CD Review: KMFDM – Krieg
February 24th, 2010 Filed under: Reviews - Music by admin
CD Review – KMFDM
Krieg
KMFDM Records
Sascha Konietzko’s last year effort BLITZ has sent waves across the electro-industrial community. The word “waves” doesn’t fit, since it was more like a tsunami, so powerful that before you knew it, it traveled around the world and hit you straight in the back of your head with explosive remixes. Krieg is a yet another proof that KMFDM have been going strong and their music in still an inspiration to the best.
Not that BLITZ’s “Bait & Switch” wasn’t good as it is, but “All 4 One” remix by Combichrist will undoubtedly take the original’s place in ebm sets and even if it’s going to be 5 in the morning after a night of dark electro destruction you’ll feel a surge of pure electricity jump through you and give you a second breath when it starts playing (or twenty-second for that matter). Prong’s “Sacred Cow Mix” of the same song is different but utterly forgettable if you don’t listen it first.
Another gem would be “People of the Lie (Requiem Mix)” by Koichi Fukuda of Static-X. It completely changes the perception and achieves its goal – people will appreciate the brilliant lyrics even more with the remix’s transcending atmosphere in effect. It’s all really good from beginning to end, with solid hits both in the beginning and the end, like Assemblage 23′s “Bloody Fog Mix” of “Davai”. One band you would never expect to do this track truly nailed it. Highly energetic, heavy as usual, style margins are of no concern – it’s a trademark KMFDM release.
Are you still here? Run to the fucking record store.
READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH KMFDM IN ISSUE 10
By Arceon
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