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BYZACH DUNDAS 08-16-2000 strangeness, ACII contains oddball pagan gods, revolution and arcane to ast fall, the Southern actor Crispin Glover's denunciation ritual, but contains no racist lyrics. of Steven Spielberg ("Would the Still, the band's use of such con- % Poverty Law Center, culture benefit from Steven troversial material, not to mention Spielberg's murder?"), a short the Kruekenkreuz, an ancient \ the national anti-racist story by Ted Kaczynski and an cross adopted by some Christian essay by one S. Epps, explaining Crusaders and Austrian national- M. organization, published why white people are genetically ists (but banned by the Nazis), inferior to black people. sparks leftist ire. Protests spurred ^^ a list of six men it Moynihan helps translate some by socialist groups forced the can- Italian terrorist manifestos and an cellation of Blood Axis shows in claimed to be the leaders of essay by Finnish ecologist Pentii Seattle and San Francisco in 1998. Iinkola, who believes that only the Exhibit D: Moynihan's small a new generation of American dismantling of modern society can hobby-level publishing company save the Earth. Moynihan also pro- and record label. Storm, carries hatemongers. files the efforts of onetime Charles such "rare and heretical" items as Manson associate and convicted folk recordings by Charles Manson murderer Bobby Beausoleil to (Manson and Moynihan had fre-

There's Jimmy Miller, a skinhead band, Blood Axis, and head of adapt his formidable sexual quent phone conversations for a imprisoned for bombings in Storm Publications, is a big player appetite to prison life. time, which later served as the Arizona; Alex Curtis, a San Diegan in the effort to bring into If Apocalypse Culture II crosses basis for an article by Moynihan) convicted of harassing inter-racial the metal scene locally." Joe activists' desks, such strangeness and Siege, an anthology of rants couples, now publisher of a white- Conason, writing in Salon, alleged may join other evidence they cite by , an ex-Nazi and supremacist newspaper; Matt Hale, that music and writing like in their case against Moynihan: Mansonite. Siege has been out of once arrested for threatening three Moynihan's drives "dangers lurking Exhibit A: Quotes in obscure print for five years, and Moynihan black men with a gun and now in dark, Nazi-worshiping corners of fanzines, like one from No Longer says he hasn't printed a Storm cat- pimp for the virulent World Church alienated youth culture." a Fanzine, circa '94: "The number alogue in about as long. of the Creator; Bruce Breeding, A booklet called Soundtracks to of six million [Jews killed in the Exhibit E: Lords of Chaos, crony of and member the White Revolution, published in Holocaust] is just arbitrary and which Moynihan co-authored with of the far-right National Alliance; November by the Seattle-based inaccurate.... If I were given the Norwegian journalist Didrik and Erich Gliebe, a National Northwest Coalition, accused opportunity to start up the next S0derlind. Though many praised Alliance organizer. Moynihan of spreading racism Holocaust, I would definitely have the book's exploration of a grim And then there's Portland's through his music and writing, more lenient entry requirements variant of heavy metal that won Michael Moynihan, a 31-year-old particularly his 1998 book Lords of than the Nazis." popularity among some Norwegian author and musician, whom the Chaos, an examination of Norway's Exhibit B: Interest in Asatru, a kids, Moynihan's activist critics SPLC describes as "a major purvey- violent "" underground revival of Norse pagan spirituality. slam the book's account of mur- or of neo-, occult fascism that was praised by numerous Some forms of Asatru are champi- ders and arsons and the racism and international industrial and reviewers. (The book won a presti- oned by white supremacists, espoused by some of the scene's black metal music." gious alternative-press award and although many elements within principals. Some call the book a Two Sundays ago, as a gor- sold more than 20,000 copies.) the movement vigorously oppose work of veiled propaganda. geous summer evening faded to Why do activists lump an such efforts. Moynihan also writes Surveying this jihad against black, Moynihan reclined on the author and musician together with for The Black Flame, the Church him, Moynihan is frankly dismis- back patio of the Moon & convicted felons and active right- of Satan's magazine, and inter- sive. "They don't understand the Sixpence, an English-style pub just wing organizers? viewed late COS founder Anton first thing about what I'm saying off Sandy Boulevard. He sipped a "Moynihan's inclusion on that LaVey twice. or doing," he says. "They're con- Guinness and considered the list is more emblematic of a differ- Exhibit C: Blood Axis, his band, vinced that if society was run notion that he is one of the most ent section of the far right than an well-regarded within a small exper- according to their views, every- dangerous men in America. body would be happy. I don't

