For years, industrial musician Boyd Rice has been accused of involvement in neo-Nazism, something he has always denied or downplayed. My new video, based around his handwritten letters to terrorist ideologue James Mason, show his deep involvement—starting in 1986 and running into 2003—with the most violent neo-Nazis of his time, which I walk through step-by-step. This includes not just Mason (SIEGE), but Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance) and Bob Heick (American Front). Rice, in fact, played a key role in the creation of the book “Siege.”

Among other things, Rice was: the first person in his counterculture clique to contact Mason; the first person to suggest he turn the SIEGE newsletters into a book; and the person who introduced Mason to Michael Moynihan, who edited and published the anthology. No Rice—No “Siege.”

The material in the video, plus much more, is explained in the Boyd Rice chapter of my book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege.

If you’re a music person familiar with the (endless) argument over if Rice was “just joking,” please share with interested parties—esp those still on the fence.