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40-622: Radio Werewolf was founded in Los Angeles in 1984, by Nikolas Schreck (vocals), Evil Wilhelm (percussion), James "Filth" Collord (bass) and Nathan Pino (hammond organ.) When Nathan Pino was asked to leave the band, he was replaced on the keyboard (known by Radio Werewolf as the Lycanthropachord) by Paul Antonelli , formerly with the band Animotion . Holding a series of controversial theatrical ritual events billed as Radio Werewolf Youth Rallies at such landmark Sunset Strip venues as The Whisky

80-500: A Go Go , the Roxy , and Club Lingerie, as well as at pioneering Gothic underground clubs The Krypt, The Scream, and Zombie Zoo, the band attracted a cult following they came to identify as the "Radio Werewolf Youth Party." As such, Radio Werewolf claimed that their sound was part of a musical purist movement, designed to evoke feelings of power and harmony through the use of the "dominant frequency" which lead vocalist Nikolas Schreck described in

120-435: A backlash for these associations in the late 1980s, when more left-wing avant-garde figures like Jello Biafra , Peter Christopherson , and V. Vale cut their ties with him. In the 1990s he began to disassociate himself from the far right and to use fascist iconography with more irony. Rice has denied that he is a neo-Nazi. In one 2012 interview he praised Arthur de Gobineau while adding, “I don’t think that to believe in

160-526: A heated controversy due to the nature of the song material. While Schreck and the rest of the band would later refer to their work as mainly a theatrical performance designed to emulate specific aspects of history or culture, songs like "Pogo the Clown" (about serial killer John Wayne Gacy ), "The Night" (about a lovesick vampire), and "Incubus" (about a girl being visited by an Incubus), were pointed to by critics as condoning necrophilia and literal vampirism. Adding to

200-463: A long correspondence. Schwarz, a biographer of Duchamp and Man Ray , encouraged Rice to pursue his art, no matter what. And he did. Though he would later shift his focus to sound, he has never stopped creating visual art and has given a number of one man shows over the years. In the mid-1970s Rice devoted a great deal of time to experimental photography, developing a process by which he could produce "photographs of things which don't exist". He had

240-639: A one-man show of the photos in the early 1980s at Richard Peterson's Pink & Pearl Gallery in San Diego, which was documented in the local press, the San Diego Union and Evening Tribune . He has never revealed the means by which he made these photos, and has stated publicly that the secret will go to the grave with him. Some of these photos can be seen in his book Standing in Two Circles (Creation Press, 2008). Rice dated Lisa Crystal Carver , with whom he has

280-539: A result. He also cultivated connections with neo-Nazis such as James Mason (who he began corresponding with in 1986 ), Tom Metzger (whose TV show he appeared on in 1986 ) and Bob Heick . Rice introduced Mason to Adam Parfrey and Michael J. Moynihan , who would bring Mason's book Siege to a larger audience. In 1989, Rice and Heick were photographed for Sassy wearing uniforms and brandishing knives. He has also expressed support for fascism in his writings, interviews, and public appearances. Rice began to face

320-675: A shoe polisher, the "rotoguitar" (an electric guitar with an electric fan on it), and other homemade instruments . He has also used found sounds , played at a volume just below the threshold of pain, to entice his audiences to endure his high decibel sound experiments. Rice coupled his aural assaults with psychological torture on audiences in The Hague , the Netherlands, by shining in their faces exceedingly bright lights that were deliberately placed just out of reach. As their frustration mounted, Rice states that he: ...continued to be friendly to

360-480: A son, Wolfgang. Rice was arrested in 1995 for domestic violence, though never charged. Carver writes in her memoir, Drugs Are Nice , that he physically abused her. Since the 1980s Rice's music and art have been influenced by fascist and otherwise transgressive ideas and aesthetics. The packaging for NON's 1986 album Blood & Flame , for instance, included a Wolfsangel and a quote from Alfred Rosenberg . He has often been accused of fascist sympathies as

400-566: A song called "Strength through Joy," named after the Nazi slogan and recreational program . Here again, the band's musical choice to use a tinny concertina and exaggerated Oom-pah rhythm makes clear the intended parody. Their cover version of the Nancy Sinatra song "These Boots Were Made for Walking" features the sound of army marching in the background, as well as Zeena singing a few lines in German. For

