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American experimental musician

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • No
  • Outré Journal
  • The Last Testament of Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Night Flower

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1956-12-16

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629,023

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industrialneofolkexperimentalnoiseapocalyptic folk

Boyd Rice (born 1956) is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, actor, photographer, prankster and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name NON and his own name. He has also collaborated with numerous artists in varying capacities beyond these projects. His projects include: NON (1978-) Boyd Rice & Frank Tovey (1984): With Fad Gadget Sickness of Snakes (1985): with Coil Boyd Rice and Friends (1990-2004) with Douglas Pearce of Death in June <a href="h

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Quotes

  • [Charles Manson is] the perfect embodiment of Odinism as a way of life, a Hitlerian ideal! I find it difficult to breathe within the confines of more mainstream National Socialism which seems to be made up of people who lack any inner vision & are still thinking in terms as small as those who they oppose.
  • We mourn not its victims, we honor its victors... I would remind those here that murder is the predator's prerogative, and there is no birth without blood.
  • Every single one of us in this room, we'd be prepared to kill if need be, we would be prepared to die for what we believe in. But what scares the people out there a thousand times more is that we’re prepared to live for what we believe in.
  • When all is said and done, I have no great quarrel with being labelled a "fascist". While it is not the whole story, it implies (to me) a sort of Marquis De Sade worldview that sees life in terms of master and slave, strong and weak, predator and prey. I know such views are highly unfashionable, but to me they seem fairly consistent with what I've seen to be true.
  • We don’t believe in a master race... We think there are strong people who do what they want to do, and there are other people who just follow along. Race is an issue, but I don’t think you can have a master race, because every race has a handful of people who are really intelligent, who are achievers, and a bunch of people who are what Lenin called "stuffing in the mattress".
  • The coasts are doomed, they're death traps. The cities are like malignant cancers, completely dysfunctional. They're llike previews of the Apocalypse. You know how deadly diseases have symptoms - ugly sores that sprout up that sort of signify a deeper problem. That's how I view cities. If America has the cultural equivalent of A.I.D.S., the major cities are analogous to Kaposis Sarcoma. If you want to see life in dysfunction, go to S.F. or L.A. or N.Y.

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.boydrice.com
Image
Boyd Rice protesting for Charles Manson.jpg
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date of birth
1956-12-16
start of work period
1977-00-00
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Boyd Rice
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Boyd Rice, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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