Angst - KMFDM

Advantages: It's Not Depeche Mode
Disadvantages: Not Cordless

...Prior to the release of this album KMFDM had undergone a fair bit of upheval. The previous album Adios had been intended to the last due to a difference in opinion. After Adios founder member Sasha Komietzko regrouped under the name MDFMK. The MDFMK line up became the line up of KMFDM that recorded this album. The result of this upheval is a band sounding like they have something to prove, which is always a good thing, complacency is never good when making music. The album varies from the epic with "Attack/Realod" with it's swirling synths and guitars superb bass playing by Bill Reflin (Former drummer with Ministry, now drumming with REM), and great contrasting heavily effects laden male vocals and clean female vocals, and " Urban Monkey Warfare" which treats us to more to the same. To downright sleazy with "Dirty" and "YoHoHo" which... Read review

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Advantages: new direction
Disadvantages: does'nt appeal to older fans as much

...KMFDM area fantastic band pretty much paveing the path for the future generations of industrial rockers, I believe this is there best album to date although I know some fans will disagree. On this album there taking a more metal based guitar sound surrounded by the beats and samples associated with past albums, oppose to the guitars being subtley around beats and samples, to experience how good this album is would be to go see them play it live as there music is intense and lively tracks that stick out on the album are WW3, blackball and stars and stripes, these are all still very politically based tracks, but the big picture is based around iraq and what seemed at the time of the album being relesed the possible start too a large scale war. I would say this album is a bit hit or miss with fans of the old albums as this is pretty much... Read review

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Advantages: No Pity For The Majority
Disadvantages: Tyrany, Terror and Lawless Violence

...KMFDM have been going since 1984 making some of the best industrial dance music this side of the old berlin wall. KMFDM stands for Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid, which loosly translated means No Pity For The Majority. It also stands for Kyle Minogue Fans Dont Masturbate, Kill MotherF***ing Depeche Mode and Kinky Masturbators Find Dirty Magazines and many other suggestions by the band and fans. As you may have guessed from that they have a fairly dry sense of humor which is not unusuall for an industrial band, but they are a bit more obvious about having a dry sense of humor than their peers are. (This means that music journalists can spot the humor) I bought the a signed copy of the CD from their website for $16 plus $4-80 P&P considering that it is on sale at HMV for nearly £17 this is an absolute bargain, and the cash goes directly... Read review

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