Johnny Royal

Johnny Royal (born John Michael Herrera, June 12, 1976) is an American musician, film and commercial director, composer, entrepreneur, novelist, and occultist. Royal is best known as the founding member of the industrial rock band Black Lodge, and as the director of the feature length documentary film, The Royal Art of Freemasonry, which was filmed over the course of six years and is the first feature length documentary to explore every degree of the Freemasons, including the Master Mason, Knights Templar, and 33rd degrees.

Contents

• Personal life
• Television
• Filmography
• References

Royal is an established commercial director and composer. Additionally, he is recognized for his associated compositions and recording sessions with record producers Jeordie White aka Twiggy Ramirez, Sean Beavan, Lee Miles, Zach Webb, and Grammy-nominated producer Johnny K.

As an entrepreneur, Royal is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of creative advertising agency Dragon Creative, and had been the CEO of creative advertising agencies The Realm, and Luthier Society, and the Chief Marketing Officer of New York-based advertising agency Indelible Media.

Royal's work as a novelist deals primarily with the occult. He is finishing his debut novel, Canonicum Wytcha (The Witch's Canon), which discusses and illustrates the occult practices of the traditional Witchcraft clan, Coven of the Blazing Hand, whose rituals involve symbolic Tempestarii magic or "Storm Witchcraft."

Alongside the novel, Royal is also working on new material for release from Black Lodge, and a screenplay for a mystery thriller film tentatively titled Let There Be Light, which is based on events taken directly from the transcribed manuscripts of the controversial secret society known as the Illuminati.