The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism

Abstract

This article focuses on the Order of the Nine Angles (ONA), which from a fringe group of the British far-right in the 1970s has evolved a violent philosophy and a loose and leaderless network of individuals and groups that merge National Socialism and Satanism; endorses tyrants, cult leaders, non-NS terrorists, and child-abusers; promotes violence, celebrates death, and advocates for real-life actions. The article will analyze the connection between ONA’s philosophy and the development of what can be called Fused Extremism. This phenomenon manifests itself in groups that merge different types of violent extremism and have crystallized through the Internet into a trans-national, leaderless, decentralized, and subversive network that promotes terrorism and violence.

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank “Mr. Z” and “Igor Sarsky” for their advice during the dive into the ONA’s rabbit hole.

Disclosure Statement

The author is the Director of Research (Violent Extremism) at ActiveFence, a proactive online integrity company, empowering the world’s leading Trust and Safety teams to secure their platforms, protecting billions of users across the world, in over 80 languages, from child abuse, disinformation, fraud, hate speech and terror as well as other online harms. The ideas expressed are solely the author’s assessments and do not represent the views of ActiveFence.

Notes

1 These groups were linked through neo-Nazi forums such as Iron March and Fascist Forge. See: Benjamin Lee and Kim Knott, “Fascist aspirants: Fascist Forge and ideological learning in the extreme-right online milieu,” Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, January 2021. DOI: 10.1080/19434472.2020.1850842; A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston and Jake Hanrahan, “Inside Atomwaffen as it Celebrates a Member for Allegedly Killing a Gay Jewish College Student”, ProPublica, February 23, 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-inside-white-hate-group; “Atomwaffen and the SIEGE parallax: how one neo-Nazi’s life’s work is fueling a younger generation,” Southern Poverty Law Center, February 22, 2018. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/22/atomwaffen-and-siege-parallax-how-one-neo-nazi%E2%80%99s-life%E2%80%99s-work-fueling-younger-generation

2 “United States of America Vs. Jarreth Smith”, The United States District Court for the District of Kansas, September 27, 2019. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ksd.128498/gov.uscourts.ksd.128498.9.0.pdf ; Subcomandante X, “Telegram Messages Reveal Details about Neo-Nazi Group Feuerkrieg Division”, Medium October 2, 2019. https://medium.com/americanodyssey/telegram-messages-feuerkrieg-division-jarrett-william-smith-arrested-neo-nazi-34d8dbd32653; Chris Schiano, “Leaked: Neo-Nazi Terrorist ‘Feuerkrieg Division’ Organizing Chats”, Unicorn Riot, March 20, 2020. https://unicornriot.ninja/2020/leaked-neo-nazi-terrorist-feuerkreig-division-organizing-chats/; See also: “The Atomwaffen Division: The Evolution of the White Supremacy Threat,” The Soufan Center, August 2020, pp. 13–15. https://thesoufancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-Atomwaffen-Division-The-Evolution-of-the-White-Supremacy-Threat-August-2020-.pdf

3 Smith’s moniker on Telegram was Anti-Kosmik, a reference to a Satanist groupuscule that was linked to several violent incidents in Scandinavia during the 1990s, and which was inspired by the ONA. See: Benjamin Hedge Olson, “At the Threshold of the Inverted Womb: Anti-Cosmic Satanism and Radical Freedom,” International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 4, no. 2 (2014): 231–249. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v4i2.231; The Black Light Catechism, “Anti-Cosmic Satanism Part I: Why Anti-Cosmic Satanism is not Satanism, but Gnostic Fascism”, Medium, November 10, 2018. https://medium.com/@blacklightcatechism/anti-cosmic-satanism-part-i-why-anti-cosmic-satanism-is-not-satanism-but-fascist-fan-fiction-bc6544ca0a60; “Hail Chaos: Anti-Cosmic Satanism in the Satanic Milieu”, Versteht, January 11, 2018. https://versteht.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/hail-chaos-anti-cosmic-satanism-in-the-satanic-milieu/

4 “U.S. Army Specialist with Links to Neo-Nazi Group Pleads Guilty”, Anti-Defamation League, February 11, 2020. https://www.adl.org/blog/us-army-specialist-with-links-to-neo-nazi-group-pleads-guilty

