The Cosa Nostra Klub

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The CNK is a french electro-metal band, founded in Clermont-Ferrand (France) in 1996 by Mr Hreidmarr (former singer of Anorexia Nervosa) and Mr Heinrich Von B. The band has changed their name three times: Count Nosferatu, Count Nosferatu Kommando and now it has been renamed in 2006 The Cosa Nostra Klub

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[edit] Biography

[edit] 1996–2002

Starting as a raw black metal group, The CNK, then named Count Nosferatu, is a teenage band consisting of five members, who didn't even have the same music tastes. They separated in 1998.

[edit] 2002-2005

After joining Anorexia Nervosa in 1998, Hreidmarr will focus on his new group and The CNK will have to wait another 4 years before a new album is released, Ultraviolence Über Alles, in 2002. This new album is described as a mix of guitars, guns and war machines, to create a massive and violent sound. The band had only one rule: to go behind the limits, using as many effects as needed to create a completely new sound, very machine-like. Unfortunately, the band did not have a solid formation and was therefore unable to play their new album live.

[edit] 2005-Present

On the 20th of December 2005, Hreidmarr departed from Anorexia Nervosa. Even though he was still working on The CNK during his free time with Heinrich, things speeded up after Hreidmarr's departure. The duo recruited Sylvicious of Tamtrum and the (in)famous parisian designer Valnoir of Metastazis. Their new album would have a very different sound than their first album as they would use a completely new way of creating an album. Instead of starting off with guitar riffs and drum beats, they used remixed samples of classical music from various composers, such as Beethoven, Orff, Prokofiev and Tchaïkovski. "The CNK dream team is now complete and ready to grind, raze, crush, and piss you off with an incredibly heavy opus of Wagner-like and anti-politically correct electro-metal. Entitled "L'Hymne à la Joie", the band's sophomore album is produced by Stefan Bayle (ANOREXIA NERVOSA), and sounds like Carl Orff drinking Martini with Rammstein and Alec Empire, sitting together on a heap of human corpses, rambling on the death of our modern world."[1]

The album was very well received by the public and the band began touring on April 11th 2008, playing songs from both albums. They are currently working on a reedition of Ultraviolence Über Alles, which is now sold-out, a video and a third opus. They hinted that this new album would not use classical samples and would be more tragic than the other two. [2]

[edit] Discography

  • Das Schwarze Order (1996) - Demo
  • Soleil Noir (1998) - Demo
  • Ultraviolence Über Alles (2002) - Album
  • L'Hymne à la Joie (2007) - Album

[edit] Band Members

[edit] Current members

  • Mr Heinrich Von B (Jean-Sébastien Ogilvy : guitar, vocals)
  • Mr Hreidmarr (Nicolas St Morand : vocals, former-Anorexia Nervosa, former-Crack ov Dawn, former-Malveliance, former-My Darkest Dream)
  • Mr Valnoir (Jean-Emmanuel Artfield-Lautrec : bass, vocals) (Metastazis)
  • Mr Sylvicious (Sylvain Deslaves : drums, member of Tamtrum, drummer of Lucky Striker 201, and former drummer of Punish Yourself)

[edit] Former members

  • Grafin Orlock (keyboards)
  • Melissa De Sainte Croix (Melissa DSC) (bass)
  • Doktor Holocausto (drums)
  • Athevros (guitars)
  • Sir Orias (bass)
  • Morbus Gravis (bass)
  • Lord Sidragazum (drums)

[edit] References

  1. ^ The CNK Official Myspace. The CNK. Retrieved on 2008-05-12.
  2. ^ The CNK Interview. Imm3moria. Retrieved on 2008-05-12.

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