KMFDM - Symbols
Songs: 10  Time: 56:29
Quickly becoming a super group, KMFDM release their latest album, entitled (insert 5 inane symbols representing destruction here.)  The reason I say super group isn’t because they are gaining recognition on Top 40 radio stations worldwide, but rather because this new album boasts a number of ‘guest artists’ including Raymond Watts, Tim Skold, William Rieflin and Nivek Ogre.  Mr. Skold is responsible for the vocals on Anarchy, which is actually better than anything he has done before.  A massively twisted beat is joined together with a pumping rhythm and pulsating sequences to create this nice, non-threatening track.  On Unfit, Sashsa returns to his combination of wet and raw electronic and standard dance beat.  With Watts on vocals, this track sounds much like any of the pieces off of Angst.  Death metal guitar riffs kick off Waste, which suddenly down shifts into a more moderate pace.  Sashsa himself takes up the vocal responsibilities on this piece, which kind of trudges along but never seems to reach any climax.  The only German sung piece on this album, Leid Und Elend, is actually the best off shoot of the staple KMFDM sound that I’ve heard in quite some time.  Sure there are still the hard and fast guitar riffs, but the techno styled electronics and choppy percussion both add to a new dimension to their old sound.  As a whole, there are a few track on this CD which stand out because they don’t sound like rehashed tracks, but the remainder of the music is your standard KMFDM.
  
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1657 N. Damen Ave.                                      Sasha Konietzko / Gunter Schultz / Mark Durante
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