5 Dominic Alessio and Robert Wallis, “Racist occultism in the UK: behind the Order of Nine Angles (O9A)”, Open Democracy, July 23, 2020. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/racist-occultism-uk-behind-order-nine-angles-o9a/; ONA is anarchistic in terms of structure, thus leaderless and decentralized. See: The Order of Nine Angles, “Reply to Some Criticism,” Nines Angles, [n.d.]. accessed October 28, 2021, http://web.archive.org/web/20111004064402/http://nineangles.wordpress.com/reply-to-some-criticism/

6 “U.S. Army Soldier Charged with Terrorism Offenses for Planning Deadly Ambush on Service Members in His Unit”, Department of Justice, June 22, 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-army-soldier-charged-terrorism-offenses-planning-deadly-ambush-service-members-his

7 Ibid.

8 William Von Neutegem, “Chant (ONA),” YouTube, February 1, 2020. accessed October 6, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kr_CecpXM4; see also “Suspect in Fatal Stabbing Outside Toronto Mosque Appears to Follow Hitler-Worshipping Satanist Movement”, Canadian Anti Hate Network, September 18, 2020. https://www.antihate.ca/suspect_stabbing_toronto_mosque_follow_hitler_worshiping_satanist_movement

9 Jake Ryan, “Government propaganda unit is given secret mission to infiltrate neo-Nazis linked to murders and terror plots around the world,” Daily Mail, January 3, 2021. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9107019/Government-propaganda-unit-given-secret-mission-infiltrate-neo-Nazis-linked-terror-plots.html

10 A copy of the official statement by the various security agencies can be found here: Jana Winter, “U.S. intelligence agencies are increasingly focused on domestic extremists. Their latest target: Satanists,” Yahoo! News, December 19, 2020. https://news.yahoo.com/us-intelligence-agencies-are-increasingly-focused-on-domestic-extremists-their-latest-target-satanists-100036317.html

11 Nick Lowles (ed.), “State of Hate 2019: People vs. the Elites?”, Hope not Hate, 2019, p. 82. https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/state-of-hate-2019-final-1.pdf.

12 Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology (USA, NY: New York University Press, 1985, 1992).

13 Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity (USA, NY: New York University Press, 2002), p. 3.

14 Ibid., p. 191, p. 224 onwards.

15 For further reading about Siege, see: Bethan Johnson and Matthew Feldman, “Siege Culture After Siege: Anatomy of a Neo-Nazi Terrorist Doctrine,” The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, July 21, 2021. https://icct.nl/publication/siege-culture-anatomy-of-a-neo-nazi-terrorist-doctrine/

16 Goodrick Clarke, 2002, p. 50, p. 216.

17 Nicholas Goodrick Clarke, Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism (USA: New York University Press, 1998), 213–222; and Fredrick J. Simonelli, “Thriving in the Cultic Milieu: The World Union of National Socialists, 1962-1992,” in Kaplan and Lööw (eds.), 2002: 210–224, 212–220; Jeffrey Kaplan, “The Postwar Paths of Occult National Socialism,” in Kaplan and Lööw (eds.), 2002: 225–264.

18 Paul Jackson, “Transnational neo-Nazism in the USA, United Kingdom and Australia,” George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, February 28, 2020, p. 13. https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Jackson%20-%20Transnational%20neo%20Nazism%20in%20the%20USA%2C%20United%20Kingdom%20and%20Australia.pdf

19 Jeffrey Kaplan and Heléne Lööw (eds.), The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization (USA and UK: Altamira Press and Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002); Jeffrey Kaplan, “The post-war paths of occult national socialism: from Rockwell and Madole to Manson," Patterns of Prejudice, 2010: 41–67; Kaplan, “Religiosity and the Radical Right: Toward the Creation of a New Ethnic Identity,” in Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjorgo (eds.), Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture (UK: Northeastern University Press, 1998), 102–125, 115–116.

20 Jacob Christiansen Senholt, “Secret Identities in The Sinister Tradition: Political Esotericism and the Convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of Nine Angles”, in The Devil’s Party: Satanism in Modernity, ed. Jesper Aagaard Petersen (UK: Oxford University Press, 2012), 250–274. This article relies on both this version and the online version of this article, which was first presented at the international conference “Satanism in the Modern World” in Trondheim, England, on 19-20th of November 2009 (hereinafter: Senholt, 2009).

