, the who've done extensive work on
Portland graphic artist who radical politics and religion also
designed Lords of Chaos in close feel that damnations of Moynihan
collaboration with Moynihan. may be off-base.

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Moynihan has said some things

out any one group for this sort of
treatment, because I've never
made such a comment about any-
one, ever."
kreuz, symbol
that, at first glance at least, are
of Crusaders and
pretty outrageous. There's As the old pulp-fiction
MONARCH DUVET Austrians, now
serves as Blood his suggestion that a new cliche goes, no one knows
Axis' logo. Some Holocaust under his direc- what evil lurks in the hearts
/w/if (9</a//a/a £)ow/i call it swastika- tion might be more of men. But inso-
like, but it was
freeform than the far as it can be
banned by the
Baffle-box duvet filled witk Third Reich.
Third Reich's, for said of anyone, it
example. can be said that
7 0 0 f i l l - p o w e r h y { > o a l l e r g e n i c goose d o w n . "That's the big Moyriihan's not
Blood Axis' Blot: one," he says. "A a neo-Nazi. And
S o u t k e r n , C l a s s i c or A r c t i c weights. Sacrifice in
lot of these attacks stem the idea that he's an agent
Sweden, is avail-
from that one quote, basi (or organizer) of a nebulous
able at Ozone and
QUEEN CLASSIC ^ / I P other local record
cally." far-right conspiracy looks
A close reading of the quote a little shaky.
KING CLASSIC M 7 2 stores, and from
the label Cold reveals it to be general misan- The research presented by his
Meat Industry: thropy rather than specific big- critics is mostly based on quotes in
www.coldmeat.se otry. Last fall, Moynihan told Eye old fanzines and outfield websites,
that he is not a Holocaust revi- and is thus built on quicksand.
sionist. More crucially, he notes Even as such, it neglects most of

IFRENCH QUARTER
that the quote has been lifted the voluminous material by and
from its original place in an under- about Moynihan that's been printed
ground subculture, where all in 'zines, newspapers and journals.
brands of radicalism are bandied While the activists argue that
about, and held up as a serious they're just presenting their side of
/axu-zy/at /As 6e</. Art/A wt</ 6ody
political statement. the story, there's no question that
"This is in response to a ques- their slickly printed reports, widely
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sort of incendiary statement," he
says. "I'm not calling for singling
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people to research Native American
culture, or Far Eastern culture, or
whatever. I encourage everyone to
Lords of Chaos won Moynihan's name figured in a num- find out as much as they can
a 1998 Firecracker ber of newspaper articles that did about their heritage."
Alternative Press not include any comment from him. Those who criticize him on
Award for music
"Once you get stuck with that political grounds, he says, really
writing. Other
Firecracker hon-
Nazi tag, it never comes off," lose him.
orees include left-
Moynihan says. "Putting an editor- "These people are worried
ist historian ial like that in The Oregonian, about some skinhead takeover?"
Howard Zinn and filled with misrepresentations, has he says. "It's not like the average
Zapatista leader serious implications for someone black person in America, or some-
Subcommandante who has to live and work in one in Thailand or Tibet, is really
Marcos. Moynihan Portland. People lose their jobs threatened by skinheads. What
and S 0 d e r l i n d are over that sort of thing." they're threatened by is a global
preparing a
Moynihan does take America's corporate monoculture that's really
German edition.
traditional fascination with the going to divest them of power and
strange to a deeper level of destroy their culture. Not to sound
"I feel perfectly
comfortable sell-
inquiry. You could trace this like some progressive type or any-
ing Blood Axis,"
national tendency back at least as thing, but I actually do support
says Janelle far as Edgar Allen Poe, and detect the idea of a diversity of human ,
Janosz, owner of it, in debased form, in the serial- groups surviving on earth.
Ozone Records. killer T-shirts sported by suburban Different cultural traditions make
Janosz doesn't metalheads. His writing examines the world interesting. In the
carry bands such people far beyond the borders of United States, you have homoge-
as infamous the mainstream. Blood Axis' allu- nous consumerism. Everyone buys
English Nazi bone- sions to a pagan past and its use the same clothes at the mall no
heads Skrewdriver.
of Nordic, Germanic and Celtic ele- matter what their heritage is.
"I've never seen
any reason not to
ments definitely contrast with That's a far more immediate threat
carry his band."
both bubble«-gum pop and sword- to racial justice or identity than
and-sorcery metal. anything emanating from neo-
"I make no apology about my Nazis."
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