The Devil’s Blueprint: How Satanic Front Manuals Reveal Its Global Network (Part IV)

The Devil’s Blueprint: How Satanic Front Manuals Reveal Its Global Network (Part IV)

If you wish to read the previous parts of this series they can be found here: PART 1, PART 2, & PART 3

Introduction

In this fourth installment, we confront the macabre world of the Satanic Front, a group that marries violent accelerationism with occult fanaticism. As a competitor of the U.S.-based Order of Nine Angles (O9A) nexions, Satanic front draws inspiration from Temple ov Blood and National Socialist Order of Nine Angle (NSO9A). The members of Satanic Front believe they distinguishes themselves by incorporating ritualistic violence into its operational framework. Unlike the raw nihilism of No Lives Matter (NLM) or the savagery of the Maniacs Murder Cult (M.K.Y.), the Satanic Front turns terror into a grotesque liturgy, imbuing their purported acts with a dark spiritual significance.

However, beneath this layer of ritualized horror lies a pragmatic structure mirroring Terrogram's and the Com Network’s decentralized tactics. Though it initially formed as a U.S.-based organization, in reality Satanic Front operates as a transnational organization, with branches such as Ação Satánica Nacional and Acción Satánica Nacional extending its reach across linguistic and cultural boundaries. These interconnected nexions/kovens reinforce a unified mission of chaos, blending regional distinctions with overarching ideological goals. Connections between Satanic Front and M.K.Y., as well as ideological overlaps with NSO9A, reveal a shared membership and disdain for societal norms and a commitment to chaos. Telegram channels, X accounts, and propaganda materials illustrate both the tactical synergies and the ideological divergences between Satanic Front and their Satanic and nihilistic counterparts. Satanic Front is more known for elaborate ritual texts, personal anecdotes from key members, and a disturbing fixation on “practical evil.” Their publications reinforce the group’s emphasis on spiritual warfare—an essential thread that binds their brand of terroristic extremism to a self-styled apocalyptic mission.

What is the Satanic Front?: Self-Definition and Self-Described Ideology

The Satanic Front defines itself as an occult militant order—one that fuses the spiritual extremes of diabolism with the concrete objectives of extremist militancy. They publicly promote values of white masculinity, with physical fitness, operational cunning, and a fervent devotion to “dark gods” and demonic entities. By their own admission, they reject any notion of mainstream Satanism they deem “whitewashed” or “domesticated,” positioning themselves instead as ruthless agents of chaos who worship violence as both a practical tool and a religious rite.

The group’s ideology marries nihilistic accelerationism with apocalyptic spiritual objectives rooted in a "satanism for dummies" version of the Left Hand Path. They view traditional morality as a Judeo-Christian cage stifling mankind’s potential; thus, they champion murder, desecration, and sabotage as “spiritual” acts in pursuit of a new, darker Aeon.

According to its own handbook and propaganda, Satanic Front has a stated goal of forming and training an operational unit that will be tasked to carry out “on the ground objectives as opposed to the whimsical ‘esoteric’ aims of most organizations and collectives.” Satanic Front also believes in the “serial killer rite” as a key part of its doctrine; this rite bears many similarities to the “ultraviolence challenge submission” within M.K.Y. It is important to note that the rituals and rites practiced by these groups lack the sophistication of true ritualistic practice, suggesting that a propagandistic role is their true purpose.

Targets of Hate and Violence

While the Satanic Front shares some operational overlap with other ideologically motivated violent extremists, their primary targets differ in a few ways:

  1. Religious Institutions:
    They fixate on churches and sacred sites, regarding them as symbols of human “weakness” and spiritual enslavement to be profaned and defiled.
  2. Vulnerable Populations:
    Some of their internal documents exalt predatory acts against individuals deemed “inferior” or “unfit.” In Acción Satánica Nacional - Manual 666, there is repeated endorsement of random or symbolic violence against unsuspecting civilians.
  3. Societal Norms:
    They label mainstream culture as a “rotting husk.” Acts of vandalism or infiltration—particularly in institutions that maintain social order—are boasted as methods to humiliate and destabilize their perceived enemies.