21 See: Petersen, ed., The Devil’s Party: Satanism in Modernity (UK: Oxford University Press, 2012); Mattias Gardell, eds., Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism (UK: Duke University Press, 2003)

22 Christopher Partridge, “Esoterrorism and the wrecking of civilization: Genesis P-Orridge and the rise of industrial Paganism,” in Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music, ed. Donna Weston and Andy Bennett (UK: Routledge, 2013), 189–212.

23 Bill Ellis, Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media: Satanism, New Religions and the Media (USA, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2000, 1st ed); Keith Kahn-Harris, Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (Oxford and NewYork: Berg, 2007); Massimo Introvigne, Satanism: A Social History (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016)

24 For example, the Satanic Temple is “an international nontheistic religious organization advocating for secularism and scientific rationalism” and opposing racism and bigotry. See: Lucien Greaves, “I’m a founder of the Satanic Temple. Don’t blame Satan for white supremacy”, The Washington Post, August 23, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/23/im-a-founder-of-the-satanic-temple-dont-blame-satan-for-white-supremacy/

25 Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 231

26 Senholt, 2009, p. 9, pp. 8–14.

27 Ibid.

28 Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg, The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right (USA, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998), p. 143, p. 153; Senholt, 2009, pp. 8–14.

29 There is a debate over the identity of “Anton Long” and whether it is indeed David Myatt. It is important to emphasize that ONA manuscripts and Myatt rejected the claims that the two are the same person. See, for example: David Myatt, “A Matter of Honour”, David Myatt, March 5, 2012. accessed December 26, 2021, https://www.davidmyatt.info/myatt-a-matter-of-honour.html; and compare to Senholt, 2009, pp. 47–49; Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, 50–51; Lowles, ed., “State of Hate 2019”, pp. 84-89; H. E. Upchurch, “The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the “Skull Mask” Neo-Fascist Network,” CTC Sentinel, 14, no. 10 (December 2021): 27–37, 32. https://ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CTC-SENTINEL-102021.pdf; Dylan Miller, “Beyond the Iron Gates: How Nazi-Satanists Infiltrated the UK Underground”, The Quietus, November 27, 2018. https://thequietus.com/articles/25716-ona-fascism-nazis-folk-horror-underground-occult; Jack Hanrahan: Hanrahan (@Jack_Hanrahan), Twitter, April 13, 2020. https://twitter.com/@jake_hanrahan/status/1265266559905411073.

30 Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 216.

31 Ibid., pp. 216-224.

32 George Michael, The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right (USA, Kansas: Kansas University Press, 2006), 142.

33 Ibid., pp. 142-148; See also David Myatt, “Myngath: Some Recollections of a Wyrdful and Extremist Life 2013,” May 2013 edition, David Myatt, [n.d.]. accessed December 26, 2021, http://www.davidmyatt.info/david-myatt-myngath.pdf.

34 Ely Karmon, “The Middle East, Iraq, Palestine - Arenas for Radical and Anti-Globalization Groups Activity”, The International Institute for Counter Terrorism, July 26, 2005. https://www.ict.org.il/Article.aspx?ID=929#gsc.tab=0; Lowles, ed., “State of Hate 2019”, p. 82.

35 Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, “The Terrorist Threat from the Fractured Far Right,” Lawfare Blog, November 1, 2020. https://www.lawfareblog.com/terrorist-threat-fractured-far-right

36 Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Madeleine Blackman, “Fluidity of the Fringes: Prior Extremist Involvement as a Radicalization Pathway, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, January 7, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1531545; See also: Daniel Koehler, From Traitor to Zealot: Exploring the Phenomenon of Side-Switching in Extremism and Terrorism (UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

37 “IntelBrief: The Counterterrorism Challenge of ‘Salad Bar’ Ideologies,” The Soufan Center, March 29, 2021. https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2021-march-29/; See also: Colin Clarke and Rasha Al Aqeedi, “What Terrorism Will Look Like in the Near Future,” Newlines Institute, June 29, 2021. https://newlinesinstitute.org/nonstate-actors/what-terrorism-will-look-like-in-the-near-future/

38 Ibid.

39 Sam de Boise, “Music and Online Far-Right Extremism,” Global Network on Extremism and Technology, October 28, 2021. https://gnet-research.org/2021/10/28/music-and-online-far-right-extremism/

40 For example, the British influential occultist Genesis P-Orridge regarded music as “a platform for propaganda.” See: Partridge, 2013, p. 202.

