KMFDM

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KMFDM
KMFDM (2011)
KMFDM (2011)
General information
Genre (s) Industrial rock
founding 1984
Website www.kmfdm.net
Founding members
Sascha Konietzko
Original conception, no musical contribution
 Udo Sturm
Current occupation
Vocals , M16 bass, analog synthesizers , guitar , keyboards , programming and editing, producer of all recordings
 Sascha Konietzko
singing
 Lucia Cifarelli
guitar
 Andee Blacksugar
Andy Selway
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Xtort
  US 92 07/13/1996 (3 weeks)
Symbol
  US 137 10/11/1997 (2 weeks)
Adios
  US 189 05/08/1999 (1 week)

KMFDM ( No Majority For Die Pity ) is an industrial metal group that started on February 29, 1984 as part of the opening of an exhibition of young European artists in the Grand Palais in Paris on the initiative of Sascha Konietzko and Udo Sturm from the multinational art group “Erste Help ”emerged. KMFDM is an acronym for the deliberately nonsensical and grammatically incorrect German title “No majority for the sympathy”. Musicians from different countries, including Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the USA, have been involved since the project began. The singer and front man Sascha Konietzko comes from Hamburg, Germany, which is why some album titles, music titles and lyrics are partly or entirely in German . The band's trademarks are mostly album titles made up of five (script) characters as well as the interweaving of the band's name in the lyrics.

Band history

After the founding, the Englishman Raymond “Pig” Watts and En Esch (Klaus Schandelmaier) completed the line-up on drums. KMFDM recorded some pieces with various guest musicians such as Bill Rieflin and Nivek Ogre from Skinny Puppy or Nina Hagen, and some of them went on tour with these artists.

KMFDM left the musical "Hamburg Underground" after the first, unreleased album Opium . With the growing success of American industrial metal / industrial rock bands at the end of the 1980s, especially Ministry , KMFDM also gained increasing popularity. First the band signed with the Wax Trax label in Chicago . This is followed by appearances in the opening act for Ministry. In early 1991 Sascha Konietzko decided to relocate KMFDM to Chicago in the USA. This was followed by the first tour as a headliner in the United States with the album Money .

When the band toured the US for the first time, journalists who couldn't speak German were given different English meanings for KMFDM, e.g. B. Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode , Kidnap Madonna For Drug Money, and Kylie Minogue Fans Don't Masturbate . After Wax Trax went bankrupt, Sascha Konietzko moved to Seattle , En Esch moved to New Orleans . The album Xtort was created in Seattle and the album was titled and quoted either as "EMOJI" or as "Symbols" with five symbols from the comic design language (explosion charisma, skull, bomb, curl, fist). A number of guest musicians made their contributions to both.

On January 22, 1999, KMFDM disbanded and released Adios, their last album to date. En Esch founded a new project with Guenter Schulz under the name Slick Idiot , while Sascha Konietzko founded MDFMK in 2000 together with Tim Skold (ex- Shotgun Messiah ) and the ex-drill singer Lucia Cifarelli , and with this line-up an album on Republic Records published.

occupation

In 2002 Sascha Konietzko reformed KMFDM with the following cast:

  • Sascha Konietzko
  • Lucia Cifarelli
  • Skold , who in the same year to Marilyn Manson moved
  • Raymond Watts
  • Dorona Alberti
  • Bill Rieflin, from 2003 drummer with REM
  • Jules Hodgson

Live line-up since 2002:

  • Sascha Konietzko: vocals, synthesizers
  • Lucia Cifarelli: vocals, synthesizers
  • Andy Selway: drums
  • Jules Hodgson: guitar
  • Steve White: guitar

Discography

KMFDM at a concert in Halifax 2005

Studio albums

year title Remarks
1984 opium Re-release in 2002
1986 What Do You Know, Germany? digitally remastered re-release in 2006
1988 Don't blow your top digitally remastered re-release in 2006
1989 UAIOE digitally remastered re-release in 2006
1990 Naïve digitally remastered re-release in 2006
1992 Money digitally remastered re-release in 2006
1993 fear digitally remastered re-release in 2006
1995 Nihil digitally remastered re-release 2007
1996 Xtort digitally remastered re-release 2007
1997 Symbol digitally remastered re-release 2007
1999 Adios digitally remastered re-release 2007
2002 Attak
2003 WWIII
2005 Jerk
2007 Tohuvabohu
2009 lightning
2011 WTF ?!
2013 art
2014 Our time will come
2016 Rocks (Milestones Reloaded)
2017 Hell yeah
2019 Paradise

Live albums, compilations and remixes

year title Remarks
1995 Year of the Pig
1998 Retrяo
1998 Agogo
2002 Sturm & Drang Tour 2002 Live album
2003 WWIII Live 2003 Live album
2004 84-86
2008 Extra, volume 1–3 Three compilations of two CDs each with remix and previously unreleased material
2008 Fuss Remix material for Hau Ruck and Tohuvabohu
2010 war Remix material for Blitz
2010 Sausage / Greatest Shit Best of compilation
2018 Live in the USSA Live album

Singles and EPs

year title Remarks
1987 Kickin 'ass
1988 Don't blow your top
1989 More & Faster
1989 virus
1990 Godlike
1991 Split
1992 Vogue
1992 Money + cash
1992 Help Us / Save Us / Take Us Away
1992 Sucks
1993 A Drug Against War
1994 Light
1994 Glory
1995 Jezebel juke joint
1995 Brute
1995 Trust EP
1996 power
1996 Rules
1997 Megalomaniac
1998 MDFMK Remix EP
2002 boots
2006 In no time at all Remix EP
2010 Godlike 2010 Remix EP
2010 Light 2010 Remix EP
2011 Ill
2012 Amnesia
Guitarist Jules Hodgson at a concert in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada 2004

Video albums

year title format
1996 A Drug Against War VHS
1996 Jezebel juke joint VHS
1996 Son of a Gun VHS
1997 Megalomaniac VHS
1997 Beat by beat by beat VHS
2001 Beat by beat by beat DVD
2003 Sturm & Drang Tour 2002 DVD
2004 WWIII Live 2003 DVD
2005 20th Anniversary World Tour 2004 DVD

Web links

Commons : KMFDM  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US chart history
  2. ↑ http://www.kmfdmfaq.com/ (tar 29MB)
  3. ↑ KMFDM History . KMFDM Inc. Archived from the original on February 22, 1998. Retrieved January 20, 2019: "KMFDM IS AN ACRONYM FOR: NO MAJORITY FOR THE MAJORITY (WHICH LOOSELY TRANSLATED MEANS: NO PITY FOR THE MAJORITY)". The translation into English is not correct, but it said so.