MDFMK

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MDFMK
General information
Genre (s) Industrial rock
founding 1999
resolution 2001
Last occupation
Sascha Konietzko
singing
 Lucia Cifarelli
Bass , vocals
 Tim Skold

MDFMK was a US- based multinational industrial rock band that emerged from KMFDM in 1999 .

Band history

After Sascha Konietzko had dissolved KMFDM in 1999, he wanted to build on his previous work musically, but no longer with changing guest musicians and such different work practices as his band colleagues had shown. He asked for a real bond, which Tim Skold , who worked for KMFDM in 1997 and who, according to Konietzko, should be a workhorse like himself, had given him. Therefore the two recorded the title Missing Time with the last KMFDM guest singer . It was originally intended to accompany a computer game , but this was not realized. Konietzko described the song as a "bridge piece" between KMFDM and MDFMK, because only afterwards the drill singer Lucia Cifarelli was permanently engaged. Cifarelli had recorded a second album in the alternative rock style with Drill , the release of which was postponed several times until the record deal was terminated and there was no longer any prospect of publication. She was depressed and no longer had the strength to drill, she said. She promised herself a clear head and new vigor from a musical change and the request from the band, which had just been named MDFMK, came at just the right time.

The mirrored name should signal both further development and continuity. The group's first and only album entitled MDFMK was released in the USA on March 28, 2000 on Republic Records and on May 29, 2000 in Germany on Motor Music . On April 18, also learned Missing Time on the soundtrack of heavy metal: FAKK² a wide effective use. More than 100,000 units of the album were sold in the USA, sales in the other countries were added, resulting in sales almost as high as in the best KMFDM times ( Nihil ). After the album was finished, Konietzko gave up his studio in Seattle and moved to New York . This was followed by a tour of the USA (the planned detour to Toronto , Canada was omitted). The band was supported live by a robot playing guitar.

After KMFDM was re-established in 2002, there was no longer any need for MDFMK. But if KMFDM should take a break again, Sascha Konietzko can imagine continuing to operate MDFMK, especially since there is still unpublished material.

style

Thorsten Zahn lined up the components in the Metal Hammer : “ Drum 'n' bass parts, techno borrowings , pitched guitars, samples , new metal riffs, Gothic voices, wave atmosphere and many coherent melody lines.” The trio lends “the cold electronic ingredients heat ”. In rock hard , Marcus Schleutermann differentiated the style, because on the one hand it was possible to create "a homogeneous, song-oriented band album that strikes more subtle tones and is no longer so politically radical", on the other hand, there are "enough trademarks, such as the typical riffing and the usual vocal lines ”from the KMFDM era have been preserved. Oliver Hüttmann in Rolling Stone is different , who said: "The anarchic rumble from metal and techno has hardly changed."

Discography

Albums

Others

  • 2000: Missing Time (soundtrack contribution to Heavy Metal: FAKK² )
  • 2000: Rabble Rouser ( compilation contribution to Gravity Games 2000: Summer Sounds Vol. 1 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claudia Nitsche: MDFMK. Twin brother . In: (Hard Rock &) Metal Hammer . July 2000, p. 66 f .
  2. ^ Marcus Schleutermann: MDFMK. KMFDM or what? In: Rock Hard . No. 161 , October 2000, Die Stahlkocher, p. 76 .
  3. ↑ a b Michael Schäfer: KMFDM. Attack . In: (Hard Rock &) Metal Hammer . April 2002, p. 82 .
  4. ↑ John Bush: MDFMK. Review by John Bush. In: allmusic.com. Accessed May 2, 2016 .
  5. ↑ MDFMK . In: Rolling Stone . No. 68 , June 2000, Soon on the shelf, p. 103 .
  6. ↑ Various - Heavy Metal 2000 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. In: discogs.com. Accessed May 2, 2016 .
  7. ^ Jon Wiederhorn: KMFDM Make Industrial Music the Old-Fashioned Way. They Trash Their Hardware. In: waste.org. Retrieved on May 2, 2016 (English, adoption of a Rolling Stone article).
  8. ↑ Corey Moss: MDFMK Prepare for Sonic Assault of US Industrial Icons Will Launch 18-City Tour May 31 in Pomona, Calif. In: mtv.com. May 4, 2000, accessed May 2, 2016 .
  9. ↑ MDFMK. In: angelfire.com. Accessed May 2, 2016 .
  10. ↑ KMFDM: Sascha Konietzko. In: usatoday.com. February 8, 2002, accessed May 2, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Thorsten Zahn: MDFMK. MDFMK . In: (Hard Rock &) Metal Hammer . June 2000, Reviews, p. 100 .
  12. ^ Marcus Schleutermann: MDFMK. MDFMK . In: Rock Hard . No. 157 , June 2000, p. 96 .
  13. ↑ Oliver Hüttmann: MDFMK. MDFMK . In: Rolling Stone . No. 68 , June 2000, Short Cuts, pp. 110 .

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