Abraxas Foundation

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The Abraxas Foundation was a San Francisco-based group active in the 1980s, founded by the American industrial musician Boyd Rice in 1987. Other members of the group included the musicians Nikolas Schreck and Michael J. Moynihan, and the publisher Adam Parfrey. Descriptions of what the Abraxas Foundation was and what it actually did vary, even among its members. The group would frequently publish and promote each other, and were involved with a wide range of other transgressive figures. The Abraxas Foundation was involved in orchestrating the high-profile 8/8/88 Rally in San Francisco, which brought together Satanist and neo-Nazi elements. They operated a record label and the periodical Wake, edited by Boyd Rice for its single issue. The group split with Schreck in 1990, and it was defunct by 1992. Abraxas Foundation materials focused on a variety of taboo topics, including Satanism, social Darwinism, serial killers and occultist Nazism, but also gnosticism and Norse mythology. They...

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