41 Deena Weinstein, “Pagan Metal,” eds. Weston and Bennett, 2013, 58–75.

42 Goodrick-Clark, 2003, pp. 203-212; Kirsten Dyck, Reichrock: The International Web of White Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music (USA, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017), 55–63; Dominic Alessio and Robert Wallis, “The Musical Is Political: Black Metal and the Extreme Right,” Fair Observer, August 10, 2021. https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/dominic-alessio-robert-wallis-black-metal-extreme-right-music-scene-news-41994/

43 Dyck, p. 56.

44 Peste Mayhem’s YouTube channel: accessed October 8, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyJQedoVipDkUHlBMQWpvg.

45 Nameless Visions’s YouTube channel: accessed October 8, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdboB3ro3nwsZ0VVdTNiGVg.

46 Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 222.

47 Lowles (editor), “State of Hate 2019”, p. 82.

48 Das Schwarze Korps Telegram channel: accessed October 6, 2021, https://t.me/schwarzekorps/847 and https://t.me/schwarzekorps/848

49 Magian in ONA context can be understood as the Judeo-Christian civilization, cultures, structures, political, socio-political, and financial systems, ethos, and morals. According to Goodrick-Clarke, the term originated from Oswald Spengler’s “Magian soul” and Francis Parker Yockey’s Jewish “cultural distortion,” and was allegedly adopted by Myatt in his writings. See: Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, pp. 221–222.

50 ONA followers date their manuscripts from 1889, which is the first “Year of Fayen” (also known as “Year of Fire” or “Year of the Fuhrer”). According to ONA texts, the word Fayen “signifies joy/rejoicing” and refers to:

sacrifice, the shedding of blood […] So ‘year of fayen’ means ‘year of rejoicing’, with the first ‘year of rejoicing’ being 1889. Why? Because that dates the birth of the person who considered himself just the precursor of Vindex/Kalki and who thus, by his accomplishments (such as the Waffen SS), prepared the way for ‘the one against Time’ [i.e. Vindex] and which ‘one against Time’, via the shedding of blood, by sacrifice, creates the new Imperium, who thus presences a new Aeon, and who bloodily avenges the defeat of 1945.

In other words, Hitler is the precursor of Vindex, ONA’s messianic and apocalyptic figure who will avenge the defeat of Nazi Germany, destroy Magian forces, and establish a new galactic empire. See: Rachael Stirling (ed.), Tyberness - Order of Nine Angles: Toward the Abyss, TWS Nexion, Oxonia, Volume 2, September 2019, retrieved from o9a.org: https://www.o9a.org/wp-content/uploads/tyberness-v2a-print.pdf

51 The term Mundane refers to anything or anyone who is not part of, associated with, or follows the ONA’s philosophy. Mundane refers to the current world order; to the “system” and the government, to institutions, individuals, and societies that do not follow the ONA. According to the ONA-affiliated blog Lapis Philosophicus, the term Mundane refers to “Those who do not belong to or who do not associate with our sinister tribes, our traditional nexions, or who do not share our sinister ethos, or our sinister way of life.” See: “ONA-FAQ,” Lapis Philosophicus (The Order of Nine Angles – Labyrinthos Mythologicus), [n.d.]. accessed October 19, 2021, https://lapisphilosophicus.wordpress.com/about-2/ona-faq/

52 Fenrir - Journal of Satanism and the Sinister, is the main magazine of the ONA. The magazine was edited by Audun, which is allegedly one of the pseudonyms of Richard Moult (also known as Stephen Brown, Christos Beest and Beesty Boy), a British musician, artist, and prominent ONA content producer. The magazine contains essays by “Anton Long,” David Myatt, representatives of different ONA nexions, and other contributors. See: Miller, “Beyond the Iron Gates,” November 27, 2018; Kaplan, “Religiosity and the Radical Right,” p. 115.

53 A nexion (gate) is an individual or a group who practices ONA sinister rituals and magic in order to “presencing” the dark. As Goodrick-Clarke explained, nexions, which “are created by evil acts and blasphemous rituals,” provide access to the acausal realm. See: Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 218.

