Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2011

Bashing against Various Bands

Since he came into reach of a broader listenership by Nargaroth’s first musical sign of life, Herbstleyd, back in 1998, Kanwulf indulged himself in incessant bickering against particularly the bands Mystic “Circus”, Impending Doom and Agathodaimon, especially the involved individuals Martin “Sathonys” Wickler, Marc “Graf von ‘Brezelbub’” Zimmer and an Impending Doom bandsman remaining unnamed here. Referred be to not only Kanwulf’s wailing in numerous interviews but as well to the widely known backprint of the Black Metal ist Krieg shirt, the Amarok booklet and the public burning of Mystic Circle merchandise on various occasions.

He-he, no comment [concerning the phrase ‘Black Metal ist Krieg’]. Only this: Sometimes Black Metal is a good cover to hide the true motivations for ranting against some bands or individuals, too. I just think it’s a pity that Kanwulf built his reputation on numerous lies. Music-wise, he wasn’t really in need of it; even I liked the debut a lot.[14]

Sathonys (Agathodaimon) in an interview with the Web zine bloodchamber.de, 2002

In order to reason his aversion, Kanwulf used to argue that these bands and individuals weren’t close to the spirit of the music. This remains undisputed here, of course, but it should be apparent by now that Kanwulf’s whole obtrusively flaunted “dedication to the cult” is nothing but a cunning charade and thus of little plausibility as a reason. And sporadically, one certainly asked oneself as early as the late nineties why Kanwulf picked just these bands—even more: individuals—out of the vast mass of buffoons that the majority of Black Metal creators, after all, is.


Kanwulf, burning a Mystic Circle T-Shirt
First of all, it should be noted that—for once—Kanwulf’s agitation isn’t just words in this case, but—at least until, say, 2002—expression of sincere personal feelings. The motivation for it, however, is completely different from the one alleged: All of the afore-mentioned persons, accused by Kanwulf of not being close to the spirit of the music, were former fiancés or at least transient affairs of his then-wife. This as well as his then-wife’s liaison with virtually everybody who convincingly professes being capable of holding a guitar the right way around “unfortunately” wasn’t known to Kanwulf before the marriage.

We can thus conclude that Kanwulf would like to have even highly personal jealousies understood as indicators for his alleged “dedication to the cult”.

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