These guys have no idea think it's that simple." where to even begin," he says. "I don't see white people doing anything particularly That Moynihan has some "They're out of their league. If unusual ideas and interests is noble these days, so why on earth would I be a white they would check with me in the clear. However, a deeper look into course of their research, it would supremacist?" his strange case creates serious be much more difficult to spread doubts about allegations that he's these lies." a fascist bent on twisting under- attempt to suggest that he's the imental scene in which a fascina- ground culture to his will. If you Especially since last May, when leader of any group," says Mark tion with the forbidden is practi- actually talk to him, you, too, neo-Nazism was initially (and Potok, the editor of the SPLC's cally de rigueur. Blood Axis rarely might start thinking that it's not incorrectly) supposed to have Intelligence Report. "He's an intel- books clubs in the US, but has that simple. sparked the massacre at Columbine lectual leader." toured extensively in Europe. continued on page 27 High School, Moynihan has The drumbeat may get louder. Despite what some think, Blood become a favorite bete noire of This month, Feral House, publisher Axis is definitely not a heavy metal anti-racist activists. On May 13, of Lords of Chaos, released band. Dark portents of classical, 1999, an Oregonian guest editorial Apocalypse Culture II, an antholo- folk, electronic and experimental by Robert Crawford, a member of gy of extreme writing and art cer- music swirl through band's sound. the Northwest Coalition for Human tain to be one of the most jarring Blot: Sacrifice in Sweden, the most Dignity, declared, "we believe that books published in America this recent of the group's two albums, the Portland leader of a metal year. In its percolating stew of runs hot with images of sacrifice,

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Heretics on tour: No one from the Coalition or SPLC ager. Trading hardcore punk for 100% Members of Blood has spoken with Moynihan. If they the more transgressive aesthetics Axis, with Moy- nihan at center, did, they would find him an of early industrial music, he played in Budapest, engaging and tireless talker who for a time with genre pioneers FIRST-CUT; 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 from Blot. also exhibits a certain sardonic out with avant-garde artists and humor, especially squatting in a fac- IT'S FOR The Northwest as far as his noto- tory. After return- Coalition for riety is concerned. ing to the US, he Human Dignity is the product of a He christened his roomed and collab- REAL. merger between other band, a orated with notori- the Northwest dark-edged folk ous musician/ Coalition Against group, Witch provocateur Boyd Malicious Hunt; he adorns Rice—who actually Harassment and an envelope full of has called himself No additives. 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 Portland in the punk magazine Flipside that his House. (The publisher has moved sheet tobacco 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 and Marilyn also sings the praises of absinthe, "whether they're the Marxist/ Manson, among which some friends of his distill. Communist/Socialist people who tastes better. 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 would1 love to live this way if you hung out with people who are real just took away the police. outsiders or heretics." "They're all deluded. People A pair of local events illustrate should worry about what happens the wide swathe Moynihan and on their block. They should get friends cut through Portland's (for along with their neighbors before lack of a better term) "alternative" they worry about the great ills of subcultures. At the end of July, society and about telling someone Witch Hunt played a kind of New who lives 200 miles away what Age teach-in at Pioneer to do." Courthouse Square organized by He describes conventional poli- Jose Arguelles, a local writer who tics as a parlor game played out to believes he's decoded the ancient 19th-century rules while con- 13-month lunar calendar of the sumerism paves the planet and Mayans. Last week, Moynihan and wipes out unique cultures. He says Lee both played in an eclectic per- he never votes. He says vast NO BULL formance-art cabaret at Berbati's nation-states are a ridiculous way Pan, joining in on a Gypsy bur- to organize society, and that a lesque song popularized by tribal mosaic of small, tightly Marlene Dietrich. bonded groups would better suit a The Boston native has been human nature he views as largely involved in underground music unchanged from ancient times. and culture since he was a teen- continued on page 29

