Count Nosferatu Kommando is the side project of Rheidmarr, vocalist of French avant-garde black metallers Anorexia Nervosa. Together with four other individuals he created a strange but powerful combination of black metal and electronic music. From metal they took the screaming vocals, the guitars and keyboards and all this they combined with drumbeats. This works out amazingly well. For instance the opening track ‘Political Police’ begins with a short intro (“ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Count Nosferatu Kommando”) after which the keyboards kick in with a C.O.F./Dimmu like passage accompanied by a house beat (the keyboards are almost similar to COF’s intro to Cruelty and the Beast but that could be coincidence). The overall sound on this album is great. It is in your face and the drum computer plays a dominating role. It is this very element that makes this record stand apart from the huge mass of CD’s that is being released nowadays.

Rheidmarr’s voice is not really different from his vocal parts on the Anorexia Nervosa albums, although some effects are used to make his vocals even more extreme. He now sounds like Dimmu Borgir Shagrath’s adolescent little brother. As for the influences from other bands one could say Count Nosferatu Kommando’s sound can be described as Rammstein meets Cradle of Filth, or Dimmu Borgir meets House music. Fact is that this is an album on which both elements are combined very well. I am however wondering who is actually going to buy this album. For most electro/house fans it’s probably too much metal and for the metalheads out there it’s probably too electronic. This leaves us, open-minded elektro-loving metalheads to support this band. Trust me, they deserve it.