Tactics Promoted

The Satanic Front’s tactical playbook is a patchwork of extremist and occult methods:

  • Leaderless Resistance & Small Cells:
    They favor decentralized groups that plan and execute terror in isolation, minimizing law-enforcement infiltration risks.
  • Occult Ceremonies & Ritual Murders:
    They encourage killers to frame homicide as an elaborate black rite, “baptizing” weapons with demonic invocations (e.g., “Consecration of Weapons in the Name of Azazel”) and dedicating each kill to specific infernal pantheons.
  • Propaganda by Deed:
    Through ritual desecrations and recorded acts of cruelty, they aim to shock the public and recruit others drawn to taboo-breaking violence.
  • Physical Preparedness:
    From hand-to-hand combat to infiltration and sabotage, their operational guides (e.g., Manual 666, Handbook, Compendium) emphasize fitness, stealth, and psychological warfare.

Connection to the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) and Tempel ov Blood

The Order of Nine Angles (O9A) is a UK-born, esoteric Nazi Satanist movement that has spawned numerous offshoots. Many O9A nexions champion a blend of occult knowledge and real-world militancy. The Tempel ov Blood (ToB), in particular, has been one of O9A’s most infamous American nexions, renowned for its extremism and violent rhetoric. The Satanic Front emerges as a direct continuation of these lines:

  • Inheritance of O9A Mythos:
    The group borrows rituals, “dark gods,” and a vocabulary of esoteric war from O9A’s corpus. Essential O9A concepts, such as Aeonic progression through violent upheaval and anti-cosmic sabotage, survive in the Satanic Front’s materials.
  • Tempel ov Blood Rebranding:
    Satanic Front can be seen as the latest stage of ToB’s stateside extremist ambitions. Furthermore, ToB writings have directly endorsed Satanic Front leadership on the now defunct Martinet website. Commandant Cultus/Drako Noctul/Anton Blenzig (deceased April of 2024) was both a key figure in ToB and Satanic Front prior to his death, and was recently memorialized in their Zine The Blighted Path.
    The “Tempel ov Blood” influences remain visible in the shared worship of “sinister forces”, literature promoting child abuse and torture, and chaotic goddess archetypes, as well as in their textual obsession with ritual murder and infiltration tactics.
  • Augmenting O9A with Accelerationism:
    The Satanic Front leans harder than ever on violent accelerationism, bridging the older O9A emphasis on personal “sinister” progression with attacks on a system they desire to unravel.
Left dedication to Commandant Cultus in SF Zine January 1, 2025, Right Endorsement of Commandant Cultus on Martinet Press website November 18, 2020.

In short, the Satanic Front is a next-generation O9A derivative, incorporating the same grisly, but simplified, spiritual ethos and subversive terrorist impetus but amplified through the real-world blueprint of more recent extremist networks. The results are a set of manuals and publications that blur the lines between paramilitary instruction and demonic invocation.

Similarities with the Core Com Network

Both the Satanic Front and the Com Network’s core groups share a foundational commitment to nihilism and misanthropy. They reject societal structures, embracing violence as a means to accelerate collapse. This shared worldview is evident in their tactical guidance, decentralized structures, and glorification of violence. They believe that violence is more than an act of destruction—it is a perverse spiritual calling within Satanic Front lore.

  • Leaderless Resistance:
    The Satanic Front’s emphasis on small, autonomous cells mirrors the Com Network’s championed model of leaderless resistance. Manuals such as Manual 666: National Satanic Action and Acción Satánica Nacional - Manual 666—offer operational advice that aligns closely with Com-affiliated texts. These materials showcase common instructions on ambush tactics, vandalism, and psychological warfare, all designed to maximize fear and societal disruption.
  • Aestheticization of Violence:
    For the Satanic Front, murder becomes a sacrament, transforming killers into what they call “priests of chaos.” Similarly, Com Network groups portray mass killers as icons of rebellion, celebrating their actions as expressions of nihilistic defiance. Through a fascination with true crime and and mass casualty attacks, both networks exploit the appeal of taboo to recruit new adherents.