54 The Drecc, according to ONA manuscripts, are “those who belong to the sinister kindred of what, in Old Aeon-speak, was and is exoterically known as ‘The Order of Nine Angles’, composed as our sinister kindred now is of sinister tribes, and of more traditional nexions, spread across the planet we call Earth. We are Drecc – those who bring conflict; who vex others; who tempt others; who seek to defy the limits and laws set and imposed by The Mundanes. We are heresy, chaos, disruption, conflict, terror, combat, temptation, and also forbidden pleasures and forbidden joy.” Quoted from: “We, The Drecc - Heretical Outlaws of The Sinister,” in The Dreccian Way, ONA.org, 120 Year of Fayen (2009). accessed October 6, 2021, http://www.o9a.org/wp-content/uploads/texts/the-drecc.pdf

55 An archive of core ONA texts is registered under the URL omega9alpha.com and is available as of October 2021.

56 The website o9a.org is running by a female ONA follower called Chloe Ortega (also known as Chloe 532 and Kryptonymus). It was created in 2010 and hosted at the Los Angeles-based company DreamHost LLC. The website serves as one of the primary sources for ONA material.

57 “Discovering The Order Of Nine Angles: The Occult Phantom Menace,” Omega9 Alpha, [n.d.]. http://omega9alpha.com/discovering-o9a.pdf; Many ONA texts deal with, glorify, and endorse National Socialism, which is mixed with Satanism. See, for example: Coire Riabhaich, “Nexion: A Guide To Sinister Strategy,” Archive.org, [n.d.]. accessed October 19, 2021, https://ia902900.us.archive.org/26/items/Nexion-AGuideToSinisterStrategyrevised2013/Nexion.pdf; Senholt, 2012, p. 257.

58 Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 223; See also Jeffrey Kaplan, ed., Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right (USA, Altamira Press, 2000), 251–252.

59 The Reichsfolk ideology of “ethical, non-racist” National Socialism was promoted via the out-of-date blog Cosmic Reich (https://cosmicreich.wordpress.com), which published the following collection of articles, most of them by David Myatt. See, for example: “Ethical National-Socialism: A Collection of Essays,” Cosmic Reich (2009 CE). https://cosmicreich.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ethical-ns.pdf (accessed October 11, 2021); “The Two Interpretations Of National Socialism Ours And Theirs,“Omega 9 Alpha, [n.d.]. accessed December 26, 2021, https://www.o9a.org/wp-content/uploads/nazi-o9a-v2.pdf

60 According to Myatt, “racism, racialism, racial prejudice, and nationalism” are views that “have no place in the Numinous Way. Such things – such abstractions – are the genesis of suffering, and thus contradict the very essence of The Numinous Way.” See: David Myatt, The Numinous Way, [n.d.]; See also “Interview with David Myatt on the Numinous Way and “The Folk,” Darkness Converge, July 15, 2009. accessed December 26, 2021, https://darknessconverges.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/interview-with-david-myatt-on-the-numinous-way-and-the-folk/.

61 Mattias Gardell, 2003, p. 294

62 Ibid.

63 Senholt, 2009, pp. 12-13; Senholt, 2012, pp, 252–253.

64 Ibid., p. 13.

65 Jacob Davey and Julia Ebner, “‘The Great Replacement’: The Violent Consequences of Mainstreamed Extremism,” Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2019. https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/The-Great-Replacement-The-Violent-Consequences-of-Mainstreamed-Extremism-by-ISD.pdf; Jacob Ware, “Testament to Murder: The Violent Far-Right’s Increasing Use of Terrorist Manifestos,” ICCT Policy Brief, March 2020, p. 5. https://icct.nl/app/uploads/2020/03/Jaocb-Ware-Terrorist-Manifestos2.pdf; Mattias Gardell, Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide (UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

66 Chloe352, “Civil War 2.0,” O9a.org, October 1, 2021. accessed October 2, 2021, http://www.o9a.org/2021/10/civil-war-2-0/

67 Ibid.

68 Ibid.

69 Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 222

70 Lowles, 2019, p. 81; Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 219

71 Anton Long, “O9A – The Heresy Of Satanism,” 122 y.f. [2011], retrieved from o9a.org, [n.d.]. accessed October 13, 2021, http://www.o9a.org/wp-content/uploads/o9a-understanding-satanism-v3a.pdf

72 Ibid.

73 “A Glossary of Order of Nine Angles Terms,” Order of Nine Angles, Version 5.03, 130 Year of Fayen [2019], retrieved from Archive.org, [n.d.]. https://ia804505.us.archive.org/1/items/o9a-glossary-v5b/o9a-glossary-v5b.pdf

