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// KMFDM - Adios |
This was supposedly KMFDM's final album, hence the title. It was kind of their last album, since some of the key players left KMFDM. This album was released on April 20th, 1999... the same day as the shootings at Columbine high school. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were big fans of KMFDM, their website had lyrics from KMFDM's Son of a Gun, Waste, and Stray Bullet posted on it. So, it seemed kind of strange when they decided to go on a rampage the same day as one of their favorite bands released an album titled "Adios". But enough about the history!
I love this album. If you compared it to every other KMFDM CD, you might think this one was done by a completely different band. The music is more diverse than ever before. Adios is more techno and less guitar. KMFDM has traditionally been all about guitar, but apparently they're not lost without it. Each of the songs are so different from each other, the album stays incredibly fresh all the way through... I can listen to this CD over and over again and it never gets old. What really suprised me about Adios is that most of the songs seem more sad and passive rather than strong and aggressive like typical KMFDM, but this is a great thing. It's like you get to feel a different side of them that they've never shown before, like they decided to spill their guts for their final release. The song Today in particular shows the soft side of KMFDM, something I wasn't sure existed. A couple of the tracks have some vocals by Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy (most noticable in Full Worm Garden). The last track, Bereit, is probably my favorite En Esch song ever, it kind of reminds me of modernized music from the game Doom, with strange German vocals.
I highly recommend this album to any fan of industrial or techno music. KMFDM is sort of back together. When they broke up, En Esch and Gunter Shulz formed a band called Slick Idiot, while Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold formed a band called MDFMK. If that's not enough, Sascha Konietzko formed another band recently, Schwein, with Raymond Watts, also from KMFDM, and two guys from the Japenese band Buck-Tick, Imai Hisashi and Sakurai Atsushi. Now, KMFDM is officially coming back, but without En Esch or Gunter Shulz... so, is KMFDM really KMFDM without them? Personally, I don't think it will be same... which could be good or bad.
I give this album 10 / 10 stars. |
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