The earliest trace of Velvet Cacoon on the internet is GOD_HAUNT’s Black Metal Audio Page , which is dated to 19/2/1997.
At the bottom of this page is a link to the Black-Ambient geocities page, and associated undernet chat, dated as far back as 1999. Josh’s username on this page is ‘ArcaneBow’. We can see this at the bottom of the homepage here . On the members page we can see that in the ‘Channel Members Playlist’ section, ArcaneBow has chosen Lupus in Fabula by the band Sanctum, which are interviewed and featured elsewhere on the site. At the bottom of the interview , Josh signs off as ‘Josh (gh)’. GH stands for God_Haunt, the same person who ran the Black Metal audio page cited above. Furthermore, at the bottom of this page we can see that God_Haunt’s email address is joshl49@mail.idt.net
So, at this point we can infer that God_Haunt, ArcaneBow and ‘Josh L’ are the same person.