ABSTRACT
Out of the ferment of the punk rock explosion of the late 1970s came new genres like industrial and neofolk music. Along with this was also a new publishing culture, which included fanzines and independent presses that specialized in unconventional material. In the 1980s, this led to the “extreme culture” scene, which fetishized a variety of fringe and taboo things like conspiracy theories, Satanism, Nazism, and serial killers (particularly Charles Manson). Four members of this scene—Adam Parfrey, Boyd Rice, Michael Moynihan, and Nikolas Schreck—were members of a paper “occult-fascist think tank” called the Abraxas Foundation, which promoted reactionary and discredited ideas like Social Darwinism. Dubbed the “Abraxas Clique,” the four attempted to create a fascist counterculture. They would have a profound influence on James Mason’s future trajectory and the creation of the anthology Siege.
