KMFDM

   
Artist: KMFDM

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Alternative
   Industrial
   Electronic
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Tohuvabohu

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Best

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 20


   
 Hau Ruck

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 WWIII [World War III]

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 WWIII Live 2003

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Wwiii

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Sturm and Drang Tour 2002

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Boots

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


   
 Attak

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Star Profiled

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 14


   
 Adios

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Retro (Best Of, Compilation)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


   
 Agogo

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Symbols

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


   
 Xtort

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10


   
 Nihil

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Juke-Joint Jezebel - Giorgio Moroder Mixes (Single)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 6


   
 Juke-Joint Jezebel

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 6


   
 Naive and Hell To Go

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11


   
 Naive - Hell To Go

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11


   
 Angst

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Vogue

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 4


   
 Money

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11


   
 Split

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 4


   
 Naive

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 11


   
 UAIOE

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 9


   
 Don't Blow Your Top

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 11


   
 What Do You Know, Deutschland?

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 11


   
 Opium

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 10

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Such industrial alt-metal outfits as Nine Inch Nails and Ministry received the lion's contribution of press and commercial success during the '90s, but on that point were a smattering of early bands that were slugging it out for just as long (if not thirster), including KMFDM. The band's name has been the subject of innumerable debates amongst fans all over the age as to what it stands for (their record company even went as far as property a contest in 1994 for fans to submit possible meanings, resulting in more than a k entries), just the confirmed meaning is Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit, when translated in English agency No Pity for the Majority. The German band has included innumerable members all over the age, but through it all, their leader has remained Sascha Konietzko, whose multi-tasks have included songwriter, producer, mixer, coder, sampler, vocalist, percussionist, bassist, and electronic gadgets.


To begin with formed in Paris, France, KMFDM was founded by Konietzko and German painter/multi-media performing artist Udo Sturm. The duette made their in concert debut on February 29, 1984, when they performed at an opening for an exhibition of European artists at the Grand Palais in Paris (with the show consisting of Sturm playing a synthesist that would dally feedback and Konietzko playing a five-string freshwater bass). The same year, KMFDM issued its debut discharge, Opium, merely Sturm exited the grouping concisely thereafter (some the same sentence, Konietzko was joined by drummer En Esch, wHO would stay with the group from then on out). With Sturm kayoed of the picture, Konietzko and Esch assign KMFDM on hold at first and joined up with New York industrialist Peter Missing to form the rig Missing Foundations. But in front the fresh outfit could issuing whatever recordings, both Konietzko and Esch had dropped out and returned back to KMFDM (Missing Foundations would carry on with replacement members and go on to matter albums on their own from the recent '80s through and through the early '90s).


KMFDM's sophomore elbow grease, What Do You Know Deutschland?, came in 1986 and was the group's first of many for Chicago's far-famed industrial label Wax Trax! But or else of if existence an record album of all new tracks, it was comprised of selections spanning from 1983 through and through 1986 (in fact, several were from prior to Esch's connexion). Around this clock time, KMFDM struck up a relationship with creative person Aidan Hughues (aka Brute!), world Health Organization would steadily furnish cover art for the mathematical group the images would become synonymous with KMFDM's hard-hitting music. Konietzko and ship's company pushed fore with such further '80s releases as 1988's Don't Blow Your Top and 1989's UAIOE, during which KMFDM establish themselves in the midsection of an resistance industrial trend (it didn't hurt matters that Wax Trax! quick became one of the prima industrial labels in the existence, as they were the home to such other likewise styled acts as Ministry, Revco, Front 242, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, etc.).


Merely KMFDM had so far to term of enlistment America by 1989 (having heavy toured Europe with the likes of Einstrüzende Neubauten, the Young Gods, and Borghesia, among others), something they sought to correct when they were offered a expansion slot opening a U.S. tour for labelmates Ministry, world Health Organization at the time were readying their classical The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste discharge. With the tour lined up for a summertime launch, it was pushed endorse several times (due to Ministry leader Al Jourgensen falling ominous) and the turn at last got underway in December 1989. The tour successfully constituted KMFDM as a band to watch over in the industrial underground, as they returned endorse to Europe afterwards the tour's completion to do work on their fifth full-length tone ending overall, 1990's Naïve. Realizing that industrial's future lay in the U.S., Konietzko relocated KMFDM's homebase from Hamburg to Chicago during 1991. The same year, KMFDM's side-project Excessive Force was formed, issuance a debut liberation, Stamp down Your World, in 1992, the same year that KMFDM issued a new release as advantageously, Money.


Merely just as it appeared as though KMFDM was about to break through to a wider audience, Wax Trax! short establish itself on backbreaking times, resulting in the label being bought out by TVT Records. What followed for KMFDM were some of its best-known and strongest releases: 1993's Angst (which earned the grouping their low genuine exposure on MTV via the video clip for the track "Drug Against War"), 1995's Nihil, and 1996's XTORT. During the same time, Excessive Force issued a second release, 1994's Gentle Death, spell Konietzko relocated erstwhile more than, this meter to Seattle. Further releases followed in the late '90s (1997's Symbols, 1998's Agogo, and 1999's Good-by), before KMFDM disbanded on January 22, 1999. In the wake of the group's split, Konietzko assembled a new kit, MDFMK (yep, KMFDM spelled backward) and issued a sole self-titled firing in 2000 earlier KMFDM reunited in 2002 for an all-new album, Attak, and the live record album Sturm & Drang Tour 2002. 2003 saw the release of WWIII followed by WWIII Live 2003 a yr later. Released on KMFDM Records, 2005's Hau Ruck was classical KMFDM with its strong-growing industrial power. The Ruck Zuck EP followed in 2006 with the uncut Tohuvabohu landing in 2007. In summation to stellar KMFDM, Konietzko has as well worked with other artists either playing, producing, or remixing tracks/albums by Die Krupps, Front 242, kidneythieves, M People, Peter Murphy, Pig, Schwein, Sister Machine Gun, and Swamp Terrorists, among others.





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