![]() ![]() ![]() Ford had written in numerous published interviews that his goal was to upset and redefine the often-stagnant occult genre with an "Adversarial" approach. The group practiced magick as a Coven during this time period.In 2003 Ford began publishing chapbooks and distributing them at low cost throughout the Satanic and Left Hand Path underground, which was designed as a type of "hit and run" guerrilla tactic. The band recorded several albums from that point on, performing several live rituals. Michael's interest in the works of Austin Osman Spare, Kenneth Grant and the mythology of the Adversary throughout the history of humanity were his primary interest during that time.In 2001 Ford met Dana Dark, a gothic model and vocalist from Houston, and two others to begin recording ritual workings and the practice of the specific "luciferian" magick. ![]() Ford continued working on music and recorded several ritual-music albums in the late 1990s, under the band name Psychonaut. Ford left the active ONA due to what he has described as its Neo-Fascist stance and political ideals, which in his view are not an inherent part of Magick or Satanism.Michael spent several years developing his Magickal practice between 19, when moving to Houston, Texas in October 1999 and editing his Book of the Witch Moon, where he had previously corresponded with Kenneth Grant. Ford studied the history of occultism and magick for some time before joining various left hand path orders from 1993 to 1995.Recording with Black Funeral and Darkness Enshroud, a ritualistic-darkwave band, Ford relocated for the first time to Houston, Texas, having just recorded and released his first industrial record, Valefor - Death Magick on Cold Meat Industries "Death Factory Records" in 1996.Michael Ford was granted the Order of Nine Angles command by Christos Beest in 1996, from which Ford operated until 1998 in Indianapolis. Ford's interest in Magick and specifically Satanism was into its early phase, echoed in Ford's lyrics at the time. ![]() Ford and his family lost all of their possessions in Hurricane Andrew in 1992, as a result of which Ford moved to Indianapolis and started Black Funeral with various session members. In the late 1980s Ford attended The Cushman School in Miami, Florida, where he found an interest in music and history.In 1990 Ford started playing in death-metal bands in Indianapolis, having spent time there again before relocating to Homestead and the Miami area in 1991. Ford began writing horror fiction as a child. His older brother, Mark, was a successful drummer who was on the road through most of Ford's early years. Ford was born in 1976 to William and Judith Ford. ![]()
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