Working together
Most of the work on “Blitz” was split between Konietzko and vocalist Lucia Cifarelli.
Electronics on the new album are blended into the type of genre-bending mix that longtime fans of the band have come to expect.
“That’s the beauty of being KMFDM,” says Konietzko. “It’s its own genre.”
It’s been a productive 25 years for the German industrial rock outfit KMFDM, with the band and principal member Sascha Konietzko releasing a continuous stream of hard-edged, danceable rock and electronic music almost every year they’ve been around. The band’s 16th proper full- length, “Blitz,” is their second of the year. That can’t be an easy pace to keep up, especially in a time when many bands barely get around to releasing an album every couple of years or so.
That prolific writing is “something that comes by itself,” Konietzko says. “Some people need a lot of time to write and come up with ideas.”
For KMFDM, having a group of people always working on the same songs simultaneously streamlines the process.
“Me being here in Europe and everyone else being in the States, we have the advantage of the time difference,” he says. “That means I can work all day on a track, pop it over to my guys ... and they can put a whole day of work in it. [We] just make the best out of the time and get working really quick and fluidly.”
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