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The CNK
12+ albums
industrial metalindustrial black metalblack metalSymphonic Black Metalfrench
about
The CNK plays a kind of Electro Black Metal. The band changed its name two times: from Count Nosferatu, to Count Nosferatu Kommando, and now The CNK, which means "The Cosa Nostra Klub". 1996. After being fired from his first band Malveliance as he was accused of being too bossy with his fellow band members – it seems that his charisma was already a problem for some people – Nicolas Saint Morand (best know under the Hreidmarr moniker) founded the Count Nosferatu Kommando, aka CNK, together with very close friend Jean-Sébastien Ogilvy (aka Heinrich Von B). The boys’ goal was quite simple: to create the dirtiest, meanest and most borderline black metal band ever. CNK scoured the local bars and took part in a few underground festivals with haphazard performances, but they eventually got noticed thanks to the chaotic and quite dangerous atmosphere they delivered through their shows. After two rather badly produced demos and the recording of a track meant to appear on a compilation that would foresee their upcoming musical style, CNK was put aside in 1999, due to Hreidmarr’s busy schedule as he just joined symphonic black metal act Anorexia Nervosa. The band’s real rebirth came in 2002, with the release of properly entitled “Ultraviolence Über Alles” album, on the late Kodiak Records label. This hard to describe and scathing first opus would spread the word about CNK in France, since nobody could be indifferent to it: “Ultraviolence is not a phoney title, since the production and
