| ATTAK | 
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| Artist: Kmfdm
Label: Metropolis Records
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 37426
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 80235
UPC: 782388023528
EAN: 0782388023528
ASIN: B00005YW67
Release Date: March 19, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Attak/Reload | | • | Skurk | | • | Dirty | | • | Urban Monkey Warfare | | • | Save Me | | • | Yohoho | | • | Superhero | | • | Sturm & Drang | | • | Preach/Pervert | | • | Risen | | • | Sleep |
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Amazon.com
Clearly refreshed by his hiatus, not to mention his guitar-and-noise-driven side project MDFMK, founder Sascha Konietzko brings renewed vigor to the reactivated KMFDM in the form of Attak. Arriving three years after their "farewell" album, Adios, Attak is in a more chaotic mood than the band's latter-day recordings. But the songs slide together neatly, making for a forceful collection--harness this thing to a dynamo and you could power a small city. Songs like "Sturm & Drang" and "Risen" simply beg to be cranked up; even with the volume down, this album sounds loud. Attak is KMFDM's first CD on aggressively indie industrial label Metropolis Records, and it seems as though the move to a new label has reawakened the group's core sensibilities. It's a mature album (no one would mistake this for an early KMFDM recording), but it's also crisp, fresh, and razor sharp. KMFDM is dead--long live KMFDM! --Genevieve Williams
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| Customer Reviews: Read 54 more reviews...
 KMFDM is back with a vengence! March 31, 2002
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have been looking forward to the new KMFDM for the past couple of months now. I immediately bought "Attak" the same day it was released. It was definitely well worth the wait. Unlike "Symbols" and "Nihil", I had to listen to "Attak" a few times before the music started to sink into my head. I noticed on the first listen that "Attak" had a slightly different sound, particularly on songs such as "Superhero" and "Sleep". I got the impression that Sascha Konietzko had been listening to drum & bass during the band's alleged break up and after the tour with MDFMK. The drum and bass influences is quite evident in "Superhero" and "Sleep" but not necessarily in a bad way, just interesting that drum and bass would be incorporated into the band's abrasive, caustic industrial sound. Definitely light on the metal this time around. My two personal favorite songs on this album are "Save Me" and "Risen". "Save Me" in some weird way sounds as if it would have been perfect for the "Symbols" album. It reminded me a bit like my personal favorite KMFDM song "Anarchy" with Skold's vocals. "Risen" is just a killer song with that loud thunderous industrial beats that needs to be played at top volume. Now while I can't say "Attak" is better than "Nihil" or "Symbols", I definitely have to rank "Attak" next to those two albums as my favorite KMFDM album of all time.
KMFDM's doing it Again! March 21, 2002
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
KMFDM's back with a heavier sound, just like they promised. Still, its the KMFDM we've all grow to love. The sound has again morphed into something new, but it still has remnants of older days, giving it a rounded sound. There is a lot of the newer, more techno friendly MDFMK hiding inside the songs, plus other, harder to put my finger on, elements that meet with widespread hands. All I can say about it is Yummy.
Raymond's back, Lucia still doing tracks (which is a far cry from her Drill days), and Skold is also on board for this go around, making the album a bit more versatile than the previous release (not to say that the last release was less than spectacular). Personally, I was glad to find Raymond on board again, since I had missed him on MDFMK and had hoped he would return. Still, the prayers were only half answered, with silence on En Esch's side of the court. That said, it is definitely worth buying, and if you have any doubts, I'm sure you can get some clippy clips to listen to. But don't! Buy it and make sweet love to it now!
 KMFDM is No More March 22, 2002
9 out of 22 found this review helpful
This album is terrible! I have been listening to KMFDM for many a year, and I am sad that it is no longer. What was once creative, brilliant, and addictive music is now a disjointed cacophony of growling and generic metal type riffs. I see this album as the type of music that middle school kids would listen to and think they were being rebellious. It is very obvious (in my opinion) that this album was trying to mimic previous KMFDM albums so that Sascha could avoid charges of stealing the name but changing the band. I say that because the members of this band rock, but they are not KMFDM. I liked MDFMK, which starred Konietzko, Cifarelli and Skold, and my favorite band (tied with the ORIGINAL KMFDM) is Watt's Pig, and the other members were in some of the original KMFDM albums. This is a great collection of great industrial minds, but trying to resurrect a band without 2/3 of the CORE members and then trying to mimic the previous sound just won't work. Sorry Sascha! If En and Gunter are out, KMFDM does not exist. This album is a disgrace to the KMFDM name. They should have just stuck to MDFMK or formed a new name so they didn't have to ruin the music by trying to make it fit one.
"More, faster, better than never ever before!" March 20, 2002
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've been listening to this album for over a week now and I must say I was blown away and quite surprised by it. KMFDM mixes many blends of music and styles to make this album... my most favorite KMFDM album, and yes, I have heard them all. For all the skeptics out there, this isn't another MDFMK album, this is definitely KMFDM (Not that MDFMK was bad, I liked it, but it's sound was not that of KMFDM). This album will reimurse you into the sounds of KMFDM and the ultra heavy beats they have to deliver. What about the departure of En Esch and Gunter? Some may say there is no longer a KMFDM without two key members that have been in it over these years. Well, I beg to differ. KMFDM's current lineup is Sascha Konietzko, Tim Skold, Raymond "Pig" Watts, Lucia Cifarelli, Bill Rieflin, and Dorona Alberti. KMFDM still has core members and new additions that make them stronger. Though En Esch and Gunter cannot be replaced and will always be remembered in KMFDM, the sound is not dead and the KMFDM of the future holds the same beliefs and talent they had since their debut. With progression comes change and in KMFDM's case, change has shown us ATTAK, and ATTAK has shown us that the power of KMFDM strives onward!
Back in the USSA! March 20, 2002
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Being a long-time fan of KMFDM, I was a bit nervous when I heard that they were coming back without En and Gunter....I considered them to be the backbone of the sound KMFDM has. However, MDFMK was a decent release, and so I figured Sascha might be able to pull off something else.
This CD is good stuff.
Definitely.
Lucia sings a lot of the stuff, notably 'Superhero', which is probably destined to be a single, and the title track. Both are great songs.
Pig returns and sings on 'dirty' (awesome) and preach/pervert (awesome, as well).
Skold's song 'save me' is the staple long... melodic track on the CD, with a catchy chorus.
As far as the actual music is concerned, it's definitely, like the amazon review says, a bit more patchwork than their previous stuff, and mixed a bit bassier than their other CDs, as well.
My personal favorite track is 'sturm & drang', which sounds like our more familiar KMFDM.
But they're all great stuff.
This CD surprised me. Sascha really pulled it off.
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