440-485: Is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s. A pioneer of industrial music , Rice was one of the first artists to use a sampler and turntable as an instrument. He is also a writer, archivist, actor, and photographer. Rice was born on December 16, 1956, in Lemon Grove, California . He became widely known through his involvement in V. Vale 's RE/Search Publications . He

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480-419: Is one of the coolest bands you probably never heard of. It’s a dark trip on to the set of a vintage horror movie.[...] Zeena’s version of Nancy Sinatra’s, " These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ ," features a World War II-esque sample sound of marching boots to kick it off the song followed by a deep bass line reminiscent of Nilsson’s "Jump Into The Fire." Zeena seduces with sultry vocals and smacks a bit of German into

520-801: Is profiled in RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook and Pranks! In the mid-1980s Rice became close friends with Anton LaVey , founder and high priest of the Church of Satan , and was made a priest, then later a magister in the Council of Nine of the Church. The two admired much of the same music and shared a similar misanthropic outlook. Each had been inspired by Might Is Right in fashioning various works: LaVey in The Satanic Bible , and Rice in several recordings. In 1987 Rice and Nikolas Schreck founded

560-489: The Mute Records label. Rice has also collaborated with Frank Tovey of Fad Gadget , Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus and Michael Jenkins Moynihan of Blood Axis . His later albums have often been explicitly conceptual . On Might! (1995), Rice layers portions of Ragnar Redbeard's Social Darwinist harangue, Might Is Right over sound beds of looped noise and manipulated frequencies. 1997's God & Beast explores

600-448: The 1989 documentary Charles Manson Superstar . Schreck was the founder, frontman, and sole constant member of the magical musical collective Radio Werewolf from 1984 to 1993. Schreck was a practitioner of black magic who co-led the magical school, The Werewolf Order, with his then-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

640-514: The Abraxas Foundation, an "occult-fascist" think tank that also counted Adam Parfrey and Michael J. Moynihan among its members. During an interview, Rice described the basic philosophy of his foundation as being "The strong rule the weak, and the clever rule the strong". Rice has documented the writings of Charles Manson in his role as contributing editor of The Manson File . Rice creates music under his own name, as well as under

680-730: The Church. When his wife Zeena renounced Satanism , he followed suit. Schreck was a Master of the Temple of Set before resigning with several others in 2002 due to religious and administrative differences. In 2002, Schreck was one of the founding members of the Sethian Liberation Movement (formerly the Storm) which is currently located in Berlin. In 1997, Schreck produced the first full-length album by British actor Christopher Lee , Christopher Lee Sings Devils, Rogues & Other Villains , which

720-534: The German press increased Radio Werewolf's cult following in Germany. In 1989, Nikolas Schreck released a documentary about Charles Manson entitled Charles Manson Superstar under Radio Werewolf's sister label "Video Werewolf." Billed as the only fair interview ever conducted with Manson, the video featured photographs and footage of Spahn Ranch along with interviews of people connected in some way with Manson or movements he has been associated with. Schreck indicated in

760-574: The Maxi-singles cover, Zeena sported a similar costume as the film character Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS . Schreck explains in a 2011 interview that this track was a deliberate self-parody of their own public image at the time. Schreck stated that, "Black humor, sarcasm, and irony were always essential to the Radio Werewolf experience." Considering the L.A. Punk rock , Post-punk and Deathrock music scenes of

800-694: The Schreck/Wilhelm/Collord/Antonelli collaborative years: Under the Zeena Schreck/Nikolas Schreck collaborative years: Nikolas Schreck Nikolas Schreck is an American singer-songwriter, author, and film-maker based in Berlin , Germany. Schreck founded the music and performance collective Radio Werewolf , which operated from 1984 to 1994. He collaborated musically with his former wife, American singer and musician Zeena Schreck . He has written several books and directed

840-792: The Sun marked her official entry as Radio Werewolf's co-director. She also served as co-director with Nikolas Schreck, of the Werewolf Order, a magical and ecological initiatory circle which evolved from the earlier Radio Werewolf Youth Party. The subsequent Radio Werewolf recordings, Songs for the End of the World , Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera , Witchcraft-Boots: A Tribute to the Sin-Atras , and Love Conquers All increasingly covered magical and mythological themes related to

