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KMFDM
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Out of 18 votes - Similar Artists: X Marks the Pedwalk, Frontline Assembly, Lords of Acid
Out of 18 votes
- Location: Paris, France
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Industrial-Electronic
Editor's review
Take away the sexual charade of Lords of Acid and inject it with unfiltered adrenaline, and you've pretty much got KMFDM, longtime industrial dance kings celebrating their 24th year of shamelessly shell-shocking dance floors and goth kids around the globe. "Tohuvbohu" is the name of their latest effort, a word that appears in the Old Testament to mean wild or chaotic--fitting, right? Guttural vocals seep over slasher guitars, synth lines so big they're almost costumey. Marilyn Manson was definitely listening to this back in the day and taking notes.
Biography
If Ultra-Heavy Beat pioneers KMFDM have stood for anything over their 24 year run, it'd most certainly be sonic chaos – after all, nothing spells wild like a band with roots in four different cities, that dips the austere thump of industrial into the steely liquor of metal. So it comes as no surprise that Sascha Konietzko and company have titled their latest album, Tohuvbohu, an Old Testament word for wild or chaotic. On the heels of their double-decade anniversary, and the reissue of a few KMFDM classics (1986’s What Do You Know, Deutschland? And 1999’s Adios, to be exact) from the Wax Trax! Era and beyond, the band has further honed its metallic, factory-rock on Tohuvbohu. Just try out the hurtling paranoia of "Looking For Strange" or the creepy, lurching "I Am What I Am" to see what we mean.
