KMFDM - NIHIL (1995)

I’ve always, always had a really soft spot in my heart for KMFDM. When it comes to heavy electronics, industrial, EBM and heavy metal styled music few do it better than KMFDM. The band first formed way back in 1984 by Sascha Konietzko and En Esch and is considered by many to be one of the pioneers of the industrial/EBM/metal crossover genre. After several albums they were forced to change their name to MDFMK in 1999 due to some legal issue, but eventually went back to the KMFDM banner in 2002, and went for a more hard rock/metal sound. However here on their 1995 classic, ‘Nihil’ they delivered there trademark industrial/EBM/metal style, and ask any KMFDM fan and they’ll tell you Nihil is KMFDM at the top of their game.

Featuring such classics as the hard hitting, ‘Ultra,’ which I first heard several years ago when I purchased the Street Fighter animated movie or the especially catchy, ‘Juke Joint Jezebel,’ which is probably there most popular song and also a song you can always expect to hear at any Goth club. While most people know those songs let us not forget the kick ass, ‘Search & Destroy,’ which has a really excellent guitar riff present in it or the ultra memorable chorus of, ‘Beast’ featuring great backing vocals from Dorona Albert. I’m also quite fond of, ‘Revolution,’ which features cool electronics, great guitar riffs and again the great backing female vocals of Dorona Albert and En Esch’s sinister lead vocals on this song.

If you’ve ever expressed any interest in KMFDM or this particular genre of music then all I can say is that this is probably KMFDM’s finest and perhaps even one of the best ever in this genre. Of course I can't say for sure since I don't have much experience with this genre, but I've seriously owned this album pretty much since it first came out and I've always enjoyed it. There isn’t one bad song on the whole recording and from start to finish you will be addicted by KMFDM’s mixture of catchy electronics, industrial and heavy metal riffing. Truly great stuff!