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880-553: The audience, which made them even madder, because they were so mad and I didn't care! They were shaking their fists at me, and I thought that at any minute there'd be a riot. So I took it as far as I thought I could, and then thanked them and left. After dropping out of high school at the age of 17, Rice began an in-depth study of early 20th-century art movements , producing his own abstract black and white paintings and experimental photographs. Early on, he met European art historian and gallery owner Arturo Schwarz , with whom he began

920-552: The band name of Giddle & Boyd. After the limited edition release of a bubblegum pink, heart-shaped vinyl E.P. titled, Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt . In early 2010, Rice announced that he and Giddle Partridge would focus on solo projects/albums for the time being. Early NON performances were designed to offer choice to audience members who might otherwise expect only a prefabricated and totally passive entertainment experience. Rice has stated that he considers his performances to be "de- indoctrination rites". Rice has performed using

960-677: The band released the recordings Songs for the End of the World , The Lightning and the Sun , Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera! , Witchcraft-Boots: A Tribute to the Sinatras , and Love Conquers All . In 2012, Radio Werewolf's The Vinyl Solution - Analog Artifacts, Ritual Instrumentals and Undercover Versions was released by World Operations. The compact disc was the first official Radio Werewolf release since 1992, and compiled remastered version of 12 ambient tracks from between 1989-1992 as well as two previously unreleased bonus tracks. Boyd Rice Boyd Blake Rice (born December 16, 1956)

1000-490: The controversy of the band was a number of references to National Socialism . The biggest was the song "Triumph of the Will," named after a Nazi propaganda film . The song, written and sung from the point of view of an elderly former Nazi reminiscing about Nazi Germany, incorporating such lyrics as "Eva, oh Eva, come sit on my face; Berlin is burning and we are the master race," was intended as obvious black humor . The band also had

1040-535: The couple's use of sound as a magical tool. From 1990 to 1993, Radio Werewolf toured only in Europe, and were based in Vienna, Austria, where percussionist Christophe D. and viola player Vladimir Rosinski joined the group. Radio Werewolf's last performance open to the general public was held at Zurich, Switzerland's historic Kaufleute Hall on December 30, 1991, and was billed as The Zurich Experiment . A Video Werewolf release of

1080-417: The documentary that Manson was mostly a misunderstood and misused figure, advocated as evil and archetypal of everything negative through a large scale fabrication by the media. Musical support and Narration also provided by fellow Radio Werewolf member and co-Producer Zeena Schreck. Zeena Schreck's compositions, performance, and graphic design on Radio Werewolf's 1989 ambient ritual music EP The Lightning and

1120-456: The early 80s, from which Radio Werewolf arose, helps to place their use of Nazi imagery and themes in context with other bands of that time who also used such imagery. In the late 1980s, Radio Werewolf was heavily featured on talk shows and in media material, billed as heading a worldwide Satanic movement. Interviewed variously by investigative journalist Geraldo Rivera , Tom Metzger , Wally George , Christian pastor Bob Larson , and others,

1160-458: The intersection in the soul of man's physical and spiritual natures over the course of an album that alternates abrasive soundscapes with passages of tranquility. In 2006, Rice returned to the studio to record raw vocal sound sources for a collaboration with Industrial, modern primitive percussionist/ ethnomusicologist Z'EV . In addition, he and long-time friend of twenty years Giddle Partridge planned an album titled LOVE/LOVE-BANG/BANG! , under

1200-486: The interview was promoting the 2012 Radio Werewolf release of The Vinyl Solution - Analog Artifacts: Ritual Instrumentals and Undercover Versions CD, the first authorized Radio Werewolf release in 20 years, Under the Zeena Schreck/Nikolas Schreck collaborative years: Under the Zeena Schreck/Nikolas Schreck collaborative years: Under the Schreck/Wilhelm/Collard/Antonelli collaborative years: Under

1240-710: The liner notes of the 1989 Radio Werewolf album The Fiery Summons as sonic magic . Although this early Radio Werewolf formation recorded many of their signature songs on a 1987 studio album which has since been widely bootlegged, the only official release of music from these sessions was Buried Alive , on the American Gothic LP compilation released by Bomp! and Gymnastic Records in 1988. The 1988 black comedy film Mortuary Academy featured Radio Werewolf as themselves performing "1960 Cadillac Hearse", another song featured on their first unreleased album. Radio Werewolf's live performances from 1984 to 1988 in Los Angeles sparked

