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 Schreck at SLM in 2005 | |
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Nikolas Schreck (born 1958or1959) [1] is an American singer-songwriter, author and film-maker. Schreck founded the music and performance collective Radio Werewolf. He collaborated musically with his former wife, American singer and musician Zeena Schreck. He has written several books and directed the 1989 documentary Charles Manson Superstar .
Nikolas Schreck is not his birth name; he changed his name in his 20s. According to writers Gavin Baddeley and Spencer Sunshine, he likely chose the name after the Schutzstaffel head Julius Schreck. [2] [3] Schreck was the founder, frontman, and sole constant member of the Gothic band Radio Werewolf. [4] [2] [5] He founded the band in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. [6] As the group's lead singer he performed theatrical ritual performances, which were billed as "Rallies of the Radio Werewolf Youth Party". The band's co-founder, Evil Wilhelm, left the band in 1988. [7] [8] The band embraced initially ironic and tongue-in-cheek Nazi symbolism early in its life. [9]
Schreck was a practitioner of black magic and founded The Werewolf Order (named after the Nazi Werewolf Korps). He later connected the Order to the Church of Satan and co-led it with his wife Zeena from 1988 to 1999. He worked in the late 1980s with Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey (Zeena's father), publicly speaking in support for the Church. [10] [3] When his wife Zeena renounced the Church of Satan, he followed suit. [11] [12] Schreck and Zeena compiled a fact sheet entitled "Anton LaVey: Legend and Reality" criticizing LaVey and claiming to expose him as a charlatan. [13] They later joined Michael A. Aquino's Temple of Set. [12] Eventually they left over a belief dispute, then founded the Sethian Liberation Movement. [14] Together they authored a book, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic, in 2002. [15]
Schreck was part of the "Abraxas Clique", a collective made up of Schreck, Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, and Michael J. Moynihan, all members of the group the Abraxas Foundation. [16] [12] The Abraxas Foundation, which began in 1987 and which Schreck declared himself a co-funder, described itself as "an occult-fascist think tank" and focused on Social Darwinist philosophy. [17] [12] Schreck described it as "sort of a Thule Society for the '90s." [17]
He is a fan and advocate of the cult leader Charles Manson. [4] [18] [19] Schreck claims he personally corresponded with him. [1] He does not believe the official narrative of the Manson murders, arguing Manson was a "talented, poetic musician with wisdom and with a strong, powerful philosophy who got caught up in these tragic crimes. But he was not the sole instigator and responsible for the crimes". [19] [20] Radio Werewolf held rallies for Manson. [21] He was credited as the editor of the book The Manson File in 1988, published by Parfrey's Amok Press, [4] [5] though the book was actually compiled by Parfrey, who feared publishing the book under his own name. [5] Schreck directed the 1989 documentary Charles Manson Superstar . [22] [4] [12] [23] Schreck wrote a different book, also named The Manson File, but subtitled Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman, in 2011, which is 991 pages long. [14] [24] [25]
He and Zeena divorced in 2015. [26] As of 2019, he was based in Berlin. [19]
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