AUGUST 16, 2000 COVER STORY WW NEWS 27 "Based on my work with the CHAOS subject of the far right, and my ® CONTINUED FROM PACE 27 dealings with Michael Moynihan, Moynihan clutch- "The only realistic way I would none of these labels would consti- es the Firecracker want to deal with society is on tute a fair characterization," says Award for Lords of Chaos, pre- some sort of small level of people Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan, an American sented to him who have something in common, cultural historian currently associ- by El Vez, the who look out for each other," ated with the University of "Mexican Elvis." he says. Helsinki in Finland. Kaplan wrote Asked point-blank, Moynihan Radical Religion in America, a Moynihan says he says he's not a neo-Nazi. He also well-regarded 1997 investigation of is not a member bashes and fringe religions, including Asatru of any national fascism. and the extreme racism of Asatru group, "I don't see white people doing . Kaplan says he though he works anything particularly noble these made Moyriihan's acquaintance with a small days, so why on earth would I be a while working on the book's sec- "Asatru-oriented" white supremacist?" he says. "What tion on Asatru. He also says he arts collective. does fascism have to do with any- called some of the several errors of thing that's going on? The far fact in the SPLC's bio of Moynihan right is a bunch of isolated losers. Eudaly, owner of Reading Frenzy, Tejaratchi is also the half-Iranian to the attention of Intelligence I probably have far more in com- the downtown 'zine emporium that adopted son of a Jewish family. Report editor Potok. mon with anarchists than I would hosted a standing-room-only read- "He's gone out of his way to help James Ridgeway, a Village Voice with any right-wing person, and ing by Moynihan shortly after me. If he turns out to be a high reporter who has covered extremist they would probably agree." Lords of Chaos came out. Eudaly commander of the evil racist politics for years and wrote Blood People who have encountered says she's known Moynihan for forces, then hoo boy! There's going in the Face, a 1991 study of the far Moynihan in Portland's indepen- about four years. "I wouldn't call to be egg on my face! I choose to right, praises Lords of Chaos as a dent music and publishing scenes that fascist, I would call it elitist. I give more weight to my own expe- useful reference work. As for the have reached a rather different think that many people share the riences and observations than to SPLC's list, he says, "I don't know conclusion about him than the same belief and act it out on a people who tell me that a good what the shit that was about." watchdog groups like the SPLC. 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 "Mike has been a very good Some academics and journalists better than others and the people friend," says Sean Tejaratchi, the who've done extensive work on who are better should not have to Portland graphic artist who radical politics and religion also live according to the lowest com- designed Lords of Chaos in close feel that damnations of Moynihan mon denominator," says Chloe collaboration with Moynihan. may be off-base.

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AUGUST 16. 2000 COVER STORY WW NEWS 29 out any one group for this sort of CHAOS treatment, because I've never ® CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUPREVK S PAGE made such a comment about any- ^axuzy £De/mecl: The Krueken- Moynihan has said some things one, ever." kreuz, symbol that, at first glance at least, are of Crusaders and pretty outrageous. There's As the old pulp-fiction Austrians, now MONARCH DUVET 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 (9oallergenic goose down. "That's the big Moyriihan's not Blood Axis' Blot: one," he says. "A a neo-Nazi. And Soutkern, Classic or Arctic 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 cally." far-right conspiracy looks QUEEN CLASSIC ^/IP other local record A close reading of the quote a little shaky. KING CLASSIC M72 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 that the quote has been lifted the voluminous material by and from its original place in an under- about Moynihan that's been printed IFRENCH QUARTER 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(>l('l'I.AM) 114 1 NK HIIOAIIWAY 28a-N2»(> tion from a snotty 15-year-old distributed to journalists and law enforcement, have a rather unbal- I'KAIII, DISTKKT 5.1(1 \W I4TII AT HOYT 2a.J-3H7i) punk rocker, and that's the spirit in which it was answered with this anced impact. In the wake of KtTOKNK KIKTII STKKKT I'l'HI.K' .MAIIKKT 54 14 :»-«!»04 sort of incendiary statement," he Soundtracks, for example, says. "I'm not calling for singling •( please explore our catalog at www.eurolinens.com } continued on page 32

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30 01-16-2000 @CHAOS people to research Native American CONTINUED FROM PAGE JO 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 writing. Other "Once you get stuck with that political grounds, he says, really 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 S0derlind 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

"I feel perfectly strange to a deeper level of destroy their culture. Not to sound 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 . "I've never seen of Nordic, Germanic and Celtic ele- matter what their heritage is. 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." interest in European culture," Beer Garden, Food & Music at the Moynihan says. "Europe is my spir- Joinery Stage itual homeland. I'll leave to other

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32 08-16-2000 Season of the Certainly, a serious consideration Witch: Moynihan of Moynihan takes you into rocky and Annabel Lee terrain, where many of the play with Witch Hunt in Pioneer assumptions of mainstream politics Square in July. and culture are either irrelevant or under assault. At the same time, who hasn't looked at the plastic sprawl of cur- rent pop culture and wished for something a little more intense, intimate and immediate? Who has- n't spent at least a few moments considering some of the darker corners of human experience? Who hasn't said things or entertained notions that could offend? Aren't artists, under a cultural mandate as old as the West, supposed to rub salt into society's wounds? There's no doubt that some aspects of Moynihan's work are

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