74 Lowels, 2019, p. 82.

75 “Sinister Culling and The ONA Kollective,” Order of Nine Angles, 121 Year of Fayen [2010], retrieved from o9a.org, [n.d.]. http://www.o9a.org/wp-content/uploads/texts/0-culling-and-o9a-kollective.pdf

76 “Guide To The Kulture and Ethos of the ONA,” Order of Nine Angles, 121 Year of Fayen [2010], accessed October 19, 2021, http://www.o9a.org/wp-content/uploads/texts/1-o9a-kulture-ethos.pdf

77 David Myatt, Vindex: The Destin y o f the West (USA, West Virginia: Liberty Bell, 1984), p. 14. accessed December 11, 2021, https://ia800905.us.archive.org/32/items/myatt-vindex/myatt-vindex.pdf.

78 Ibid.

79 R. Parker & O9A, “The Seven Fold Way Of The Order Of Nine Angles A Modern Practical Guide,” 2nd ed. 2017 ev, retrieved from o9a.org, March 12, 2017. accessed October 25, 2021, https://www.o9a.org/wp-content/uploads/o9a-7fw-practical-v3.pdf.

80 Stirling (ed.), Tyberness, 2019.

81 See: Lowles (ed.), “State of Hate 2019, p. 82; Apparently, White Star Acception 352 (WSA352) is related to Chloe 352, which is also known as “Chloe Ortega,” the owner the o9a.org. See: https://cosmion.wordpress.com/wsas-dark-side/ and compare to https://www.o9a.org/about-chloe-352/, accessed December 11, 2021.

82 The White Star Acception is linked to several blogs, for example, such as “White Star Acception” (https://wsa352.carrd.co) and Cosmion: accessed December 11, 2021, https://cosmion.wordpress.com/white-star-acception/

83 The Black Order of Vinland blog: accessed October 19, 2021, https://blackorderofvinland.home.blog/about/.

84 Introvigne, 2016, p. 359.

85 Nate Thayer, “White Power and Apocalyptic Cults: Pro North Korean Americans Revealed,” NK News, May 6, 2019. https://www.nknews.org/2013/05/white-power-and-apocalyptic-cults-pro-dprk-americans-revealed/; Thayer, April 12, 2019.

86 Martinet Press blog was active from 2014 to 2020 and is still online as of October 2021. See: accessed October 19, 2021, https://martinetpress.wordpress.com.

87 Nate Thayer, “U.S. Soldiers Uncovered in Atomwaffen Division Satanic Nazi Death Cult Terror Group”, Nate Thayer, April 12, 2019. http://www.nate-thayer.com/u-s-soldiers-uncovered-in-atomwaffen-division-satanic-nazi-death-cult-terror-group/; Weill, March 21, 2018.

88 Ibid.; Miller, “Beyond the Iron Gates,” November 27, 2018; SPLC, “Atomwaffen and the SIEGE parallax,” February 22, 2018.

89 Temple of Blood, Liber 333, 2008, p. 4.

90 Ibid.

91 Kelly Well, “Satanism Drama Is Tearing Apart the Murderous Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen,” The Daily Beast, March 21, 2018. https://www.thedailybeast.com/satanism-drama-is-tearing-apart-the-murderous-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen

92 Kerry Burke and Noah Goldberg, “Gun-toting Queens Satanist named Angel ‘expressed interest’ in abusing kids: feds,” New York Daily News, November 24, 2021. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-angel-satanist-pedophile-gun-ammunition-arrest-20211124-2ldqaweajndand4xy5mngkrxyi-story.html

93 “Atomwaffen Division”, The Southern Poverty Law Center, 2015. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/atomwaffen-division; “U.S. Army Soldier Charged,” Department of Justice, June 22, 2020

94 Ben Makuch and Mack Lamoureux, “Unmasking ‘Dark Foreigner’: The Artist Who Fueled a Neo-Nazi Terror Movement,” Vice News, July 8, 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ynv8/unmasking-dark-foreigner-the-artist-who-fuelled-a-neo-nazi-terror-movement.

95 See: “The Atomwaffen Division,” The Soufan Center, August 2020, pp. 13–18.

96 The account was archive and is accessible here: accessed December 12, 2021, https://archive.md/yzyd8; the author obtains screenshots of this account. The Finnish AWD cell called itself "Siitoin Squadron," after Pekka Siitoin - one of Finland’s most prominent Cold War-era neo-Nazis who also embraced Satanism. As for the weapons that the group displayed in its images on Twitter, it is not easy to estimate whether they are real or replicas.

