Society is in a shambles, fascism is in fashion, and the Ultra Heavy Beat remains resolute and resolved to rise up and rip the system! After 42 years of conceptual continuity and distinction through diversity, KMFDM are back with ‘ENEMY’!
Out today (6th February) on Metropolis Records, ‘ENEMY’ is the band’s 24th album. Previewed with the release of the songs ‘OUBLIETTE’ and its title track as singles, the album has already been attracting numerous accolades worldwide.
Having been forced to postpone a previously announced (and almost sold out) spring European tour due to illness, a new schedule has just been announced:
AUGUST 2026
2nd Munich (DE) Werk Free & Easy Festival
4th Budapest (HU) A 38
5th Krakow (PL) Hype Park
6th Berlin (DE) Columbia Theater
7th Jaroměř (CZ) Brutal Assault
8th Leipzig (DE) Täubchenthal
9th Hildesheim (DE) M’era Luna Festival
11th Oberhausen (DE) Kulttempel
12th Eindhoven (NL) Effenaar
MARCH 2027
13th Bochum (DE) Matrix
14th Haarlem (NL) Paatronat
15th Köln (DE) Essigfabrik
17th Paris (FR) Le Petit Bain
18th Lausanne (CH) Docks
19th Winterthur (CH) Gaswerk
20th Milan (IT) Legend Club
21st Bratislava (SI) Majestic Club
23rd Prague (CZ) Lucerna Music Bar
24th Warsaw (PL) Progresja
25th Dresden (DE) Reithalle
26th Malmö (SE) Moriska Paviljongen
27th Stockholm (SE) Slaktkyrkan
29th Gothenburg (SE) Pustervik
Kommanded by the songwriting and vocal power of Sascha ‘Käpt’n K’ Konietzko and Lucia Cifarelli, and backed by the percussive onslaught of Andy Selway, KMFDM is now joined by London six-string slinger Tidor Nieddu bringing his own bold and vivid guitar flavours. Having hypnotised audiences on the band’s 40th anniversary tour with her rendition of ‘Professional Killer’, Annabella Konietzko also appears with her own hit-list on the explosive ‘YOÜ’, marking her songwriting debut with the group.
Never a band to take the easy path, ‘ENEMY’ delivers some of KMFDM’s most stylistically challenging and politically scathing material yet; from the dance/rock melodicism of ‘OUBLIETTE’ to the darkened grooves of ‘CATCH & KILL’, the satirical brute force thrash of ‘OUTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION’ to the vicious and hyperbolic industrial metal of ‘L’ETAT’, and the funky throb of ‘VAMPYR’ to the cheeky dub of ‘STRAY BULLET 2.0’.
KMFDM keeps moving, dancing on the blood-dimmed tide, roaring as a rough beast to make noise against a world that demands the silence of ignorance. Join the Ultra Heavy Beat and make yourself the ENEMY of hypocrisy, discrimination and injustice
KMFDM biography
Hamburg-based industrial rock pioneers KMFDM have forged their own singular path since being founded by Sascha ‘Käpt’n K’ Konietzko in 1984, continually refining and redefining the parameters of modern music while also never missing an opportunity to address the social and political zeitgeist in brazen, belligerent and boisterous fashion. Their early albums were recorded in Germany before a move to the US, where they found success with the Chicago-based record label Wax Trax!
The 1990s saw KMFDM become a household name in the worldwide industrial rock scene, with their 1995 hit ‘Juke Joint Jezebel’ catapulting the band into the Billboard charts Stateside and helping to earn them placements on a plethora of film soundtracks that included ‘Bad Boys’ and ‘Mortal Kombat’. Future icons such as Rammstein and Korn had their humble beginnings opening on KMFDM tours.
The band took a hiatus in 1999 after recording their 10th album for Wax Trax!, but Konietzko resurrected KMFDM three years later and signed to Metropolis Records with a line-up that featured American singer Lucia Cifarelli (from Drill) and Tim Skold (who later joined Marilyn Manson). Releasing studio albums and touring frequently, Konietzko and Cifarelli returned to Germany in 2008 and have continued to record and tour regularly. Their most recent album was ‘LET GO’ (2024), a year that marked the group’s 40th anniversary, with a 20th anniversary remixed and remastered edition of the classic ‘HAU RUCK’ issued in May 2025.
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