Divergences in Ideology and Tactics

Where Satanic Front diverges from the Com Network is in its occult framework. Unlike the largely secular nihilism of NLM and M.K.Y., Satanic Front embeds its ideology in a spiritual narrative and conflict. Rituals like the “Serial Killer Rite” and invocations of demonic entities such as Glasya-Labolas turn acts of violence into quasi-religious ceremonies. This metaphysical layer offers adherents a sense of spiritual purpose beyond immediate destruction.

  • Targets and Symbolism:
    The Satanic Front literature prioritizes acts of desecration and sacrilege, attacking religious institutions as symbols of humanity’s frailty. They sacralize violence through cosmic metaphors and demonological language, thus setting Satanic Front apart. Previous texts from the Com Network prioritize simply causing chaos without the need for a spiritual war.
  • Aesthetic Presentation:
    The group’s materials are steeped in occult imagery and poetic spiritual language. By contrast, Com Network texts lean heavily on blunt, utilitarian instructions. The Satanic Front has a flair for demonic narratives and gore-laden storytelling becomes even more apparent. Stories such as “The Stick Lady” or “Bringer of Light” situate terror within vividly surreal, ritualistic contexts that might appear gratuitously shocking to outsiders, yet the authors claim they carry deep symbolic meaning for members.

The Satanic Front as a Transnational Network

The Satanic Front’s transnational structure is reflected in its nexions—Ação Satánica Nacional (Brazil), Acción Satánica Nacional (Latin America), and the broader Satanic Front (United States). These branches share a unified vision of chaos, adapting propaganda to local contexts while maintaining ideological cohesion. The overlap in materials like Manual 666 and coordinated recruitment efforts highlight their interconnectedness.

  1. Ação Satánica Nacional - Manual 666 attributed to Daemon Carnifex:
    • Combines operational and ideological instructions.
    • Emphasizes ritual murder and small-cell tactics.
    • The “Ritual of Glasya-Labolas Devotees” depicts murder as a path to spiritual enlightenment.
  2. Acción Satánica Nacional - Manual 666 attributed to Daemon Carnifex:
    • Similar structure, though geared toward Spanish-speaking cells.
    • Offers elaborate and ritualistic instructions: from “Consecration of Weapons in the Name of Azazel” to “A Practical Guide for Sadistic Hunters.”
    • Encourages strict physical training for would-be “Dark Soldiers.”
  3. Satanic Front - Handbooks:
    • A more foundational text focusing on philosophy, operational structure, and the need for disciplined training.
    • Positions the group as an uncompromising force championing “Satanic devotion” and a militant, real-world approach to chaos.

Alliance with the Com Network

Despite occult differences, Satanic Front’s connections with M.K.Y. and other Com groups. These manifestos from Satanic Front illustrate the fluidity of extremist networks. In the third edition of the Haters Handbook, it is written that there are alliances between M.K.Y., Satanic Front, National Socialist Order of the Nine Angles, and No Lives Matter that are mentioned, indicating the intermingling of a transnational threat actor like M.K.Y. with the threat landscape of the United States and its allies. The Leader of M.K.Y. was interviewed in a Satanic Front Publication in 2023, prior to his arrest in a prevented terror plot in New York City.