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1280-615: The media infamy associated with this phase of the group culminated, on August 8, 1988, with a Satanically themed rally in San Francisco at the Strand Theater held with NON . This event marked the first Radio Werewolf collaboration with Zeena Schreck, who appeared in her capacity as High Priestess of the Church of Satan. This performance, along with a Radio Werewolf interview featured on the highly rated Geraldo Rivera's Exposing Satan's Underground TV special broadcast on Halloween of 1988,

1320-439: The middle of the tune. In conjunction with the release of The Vinyl Solution - Analog Artifacts: Ritual Instrumentals and Undercover Versions , Zeena, Radio Werewolf's former co-director, composer, performer, graphic designer/art director and She-Wolf from 1988 to 1993, granted a limited number of interviews for its release. In December 2012, Zeena Schreck was invited to speak for a Nightwatch Radio Interview. Among other topics,

1360-599: The moniker of NON and with contributors under various other project names. Rice started creating experimental noise recordings in 1975, drawing on his interest in tape machines and bubblegum pop sung by female vocalists such as Little Peggy March and Ginny Arnell . One of his earliest efforts consisted entirely of a loop of every time Lesley Gore sang the word "cry". After initially creating recordings simply for his own listening, he later started to give performances, and eventually make records. His musical project NON grew out of these early experiments; he reportedly selected

1400-535: The name because "it implies everything and nothing". From his earliest recordings, Rice has experimented with both sound and the medium through which that sound is conveyed. His methods of expanding upon the listening possibilities for recorded music were simple. On his second seven-inch, he had 2–4 extra holes punched into the record for "multi axial rotation". Another early LP was titled Play at Any Speed . While working exclusively with vinyl, he employed locked grooves that allowed listeners to create their own music. He

1440-546: The public. In 2016, Classic Rock magazine ranked Radio Werewolf number 4 on their 'The 25 weirdest bands of all time' list. In 2016, The Top Tens Most Satanic Bands listed Radio Werewolf, "Yes!, Since when does Heavy Metal have to be the only satanic music. Why not dark organ Gothic/Deathrock." In 2019, Amy Haben's article "Subversive Grooves: Music From the Dark Side," for the 25 February edition of online zine Please Kill Me , describes Radio Werewolf and Zeena, "Radio Werewolf

1480-613: The same name was released in 1992. Zeena and Nikolas Schreck continued to operate the Werewolf Order until 1999, but ended the Radio Werewolf aspect of this activity in 1993. In 2012, Radio Werewolf's The Vinyl Solution - Analog Artifacts: Ritual Instrumentals and Undercover Versions was released by World Operations. The compact disc, the first official Radio Werewolf release since 1992, compiles newly remastered re-releases of 12 ambient sonic magic tracks from Zeena and Nikolas Schreck's rare Radio Werewolf vinyl recordings between 1989 and 1992 as well as 2 bonus tracks never previously released to

1520-552: Was additionally controversial due to the perception of the band by some quarters of the music press as supporting Neonazi ideologies. Though this was denied by the band, Evil Wilhelm quit Radio Werewolf shortly after the 8-8-88 Rally, later stating that he felt their music was being misunderstood by Nazi groups. Schreck continued Radio Werewolf as a solo project with the release of the 1989 album The Fiery Summons , released by Gymnastic Records of Germany. The release of this album and several mainstream magazine interviews with Schreck in

1560-538: Was one of the first artists, after John Cage , to treat turntables as instruments and developed various techniques for scratching . Rice has been treating sounds from vinyl recordings as early as 1975. Under the name NON, originally with second member Robert Turman , Rice has recorded several seminal noise music albums, and collaborated with experimental music / dark folk artists like Current 93 , Death in June and Rose McDowall . Most of his music has been released on

1600-535: Was released on Schreck's Wolfslair label. Schreck founded the band Radio Werewolf in 1984. 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.. The band's first album, The Fiery Summons was released in 1989. Schreck's then-wife Zeena Schreck served as Radio Werewolf co-director from 1988-1993, during which

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