97 “The Atomwaffen Division,” The Soufan Center, August 2020, p. 13; Jesse J. Norris, “Idiosyncratic Terrorism: Disaggregating an Undertheorized Concept,” Perspectives on Terrorism, XIV, no. 3 (June 2020): 1–18, p. 11.

98 See: “Hate Fuel: The Hidden Online World Fuelling Far Right Terror,” Community Security Trust (UK), 2020, pp. 34–41. https://cst.org.uk/public/data/file/e/1/Hate%20Fuel%20-%20redacted.pdf

99 “The Atomwaffen Division,” The Soufan Center, August 2020, pp. 13-15.

100 Daniel de Simone, “Harry Vaughan: House of Lords clerk’s son a ‘neo-Nazi Satanist’”, BBC, October 17, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-54568916; de Simone, “Durham teen neo-Nazi became ‘living dead’”, BBC, November 22, 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-50397477.

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103 Miller, “Beyond the Iron Gates,” November 27, 2018.

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105 For example, the Blood Hound Nexion (BHN), which is also from Yorkshire. BHN’s blog is still available as of December 2021 despite being inactive since 2013. See: accessed December 12, 2021, https://order9angles.wordpress.com/

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109 The Serpent blog: accessed October 19, 2021, http://www.the-serpent.pl/index2.php.

110 The Empire Never Ended, June 28, 2021; ABG Lodge website: https://abglodge.org (accessed October 15, 2021).

111 “Nazi Satanist Order of Nine Angles is infiltrating the State and Church in Montenegro,” The Empire Never Ended, June 28, 2021. https://tenepod.medium.com/nazi-satanist-order-of-nine-angles-is-infiltrating-the-state-and-church-in-montenegro-45b1c0498896.

112 William Allchorn, “From Gangs to Groupuscules and Solo-Actor Terrorism: New Zealand Radical Right Narratives and Counter-Narratives In The Context of the Christchurch Attack”, Hedaya and the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR), April 1, 2021. https://www.hedayahcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021APR1_FINAL_NewZealand_Country-Report.pdf

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114 Allchorn, April 1, 2021; Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 191.

115 The full name of this group is Nexion Patagonia – La Orden Negra de Pan-Europa, and it operates a blog that mirrors TBO publications. See: accessed December 9, 2021, https://nexionpatagonia.wordpress.com/about/

116 Goodrick-Clarke, 2002, p. 227.

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120 Coven Sanctus Sestra Instagram account: accessed October 18, 2021, https://www.instagram.com/sanctussestra_o9a/

121 Salamántika Arrenothélica’s blog: https://salamantikaarrenothelica.wordpress.com; Salamántika Arrenothélica’s Publishing House is called Azoth Editorial, which has a Facebook page with more than “likes”. See: accessed December 14, 2021, https://www.facebook.com/azoth.editorial.

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125 “The Journey Begins”, O9aorg, March 3, 2018.

126 See: Ona021 Asia (https://ona021asia.wordpress.com); and Russia ONA021 (https://russiaona021.wordpress.com) accessed October 15, 2021

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128 “Blood Beast,” Iron Gates Now, June 7, 2020. accessed September 21, 2021, https://irongatesnow.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/blood-beast/; The Iron Gates Now blog was promoted by another blog called Tempel ov the Void, which is also affiliated with the ToB. The Void Tempel’s blog was created in July 2020 but wat not updated since March 2021. See: accessed October 20, 2021, https://voiddwellers.wordpress.com

129 See: Alex Newhouse, “The Threat Is the Network: The Multi-Node Structure of Neo-Fascist Accelerationism,” CTC Sentinel, 14, no. 5, (June 2021): 17–25. https://ctc.usma.edu/the-threat-is-the-network-the-multi-node-structure-of-neo-fascist-accelerationism/; and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson and Colin P. Clarke, “The Growing Threat Posed by Accelerationism and Accelerationist Groups Worldwide”, Foreign Policy Research Institute, April 20, 2020. https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/04/the-growing-threat-posed-by-accelerationism-and-accelerationist-groups-worldwide/.

