KMFDM - WWIII

“KMFDM forever sucks.” (lyrics from track eleven: “Intro”) A more comprehensive method of reviewing this album than specifically describing the sound, production, and lyrics would be just to say that it’s everything you’ve come to expect from KMFDM. All the German industrial/dance beats, distorted, single-chord guitar riffs, super-blown out vocals, faux woodcut propaganda artwork, and the typically intolerable lyrics are present. As always there are the “conceptual” tracks, those that are loosely connected with the album theme and the rest (the majority) are nonsensical, manufactured filler. It is so lyrically, structurally, and sonically similar to every other KMFDM release, they might as well just start releasing the same album every year or two (with different titles of course). Remember Mr. Sascha, if sales are bad blame Internet piracy like every other formulaic band that releases cookie cutter songs. Don’t you dare experiment or grow as a band, because people really want to buy the same records over and over and over, right? I can think of a million ways in which KMFDM might alter their methods to appeal to me, many of them dealing with new filters, new vocals, or new mixing techniques, but most importantly stop with the “political sample, lyric A, chorus, lyric B, chorus, bridge, someone talking in German, mini guitar solo, chorus” structure. I enjoy a few KMFDM and MDFMK songs, but their full albums are painfully vacant of any worthy content. With such an uncannily consistent discography (nine to eleven songs per album with only two or three songs per album that have any distinction) I doubt that anyone interested in this KMFDM record will be persuaded by a review. “Nothing new it’s the same old shit/ if it works this good why fuck with it.” But… [www.kmfdm.net]