Nikolas Schreck
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Nikolas Schreck (born 1958 or 1959)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, author and film-maker. Schreck founded the music and performance collective Radio Werewolf, and was the co-founder of the Abraxas Foundation. He was formerly a Satanist and affiliated with the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set, but later disavowed both and left the Church of Satan. He later became a Buddhist. 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.
Career
[edit | edit source]Nikolas Schreck is not his birth name; he changed his name in his 20s. Schreck means terror or fright in German.[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".[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. He later connected the Order to the Church of Satan and co-led it with his wife Zeena. 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]
Schreck was part of the Abraxas Foundation, a collective made up of Schreck, Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, and Michael J. Moynihan.[11][12][13] 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.[12][14] Schreck described it as "sort of a Thule Society for the '90s."[14] In San Francisco in August 1987, Schreck's right ear was cut off.[13][15][16] According to Boyd Rice and another associate of Schreck, this came after Schreck had passed out pro-AIDS leaflets in an area where gay sex workers were common. In retaliation, a gang of "gay leatherboys" chased him and cut his ear off.[13][15]
He is an advocate of the cult leader Charles Manson.[4][17][18] Schreck 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".[18][19] Radio Werewolf held rallies for Manson.[20] He was credited as the editor of the book The Manson File in 1988, published by Parfrey's Amok Press.[4][5][13] Schreck directed the 1989 documentary Charles Manson Superstar.[21][4][12][22] 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.[23][24][19]
Schreck appeared multiple times on the white supremacist public-access show Race and Reason, run by white supremacist Tom Metzger.[25][26][27][28] On a 1988 appearance to promote The Manson File, he spoke of his own projects and ideology, and declared his intention to start a "cultural war on every front" against "Judeo-Christian values". During this appearance he described "race-mixing" as "genetic suicide", positively quoted Adolf Hitler, and espoused an Odinist kind of white nationalism.[25][26]
When his wife Zeena renounced the Church of Satan, he followed suit.[29][12] Schreck and Zeena compiled a fact sheet entitled "Anton LaVey: Legend and Reality" criticizing LaVey and claiming to expose him as a charlatan.[30] They later joined Michael A. Aquino's Temple of Set.[12] Eventually they left over a belief dispute, then founded the Sethian Liberation Movement.[23] Together they authored a book, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic, in 2002.[31] He and Zeena divorced in 2015.[32] As of 2019, he was based in Berlin, and is a Buddhist.[18][19]
Bibliography
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Filmography
[edit | edit source]- Charles Manson Superstar (1989), director
References
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- ^ Mathews 2009, p. 190.
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- ^ a b Berry 2017, p. 149–151.
- ^ Faxneld & Petersen 2013, p. 186.
- ^ Lewis 2011, p. 352.
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Works cited
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External links
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- Nikolas Schreck at Bandcamp
- Nikolas Schreck at IMDb
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