KMFDM ATTAK ALBUM METROPOLIS RELEASE: MARCH 14, 2002 REVIEW: MARCH 4, 2002

After a quick metamorphosis into MDFMK, the industrial band headed by Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold, has now gone back to the old name KMFDM. So what's new then? Well, not much, there are still songs with hard beats, guitars (albeit even more of them), and people shouting stuff like "K-M-F-D-M". The press release says they are using "slicing techno, urgent drum and bass propulsion and vibrant electronic atmospheres", to make the tired industrial rock theme more interesting. The thing is, it has been done before, and better. Why is it that when you do drum'n'bass, there seems to be only one set of drum loops you can use? I can never figure that out.
The album features a lot of guest artists, as usual. Raymond Watts, Bill Rieflin and others appears here and there, doing their stuff, although without adding anything special. The low point of the album is Tim Skold's power ballad "Save Me", an incredibly soppy and embarrassing piece of music. As a whole, this album is unmistakably KMFDM, but not with the level of song writing of for example "Adios", which is a much better album in my opinion. However, if you really like KMFDM, you probably will not be that disappointed.

JOHAN CARLSSON