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Nikolas Schreck is an American singer, musician, author, film-maker and religious teacher. Since 2012, Schreck has been lead singer of the musical duo Kingdom of Heaven, whose first album ''XXIII'' was released in April 2015. ==Career== Schreck was the founder, frontman, and sole constant member of the magical musical collective Radio Werewolf from 1984–1993, whose recordings include ''The Fiery Summons'' (1989), ''The Lightning and the Sun'' (1989), ''Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera! A Benediction in Four Movements'' (1990), ''Songs for the End of the World'' (1991), ''Witchcraft/Boots: A Tribute to the Sinatras'' (1991), ''Love Conquers All'' (1992) and 2012's compilation ''The Vinyl Solution''. Schreck is the author of ''The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman'' (2011) ''Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic'', (2002) co-authored with Zeena, ''Flowers from Hell: A Satanic Reader'' (2001), ''The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema'', (2001) and the first edition of ''The Manson File'' (1988). In 1997, Schreck produced the first full-length album by British actor Christopher Lee ''Christopher Lee Sings Devils, Rogues & Other Villains'' which was released on Schreck's Wolfslair label. Schreck's forthcoming series of novels ''The Dallas Book of the Dead'' was previewed in a reading broadcast on NPR's Berlin Stories in July, 2013. He directed the documentary ''Charles Manson Superstar'' and has appeared in several other documentaries and films. He is married to Zeena Schreck (formerly Zeena LaVey). Before his 2003 conversion to Tantric Buddhism, and his earlier renunciation of Satanism, Schreck was a prominent black magician who co-led the magical school The Werewolf Order with Zeena from 1988-1999. He worked closely in the late 1980s with Church of Satan founder Anton Lavey, although he was not a member of the Church. 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. According to his Facebook page, Nikolas Schreck's band Kingdom of Heaven will perform a concert at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen music festival in Leipzig, Germany on May 22, 2015. Kingdom of Heaven's first album ''XXIII'' was released on iTunes and Amazon on 10 April 2015. Nikolas Schreck performed live in Germany for the first time since 1992 in a sonic ritual concert entitled In Her Thrall: Evokation des Ewig-Weibichen at Tower Transmissions Music Festival IV in Dresden on 27 September 2014, collaborating with noted percussionist John Murphy. A documentary concert film of the concert, also entitled ''In Her Thrall'' was photographed by Boa Thor and released via Schreck's World Operations. On December 7 and 8 of 2014, Schreck is scheduled to teach a public class "Sonic Magic in Theory and Praxis: A Two-Day Workshop for Magicians and Musicians" at the NK Projekt in Berlin, Germany, which is described by the NK Projekt as "a rare two-day course in the magical art of applying ritual magic, consciousness alteration and spiritual initiation to music". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nikolas Schreck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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