ABSTRACT
Michael Moynihan was a musician, writer, editor, book publisher, and record label owner who edited and published James Mason’s Siege. Moynihan started out as an industrial musician recording under the name Coup De Grace and later collaborated with Boyd Rice. After Rice introduced him to Mason, Moynihan agreed to edit SIEGE into a book and publish it, which he did in 1993.
Although never openly admitting to being a neo-Nazi, Moynihan strongly implied that he was one while working on Siege. He drew swastikas in the letters he wrote to Mason, acted as a representative of Mason’s pseudo-group Universal Order, and was connected to other neo-Nazis. Moynihan’s 1994 statement that “given the opportunity to start up the next Holocaust I would definitely have much more lenient entrance requirements than the Nazis did” would follow him around. After his industrial music phase, Moynihan started playing neo-folk music under the name Blood Axis. In 1998, he co-authored the book Lords of Chaos about the Norwegian black metal movement. Published on Adam Parfrey’s Feral House press, it became an underground classic. Moynihan then launched a campaign of denial that he was a neo-Nazi, although by then he had adopted a Heathen ethno-centrist separatism.