Manifesto Key Points

  1. Satanic Front - The Handbook (1st Edition)
    1. Foundational in establishing the group’s emphasis on “real action” over “whimsical esotericism.”
    2. Content focuses on glorifiying infamous murderers, outlines infiltration tactics, sets physical fitness standards.
    3. Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs):
      1. Hierarchical Minimalism: Fluid command structures with minimal leadership to reduce infiltration risks.
      2. Serial Killer Ritualization: Integrating murder with spiritual rites, framing killings as religious acts.
      3. Infrastructure Attacks: Sabotaging railways, power lines, or water supplies as symbolic offerings.
      4. Rigorous Physical Conditioning: Running, high-crawling, agility drills to enable quick getaways after violent acts.
      5. Combat Training: Hand-to-hand combat and infiltration tactics to maximize operational efficiency.
  2. Satanic Front - The Handbook (2nd Edition)
    1. Enhanced encryption and communication protocols to maintain their operational secrecy and prevent infiltration.
    2. Psychological manipulation techniques to induce fear, compliance, and psychological dominance in both threat actors and targets.
    3. Integration of new occult rituals to strengthen the connection between physical operations and spiritual rites.
    4. Incorporating advanced endurance, strength training, and combat agility exercises to prepare operatives for more complex missions.
    5. TTPs:
      1. Stealth techniques for silent movement and undetected operations.
      2. Resource acquisition strategies for obtaining necessary materials (weapons, tools) without drawing attention.
      3. Survival tactics and training for surviving pursuit and maintaining operational integrity under duress.
  3. Satanic Front - Compendium
    1. A thorough anthology detailing the group’s core doctrines and advanced ritual instructions.
    2. Content focuses on ritual sacrifices, summoning ceremonies, vandalism, ambushes, and close-quarters combat.
    3. Features a mixture of mundane sabotage instructions and occult transformations.
    4. (Esoteric) TTPs:
      1. Detailed steps for invoking demonic entities to empower violent acts.
      2. Defacing religious symbols and public spaces with occult slogans and pentagrams.
      3. Close-quarters combat (CQC) & improvised weapons training .
      4. Spiritual warriors paradigm by cultivating an inner demon through meditation and dark rituals to enable amoral actions.
  4. Ação Satânica Nacional - Manual 666
    1. Authored by Daemon Carnifex; outlines the group’s fusion of violence, ritual, and spiritual transcendence.
    2. In Portuguese, core focus is on a Latin American expansions.
    3. Combines operational and ideological instructions.
    4. Emphasizes ritual murder and small-cell tactics.
    5. The “Ritual of Glasya-Labolas Devotees” depicts murder as a path to spiritual enlightenment.
    6. Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs):
      1. Low-cost assassinations using improvised weapons like knives, cleavers, and blunt instruments.
      2. Ritual acts, such as cutting oneself or a sacrifice before an ambush, purportedly “charge” the operator with dark energy.
      3. Infiltration of personal spaces with menacing items (e.g., cryptic notes, satanic markings) to induce panic.
      4. Quick disposal of evidence, minimal digital footprints, burner phones, and encryption.
      5. Urban camouflage to blend in at night, capitalizing on leaderless resistance.
  5. Acción Satánica Nacional - Manual 666
    1. A near twin text in Spanish, with more intricate sections on weapon consecration, sadistic hunts, and dark soldier training.
    2. Guidance on low-cost, high-impact methods for conducting assassinations and assaults.
    3. TTPs:
      1. Weapon “Baptism” (Azazel Rites): Demonic energies invoked to “baptize” weapons, merging operational readiness with occult potency.
      2. CQC silent takedowns and rapid joint destruction.
      3. Urban camouflage & ambush techniques by utilizing alleyways, abandoned buildings, or traffic junctions for surprise attacks.
      4. Squad-level tactics via coordinated infiltration, sabotage, and group assassinations.
      5. Psychological manipulation to induce fear and chaos within targeted communities.
  6. Bloodied Valor
    1. Authored under Blair Tyrant; leans heavily into symbolic and aesthetic violence.
    2. Positions killers as warriors in a cosmic battle against societal oppression.
    3. has a dark aesthetic—photos, insignia, ominous slogans—aimed to attract an audiences fascination with taboo.
    4. Emphasizing brutality through rapid-lunge stabs and controlling victims’ limbs.
    5. Self-induced frenzy through ritualistic self-flagellation and dark chanting to enhance combat readiness and psychological dominance.
  7. The Blighted Path – Volume One, Issue One
    1. The newest publication, amplifies the group’s aesthetic darkness.
    2. Narrative-driven violence
      1. via short Stories (e.g., “Practical Evil,” “Krull the Deicider,” “Predator”), and surreal ritual instructions such as “Cairn of Obscenity” or “Visions of Hell.”). Focus is on turning mass murder or mythical assassinations into diabolical epics, encouraging operatives to view violence as a heroic act.
      2. Mythos creation using storytelling to create a shared mythos that glorifies their violent actions. Contains essays
    1. Personal confessions & “practical evil” essays focused on sharing member experiences and motivations to build internal solidarity. The texts detail micro-acts of transgression to instill subtle chaos in everyday settings.
    1. Encourages an extreme synergy of violence, sexuality, and diabolism.
      1. Rituals Involving Sexualized Brutality: Encouraging acts that blend sexual fetishism with violent rituals to break psychological barriers and enhance devotion.
      2. Sexual Assault as Ritual: Framing sexual violence as an essential component of their spiritual practices.
    2. Instructions for rituals performed under extreme physical or psychological stress, such as exhaustion or intoxication. Combining drugs with sacrificial acts to amplify the sense of cosmic terror and spiritual enlightenment.

