In early 2000, Kanwulf finally discovered the World Wide Web’s advantages in terms of target-group-appropriate rumour-spreading. Instead of an own Web site, however, Kanwulf chose the discussion forum of the Eternity magazine for his stage.
It started in April 2000, when under the name of “Charoon”—as is generally known, at that time a session musician for Nargaroth (sole musician, according to other voices, but that’s another story)—an entry with the title “Nargaroth rocks” was made, in which—nomen est omen—Nargaroth and especially Kanwulf personally were praised to the very skies. In the months after that, a number of not less enthusiastic entries followed, partly composed by trend-induced adolescents (vulgo: “fans”), partly, however, by persons who apparently possessed a lot of insider knowledge, namely “josh” and—awfully creative—“.....”.
On June 27th, 2001, Kanwulf posted an entry under the name of “KvN” in order to defend himself and No Colours Records against some accusations concerning commerciality that came up in the forum. That this “KvN” was actually identical with the real (well, “real”) Kanwulf, the latter never denied. Quite the contrary, Kanwulf offered everybody to verify this for themselves by means of an e-mail to his then widely known AOL address. In the course of a later conversation about Nargaroth—again users such as “josh” or “.....” interfered, idolised Kanwulf and mantra-like recited the ever-same lies around Nargaroth—finally one user expressed the suspicion that Kanwulf himself was hiding behind the alias “.....”. The discussion developed, harshened and reached its dramaturgical climax when “.....”, in reaction on some of Kanwulf’s lies being exposed as such in the forum by “Wolf” Möbus (Absurd), threatened the latter’s then-ten-months-old son.
Eventually, the administrator of the Eternity forum could by means of the logged IP addresses doubtlessly prove that the postings from “josh”, “Charoon”, “.....” and “KvN” were all sent from the same computer, a computer located at the University of Leipzig, which Kanwulf attended at that time. From which, again, with a probability bordering on certainty results that Kanwulf pretended to be other persons in order to strengthen his own credibility, to confirm his own lies as an allegedly uninvolved third person. So as “josh” he confirmed the wrong release dates of the Orke EP and the Herbstleyd demo as well as the lie that he was acquainted with Vikernes. Even the name of Charoon—who, according to associates, doesn’t even know what a PC looks like—he abused for this purpose, under it keenly participating on various discussions, always eager to create the impression that the real (“real”) Kanwulf would indeed match the fantasy figure carefully built-up in interviews.
All of this led to, firstly, Kanwulf vainly attempting to lie himself out again by means of another entry on December 5th, 2001. And, secondly, that in the course of the North American Black Metal Invasion concert in Bitterfeld, “Wolf” Möbus—father of a threatened child—broke Kanwulf’s nose, Kanwulf cowering on the ground, through shieldingly raised hands whining: “Wolf, it wasn’t me!” A true warrior’s behaviour indeed …
Closing Words
If you regard me as scum, all I can say to them or to you is: Welcome to the club.[15]
Kanwulf (as “KvN/Ash”) in the Eternity discussion forum, December 5th, 2001
It is possible that this document will at some time be supplemented by further of Kanwulf’s stories. Some worth being further examined certainly are:
the one around the Annaberg-Buchholz club Chicago, about which Kanwulf wrote in the Black Metal ist Krieg booklet that to some of us ancient ones, it and the cult concerts that took place there at the beginning of the nineties are still well-known[16] (and similar things at other occasions) and which—or rather: the ruins of which—he in truth set foot in for the first time years after it burned to the ground at the end of the nineties—for the sole reason to take pictures to illustrate his lies in the Black Metal ist Krieg booklet with (needless to say that not a single person of the early Annaberg-Buchholz Metal scene ever heard of Kanwulf prior to the end of the nineties)—,
the one around a breakneck flight from a gig in the Erlangen club New Force, which Kanwulf claimed having managed clung to the bottom of a car (!), but which miraculously neither the owners of the club nor the visitors of that concert are able to remember,
the one around Kanwulf’s alleged imprisonment for manslaughter, which at some occasions he claimed having committed in 1991 during his time at the military (It was during my time at the Bundeswehr, when, after a heated quarrel, the incident occurred […][17]—Ablaze magazine, 1998) and at others during a Nargaroth concert (At the same day, I made a concert with Nargaroth […]. During that concert, some shit happened, and after all, I killed a visitor of the concert.—Black Light magazine, 2001),
the one around that nameless “soul-mate” of Kanwulf, who he claimed got known to in 1992 and lost to suicide three years later, but about whom even the closest of Kanwulf’s former companions are convinced that the only place he ever existed is Kanwulf’s imagination, that he is just another means of the mystification of Nargaroth in general and the fantasy figure of “Kanwulf” in particular.
Reliable informations that could possibly aid the further growth of this document and thus further damage to Nargaroth are very much appreciated and can be addressed to my e-mail address.
About this Document
Written by Shaddai in order to fill various uneventful evenings of the years 2005 and 2006 with meaning. Scanning of Runenblut article and digitalisation of my VHS recording of Kanwulf’s talk-show appearance by Oliver T.
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