Author of over 23 books, Composer of dark ambient & ritualistic music, American Black Metal pioneer, Michael W. Ford is a leading Luciferian visionary and Left Hand Path Adept. Some titles include: Michael is the Co-Owner of the Luciferian Apotheca, a dedicated Left Hand Path occult supply shop, Succubus Productions and the publishing house, Succubus Books. His ritualistic dark ambient project, AKHTYA, has recorded and released numerous ritualistic soundscapes and meditation music; currently Mr. Ford also records industrial-ritual music and black metal with Black Funeral and Valefor. Darkness Enshroud, a black ritualistic chant and ghostly soundscape project is to soon release a new album focused on the archetype and symbolism of the Medieval Antichrist traditions and art. Past projects include both Hexentanz and Psychonaut 75. Michael W. Ford is a Magus in The Order of Phosphorus and the Black Order of the Dragon, also an Archon and Co-President in Greater Church of Lucifer.