KMFDM Unleash 15th Album
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Monday, July 16, 2007 @ 5:29 PM
Tohuvabohu
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Press release:
2007 marks the return of seminal artists KMFDM with their 15th studio album--Tohuvabohu--out August 21 via Metropolis Records and KMFDM Records.
KMFDM, now in their 24th year having been spawned in Paris, France on February 29, 1984, remain a musical entity to be reckoned with. Combining relentless experimentation and reinvention, the group continues to unleash a barrage of the Ultra-Heavy Beats, allowing their fans to dance with abandon, bang their heads or dissect the group's balance of striking lyricism and political/societal observations. To date, the band has sold well over 2 million albums worldwide.
With Tohuvabohu--an Old Testament word meaning "wild and chaotic"-- KMFDM re-establish themselves as a vital force.
Leader and founder Sascha Konietzko (Vocals, Synthesizers, Machines), Lucia Cifarelli (Vocals) and Jules Hodgson(Guitar, Bass, Keys), Steve White (Guitar) and Andy Selway (Drums) expand the growing list of languages sung in their catalog, with German, Spanish, Latin, Hebrew and Lingala (an African language) all heard on Tohuvabohu. The group included a Spanish-language cover of the German cult-group Liasions Dangereuses' dancefloor favorite "Los Ninos Del Parque" which provides a perfectly retro/electronic departure.
Demonstrating once again that KMFDM (rough translation "No Pity For The Majority") belongs to the people and vice versa, the group invited fans from all over the world to call into a phone hotline and record personal stories of what KMFDM means to them. Sascha or Käpt'n K.--as he is known to the group's devoted horde--wove the voices throughout the album's opener "Superpower." Other highlights on the album include the danceable "Looking For Strange," the metal-tinged "Saft Und Kraft," the EBM-like "Spit Or Swallow" and the darkwave-powered "Tohuvabohu."
The complete track listing for Tohuvabohu is as follows:
1. Super Power
2. Looking For Strange
3. Tohuvabohu
4. I Am What I Am
5. Saft Und Kraft
6. Headcase
7. Los Ninos
8. Not In My Name
9. Spit Or Swallow
10. Fait Accompli
11. Bumaye
MEATDOUGLAS - 8/17/2007 10:44:33 PM this album is pretty shitty. i downloaded it, just like the their last 4 or 5...they haven't been good for a while. Lucia sucks. she is all over this album unfortunately. There isn't anything good going on...and there hasn't been for almost 10 years now. it's sad really, the first 10 years were so good. i was a HARDCORE fan for so long....ah well, at least i didn't waste my money this time. i learned my lesson with "attak"; download first.
toolbox_1 - 7/24/2007 7:45:29 PM i`m going to the slayer/manson show to watch all those" Slayer" dudes go home unhappy after mansons band kicks their ass, lol.
toolbox_1 - 7/24/2007 7:42:39 PM i wouldn`t call them boring live, but they are not your average band, either.undertow is a sick ass album, but my fave is aenima.but i dig all their albums .danny is one of the best drummers i`ve ever seen live, a god of rythymic thunder(bonzo,the original god of thunder)
MR_Totem - 7/23/2007 11:32:31 AM Now Tool great band but live IMO boring, but fuck I just put on Undertow and it is a classic.
MR_Totem - 7/23/2007 11:31:05 AM lol
toolbox_1 - 7/22/2007 9:40:53 PM no one asked you, totem.....crazy, i think he produced 1 of their joints and probably laid bass trax for the album.
dancypantz - 7/22/2007 2:30:58 AM nine inch nails is GOD!!!!!!!!!!
MR_Totem - 7/20/2007 7:00:16 PM NIN, Manson, No please.
toolbox_1 - 7/20/2007 4:26:10 PM tim was producing mansons holywood album, twiggy and manson weren`t seeing eye to eye over the bass runs in 1 song. tim did his version 4 manson after twiggy left, manson liked it, fired twiggy and tim was in the band.he said he did it because twiggy couldn`t play his stuff anymore(too complicated)but he fit in very well in a perfect circle, and is in nine inch nails now.
ocillotist - 7/19/2007 2:28:28 PM Oh My God, Shotgun Messiah? I remember their awful video, they were rapping over a hair metal song
CrazyAssBitch - 7/19/2007 12:17:10 PM Tim Skold I was told is now playing in Manson's band. Wasn't he also in Prodigy?
HPL - 7/19/2007 10:03:33 AM I've got a feeling Tim Skold ( formerly of Hair Metal shredders Shotgun Messiah, is their bassist ).
HPL - 7/19/2007 10:02:45 AM Dudes - KMFDM rule! Think crunchy guitar riffs over dancy industrial beats. I got my cousin into 'em ten years ago, and he still shoots his wad over anything they release. Nice graphic design as well.
