Michael Moynihan (journalist)
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Michael Moynihan, (b. January 17, 1969) aka Michael M. Jenkins, is an journalist, publisher and founder of the music group Blood Axis. Among the topics he has written on are: Ásatrú, Satanism, Fascism, Black Metal, Charles Manson, and National Socialism.
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Early Life
Moynihan was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a lawyer father. He identifies his background as entirely Northern European: Irish, English, Welsh, and German. At age 15, Moynihan began making experimental industrial music, some of it power electronics, under the name Coup de Grace. It was the name for a multimedia project under which he operated from 1984-early 1989. In addition to cassettes and live performance, booklets of images and texts were released, the last of which was Friedrich Nietzsche's Der Antichrist.
Collaborations and Associations
In 1989, he formed the musical entity Blood Axis, for which he does the vocals and writes the music. Moynihan was an associate of the experimental musician Boyd Rice, at one point sharing an apartment with him in Denver. Beginning correspondence with him in 1988, Rice invited him to go to Japan and collaborate with him on some NON performances there in 1989. Moynihan peformed in concert with Tony Wakeford, Douglas P., and Rose McDowell (the Osaka, Japan show was captured on the Live in Osaka DVD). An album titled Music, Martinis, and Misanthropy grew out of this collaboration. He moved to Denver in 1990. He was a part of the Abraxas Foundation, appearing, with Rice, on the "neo-nazi satanism" night of Bob Larson's Christian radio show. During this time he was questioned by the Secret Service about a plot to assassinate then President George H. W. Bush; he was subjected to a polygraph test, no charges were filed. An incredulous Moynihan argues that it was a plain and simple case of intimidation stemming from his correspondence with Charles Manson and visits to Sandra Good.
Editing and Authorship
In 1992, Moynihan published a collection of writings by pro-Manson National Socialist Revolutionary James N. Mason. Moynihan edited Mason's newsletter SIEGE (published from 1980-1986) into a book, Siege: The Collected Writings of James Mason (review (http://thescorp.multics.org/18siege.html)), for which he wrote the introduction. In Portland, Oregon Moynihan headed Storm Productions. Moynihan co-authored Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. He has edited two Julius Evola books, and a collection of writings by Karl Maria Wiligut. He has contributed to Seconds Magazine, The Scorpion (book review (http://thescorp.multics.org/18ecofascism.html)), Vor Tru, and Filosophem. He is one of the editors of TYR: Myth - Culture - Tradition, and the North American editor of Runa. He contributed several pieces to the anthology Apocalypse Culture II.
Influences
Moynihan has expressed admiration for Ernst Jünger, Julius Evola, and Leni Riefenstahl.
Present
Moynihan moved from Portland to Vermont in 2000. He helms Dominion Press. He is a member of the Asatru Alliance and Church of Satan.
Print works
- Siege: The Collected Writings of James Mason by James Mason, edited and introduced by Moynihan
- Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Moynihan & Didrik Søderlind, (Feral House [1] (http://www.feralhouse.com/newloc.html), ISBN 0922915482 original, ISBN 0922915946 revised and enlarged edition).
- The Secret King: Karl Maria Wiligut, Himmler's Lords of the Runes edited and prefaced by Moynihan, (Dominion Press, 2001, ISBN 0971204403)
- Introduction to Magic: Ritulas and Practical Techniques for the Magus by Julius Evola and the UR Group, edited by Moynihan, ISBN 0892816244
- Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist by Julius Evola, edited by Moynihan, ISBN 0892819057
- Apocalypse Culture II edited by Adam Parfrey, several contributions by Moynihan, (ISBN 0922915571)
References
- Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2001, ISBN 0814731554
- Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the postwar fascist international (Appendix I: The Devil and Francis Parker Yockey) by Kevin Coogan, (Autonomedia, Brooklyn, NY, 1998, ISBN 1570270392)
- Lucifer Rising : A Book of Sin, Devil Worship and Rock 'n' Roll by Gavin Baddeley, Paul Woods. (Plexus Publishing, UK, 1999, ISBN 0859652807)
External links
- Blood Axis (http://welcome.to/bloodaxis)
- Blood Axis Archive (http://www.bloodaxis.com)
- Interview with Michael Moynihan (http://cyberpsychos.netonecom.net/cpaod8/8moyn.html) conducted by R. N. Taylor
- The Notorious Michael Moynihan (http://www.mumblage.com/story.php?id=36) by Zach Dundas
- Michael Moynihan / Blood Axis Interview (http://home.online.no/~janbruun/writings/blood.html) by Jan R. Bruun
- How Black Is Black Metal (http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/605560/) By Kevin Coogan