Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2011

Alleged Acquaintance with Vikernes

In the past, Kanwulf not seldom amused his environment with the allegation that he was personally acquainted with both Per Yngve “Dead” Ohlin (Morbid/Mayhem) and Kristian “Varg” Vikernes a. k. a. Count Grishnakh (Burzum), that he had visited the both of them at the beginning of the nineties in Norway and discussed with them the state of these days’s Black Metal scene. At my attendance in Norway in January ’91, I became acquainted with Vikernes[6], Kanwulf announced in an 1998 interview with German Ablaze magazine. Already at that time, Vikernes had entrusted to him that all of this (Black Metal) was fated to die—[…] and his eyes revealed to me, at that time, that he believed in it[7]. This and similar things, Kanwulf from then on repeated at every arising opportunity (although he was occasionally uncertain about whether he had actually met Vikernes in persona or merely maintained letter contact to him—and often left the meeting with Dead completely unmentioned for obscure reasons), so that at some point he possibly began to believe in it himself.

For well-known reasons, Dead cannot defend himself from these bizarre outgrowths of Kanwulf’s ingenuity anymore. Vikernes, on the other hand, stated, after being approached about Kanwulf by several persons out of the Deutsche Heidnische Front environment, that he had never heard of Kanwulf at all, let alone ever having been in contact to him.

Yes, I asked Varg about this, and his comment on it was, among other things, literally: This guy must be full of shit. Varg said that no foreigners at all—except for Swedish Black Metallers—were to be seen in Oslo at the Helvete back in 1991. Anyway, he hadn’t ever heard about either René ‘Kanwulf’ Wagner or Nargaroth before.[8]

Ronald “Wolf” Möbus (Absurd/Nebelfee Klangwerke) in an e-mail dating from August 7th, 2005

In the face of this, it appears needless to point out again that in this year 1991, in which Kanwulf claimed having perambulated Norway and with two of the most important guidance figures of the early-nineties Norwegian Black Metal wept about the desolate condition of the still young cult, he was at most sixteen years old and, according to everybody who knew him, familiar with Black Metal only from hearsay, if at all.

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