These texts highlight how Satanic Front is both deeply hostile to mainstream society and enthralled with subverting moral norms. Each new publication grows progressively more graphic and more bizarre in its depiction of ritual violence, gleaning a quasi-apocalyptic tone.

Aestheticization of Fear and Power

The Satanic Front romanticizes violence, transforming it into a perverse art form. Killers are exalted as creators, their victims dehumanized into twisted canvases. This aestheticization, underscored throughout their manuals and especially in The Blighted Path, casts brutality as a dark sacrament, fueling a sense of godlike invincibility among members.

  • Fear as a Tool:
    By framing violence as both art and ritual, the Satanic Front shifts their grotesque acts from mere crime to extreme spiritual warfare. This exploitative approach seduces recruits who seek danger, identity, and a supernatural sense of purpose.
  • Spiritual and Physical Fusion:
    The combination of physical and sexual violence with occult rituals creates a dual reinforcement mechanism—where physical and sexual acts of terror strengthen spiritual beliefs, and vice versa. This fusion ensures that acts of violence are not only operational successes but also spiritual milestones within the group’s belief system.
  • Symbolic Sacraments:
    Rituals like the “Serial Killer Rite” or “Consecration of Weapons” elevate violent actions to sacramental status, embedding each act of terror with deeper symbolic meaning. This transformation of violence into ritualistic acts serves to dehumanize both the perpetrators and their victims, making each act a step towards spiritual transcendence.

Conclusion

The Satanic Front represents a macabre evolution of extremist propaganda, merging the nihilistic destruction of the Com Network with an occult veneer. Its rituals and doctrines spiritualize terror, recasting atrocities as twisted performances for demonic redemption. Beneath the mysticism, however, is a decentralized operational model that overlaps significantly with other violent extremist groups like M.K.Y. and NLM.

The group continuously refines its blueprint for orchestrating chaos in both physical and spiritual realms. Understanding both the similarities (shared extremist tactics) and the differences (occult esotericism and ritual murder) between Satanic Front and non-occultic violent extremist networks is critical . Each new publication is a testament to the adaptability and allure of esotericism and satanism—fusing cosmic rebellion, demonic worship, and violent subversion into a singular, horrifying brand of chaos.

In the aftermath, all that remains is a gruesome testament to the draw of extremism: a swirl of dark ritual and violent accelerationism coalescing into a threat that is simultaneously metaphysical and tangible. As the group’s publications repeatedly warn, their ultimate aim is nothing less than a destructive apocalypse that they alone hope to survive—and rule.