Brilliantly starting off with a quick banjo
melody, KMFDM's latest offering takes off into a pulsatingly fast avalanche
of anger at the world. The title track is perhaps the heaviest song,
though the second weakest lyrically (beaten out by "Moron"). Rather
than going in depth to an issue, they often just shout out a bunch of shallow,
political points of view, like callously declaring "war on the workd of
anti-choice". Still sometimes the lines are superbly crafted so that
you can't help but want to shout out to some of them at least and the industrial
crunch screws your head on tight until you want to let all anger out in
one cathartic burst.
The rest of the album has political commentary
with more substance except for "Moron". Alternating between light
(but not too light) introspective songs such as "From Here on Out" and
"Last Things" to full-on assaults of rage in "Blackball" and "Stars and
Stripes", KMFDM never shy from their disdain for the way the U.S. is headed
as they see it, but just straddle the line from falling into blatant bashing
of a specific place's policies. The track "Revenge" is the most electronic
track for those of you infatuated with some of their previous outings as
opposed to their earliest and "Intro" is a great jumping-on track for new
fans.
CD Info and Links
Tracks: WWII
From Here On Out
Blackball
Jihad
Last Things
Pity For The Pious
Stars & Stripes
Bullets, Bombs & Bigotry
Moron
Revenge
Intro
Posted by Lucifer:
I've been a fan of KMFDM since 1984 & saw them play live last night, they are not dead as Monarch said, they are bigger better & harder than ever.
Posted by Monarch:
KMFDM is dead. Its been so since Adios. The "spin-off" band MDFMK of the "MDFMK" fame has taken over since. Sure, they're essentially the same people [Sascha is still frontman], but the sound has changed greatly. And that Lucia Cifarelli chick may be hot as fu(ck, but she has the most annoying voice ever.
Posted by Nukrof:
Big Improvement to the world of hard rock for KMFDM, better guitars, awesome drums and political power. Every KMFDM album is different, for some reason this one is my favorite! I think this is probably the KMFDM i always wanted but never dreamt of or expected! Things can only get better!
Posted by potato:
not my favorite album thats still NIHIL. but a huge improvement since Attack.
Posted by Milhouse:
Excellent album. I'm an old KMFDM fan and I surprise myself telling it's my favorite KMFDM album.
