KNK – Dead Body Music 4 (Album – KNK)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Belgian formation KNK has been busy for a couple of years and has released a few productions.
Content: The band claims to compose ‘dead body music’ and that’s a rather appropriate title for the music they compose. It sounds dark and even tormented; now and then reminding me of the bass lines of Pouppée Fabrikk and next experimenting with Industrial sound treatments reminding me of Dive. I noticed 90s EBM influences but also haunted atmospheres.One of the songs features female vocals by Hilde Ivens (sister of Dirk Ivens).
+ + + : The main strength of this formation is that they’re striving for an own sound. It’s EBM, but with an explicit dark -and ‘dead’, approach. The opening cut perfectly stands for the KNK sound.
– – – : Some songs could have been more elaborated while the sound production is suffering from a lack of professionalism.
Conclusion: I’m not totally convinced, but KNK has something different -maybe unique, from other EBM bands, which incites me to keep an eye on this band.
Best songs: “Bleak Sunset”, “Lifeless”, “Minimal”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/knk8888
Listen to “Dead Body Music IV: The head on the floor”:
About KNK
KNK, also written KnK, is an EBM and industrial duo from Antwerp, Belgium, formed in 2015 by Deejee Ko-en and Koen Vanderstappen. The project takes its name from the two members’ shared first name and describes its own output as “dead body music”, a term it has used as an album title since the start.
The duo began with self-produced CDR releases. Dirk Ivens picked those up for his Daft Records label and issued them in 2016 as “Dead Body Music I + II”. “Dead Body Music III” followed in October 2018.
“Dead Body Music IV: The head on the floor” was released on 1 June 2022 and is available through the Fear the Light Underground productions Bandcamp page. The album runs eight tracks, opening with “Bleak sunset” and continuing through “Angry young girl”, “Chains of love”, “Bloodlust”, “Lifeless”, “The head on the floor”, “In a dream” and “Minimal”. Hilde Ivens, sister of Dirk Ivens, contributes female vocals to one of the songs.
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