130 “Terrorgram Network: A Spiral Towards Bloodsheed,” Hope not Hate, [n.d.]. https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/the-terrorgram-network-a-spiral-towards-bloodshed/

131 There are numerous examples of the involvement of neo-Nazis in child abuse or dissemination of child porn. For example, National Action members accepted, legitimized, and fueled violent sexual fantasies and behavior of some of its members, one of whom was a convicted pedophile. For further reading, see: Matthew Collins, Nazi Terrorist: The Story of National Action (UK, London: Hope Not Hate, 2019). In early October 2021, it was reported that the police in Rio de Janeiro arrested a man who was accused of raping a minor. At the man’s house, police found child pornography, Nazi memorabilia, and Nazi-era weapons. According to the lead detective on the case, the suspect “is a Holocaust denier, he’s homophobic, he’s a pedophile and he says he hunts homosexuals […] I’m no doctor, but he seems to me an insane psychopath.” See: Rodrigo Viga Gaier, “Brazil police find 3 mln euro Nazi haul at home of suspected pedophile,” Reuters, October 6, 2021. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-police-find-3-mln-euro-nazi-haul-home-suspected-pedophile-2021-10-06/

132 Rapewaffen Division’s Telegram channel: accessed November 20, 2019, https://t.me/RapeTibbygram; See also: Patrik Hermansson, “The Rapewaffen Telegram Channel,” Hope not Hate, June 23, 2020. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/06/23/the-rapewaffen-telegram-channel/

133 Mapping Militant Organizations, “Atomwaffen Division/National Socialist Order,” Stanford University. Last modified February 2021. https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/atomwaffen-division

134 Rape999 Telegram channel: accessed November 20, 2019, https://t.me/Rape999

135 Rapekrieg Telegram channel: accessed November 20, 2019, https://t.me/Rapekrieg

136 See, for example, the following archived thread from the 4chan message board: accessed November 20, 2019, http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/214458759/

137 See: Simon Purdue, “The new face of terror in the US,” openDemocracy, October 29, 2020. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/new-face-terror-us/

138 Harmeet Kaur, “A synagogue in Michigan found anti-Semitic posters on its door,” CNN, October 15, 2019. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/15/us/grand-rapids-michigan-synagogue-vandalized-trnd/index.html

139 Nick R. Martin, “Heartland Terror,” The Informant, March 26, 2020. https://www.informant.news/p/heartland-terror

140 Rural People’s Nationalist Party’s Telegram channel: accessed October 21, 2021, https://t.me/RP_NP

141 ONA’s books and other products (e.g., merchandise, music) are sold online. It is not baseless to assume that these sales contribute to ONA’s continuity and even expansion. This topic requires further research that will focus pn how ONA followers raise funds.

142 “Satanists killed man ‘on Devil’s orders’,” BBC, January 18, 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1767939.stm

143 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jul/13/kateconnolly

144 Kate Connolly, “German satanic couple held after ritual murder,” The Guardian, July 13, 2001. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/22/italy

145 Bill Hutchinson, “Holden Matthews sentenced to 25 years for setting fire to 3 historically Black churches in Louisiana, ABC News, November 3, 2020. https://abcnews.go.com/US/holden-matthews-sentenced-25-years-setting-fire-historically/story?id=73970865

146 Harry Farley, “Danyal Hussein: A teenage murderer with far-right links: BBC, July 6, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57722035; and Daniel De Simone, “Satanic forums visited by a killer uncovered,” BBC, August 13, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-58191473

147 See: Volcel_Partisan (@PartisanVolcel), Twitter, August 21, 2021. https://twitter.com/partisanvolcel/status/1429094485254938631; and “Moscow Satanist Couple Accused of Ritual Killings,” Moscow Times, August 20, 2021. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/08/20/moscow-satanist-couple-accused-of-ritual-killings-a74855

148 “USCP Officers Arrest California Man with Bayonet & Machete,” United States Capitol Police, September 13, 2021. https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-officers-arrest-california-man-bayonet-machete; see also Rita Katz, Twitter, September 13, 2021. https://twitter.com/Rita_Katz/status/1437507695326736388

149 Matthew Gault, “FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim,” Vice News, August 25, 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyv9zk/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim

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Ariel Koch

Dr. Ariel Koch is Research Fellow at The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University, Israel. His specialization is in the study of extremist movements in Western liberal-democracies, and his research focuses on the nexus between Islamist extremism, right-wing extremism, and left-wing extremism. Dr. Koch is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR), London, UK, and a member of The Middle East Network Analysis Desk at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel.