BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:335@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T230000 DTSTAMP:20220904T142651Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/kmfdm/ SUMMARY:KMFDM DESCRIPTION:Emerging from the European underground in the 1980s\, German fi rebrands KMFDM were part of the industrial wave that crashed the mainstrea m in the '90s alongside kindred spirits Nine Inch Nails\, My Life with t he Thrill Kill Kult\, and Ministry. With their bold\, propaganda-styled a lbum covers and techno-metal anthems\, they placed more focus on pulsing d ance beats and provocative messages than their darker contemporaries. Coun ting numerous members over the years\, KMFDM's leader has remained frontma n and founder Sascha Konietzko\, whose multiple roles include songwriter\, producer\, mixer\, programmer\, sampler\, vocalist\, percussionist\, bass ist\, and electronic gadgeteer. The band -- whose initials stand for "Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit" and can be translated as "No Pity for the Majo rity" -- swiftly moved past the sinister soundscapes on their 1984 debut O pium to establish their trademark style on 1986's What Do You Know\, Deuts chland? After an early-'90s relocation to the U.S.\, they became fixtures on the Billboard Dance charts\, crashing clubs with hits such as "Naive\," "Split\," and "Vogue." KMFDM continued to pump out albums for Wax Trax!/ TVT until the end of the 20th century\, including 1995's top-selling Nihi l (home to "Juke Joint Jezebel") and 1999's Adios. The latter set was appr opriately titled and might have been their final effort\, as the group imp loded due to internal fighting. However\, Konietzko remained with Tim Skol d and recruited vocalist Lucia Cifarelli to form offshoot MDFMK during the subsequent hiatus. The trio resurrected KMFDM in 2002\, returning wit h a new label (Metropolis Records) and a reconfigured lineup that boosted  Cifarelli as a permanent co-vocalist\, kicking off their new era with A ttak. Although KMFDM lost Skold and crucial longtime collaborator Raymond Watts (aka PIG) as permanent members\, Konietzko\, Cifarelli\, and a re volving cast of collaborators maintained their streak of thought-provoking and body-moving output until the close of the 2010s with the group's 21st full-length\, 2019's Paradise.\nOriginally formed in Paris\, France\, KMF DM were founded by Konietzko and German painter/multimedia performer Udo S turm. The duo made their in-concert debut on February 29\, 1984\, when the y performed at an opening for an exhibition of European artists at the Gra nd Palais in Paris (with the show consisting of Sturm playing a synthesize r that would play feedback\, and Konietzko playing a five-string bass). Th e same year\, KMFDM issued their debut release\, Opium\, but Sturm exited the group shortly thereafter (around the same time\, Konietzko was joined by drummer En Esch\, who would remain with the group until 1999). With St urm out of the picture\, Konietzko and Esch put KMFDM on hold at first a nd joined up with New York industrialist Peter Missing to form the outfit  Missing Foundations. But before the new outfit could issue any recording s\, both Konietzko and Esch had dropped out and returned to KMFDM (Missi ng Foundations would carry on with replacement members and go on to issue albums on their own from the late '80s through the early '90s).\nKMFDM's sophomore effort\, What Do You Know\, Deutschland?\, arrived in 1986 and w as the group's first of many for Chicago's famed industrial label Wax Tra x! But instead of if being an album of all new tracks\, it was comprised of selections spanning 1983 to 1986 (in fact\, several were made prior to  Esch's joining). Around this time\, KMFDM struck up a relationship with artist Aidan Hughes (aka Brute!)\, who would steadily supply cover artwork for the group\; the images would become synonymous with KMFDM's hard-hitt ing music. Konietzko and company pushed forward with such further '80s rel eases as 1988's Don't Blow Your Top and 1989's UAIOE\, during which KMFDM found themselves in the middle of an underground industrial movement (it d idn't hurt matters that Wax Trax! quickly became one of the leading indu strial labels in the world\, as they were the home to such other similarly styled acts as Ministry\, Revco\, Front 242\, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult\, and others).\nHowever\, KMFDM had yet to tour America by 1989 (having heavily toured Europe with the likes of Einstürzende Neubauten\ , Young Gods\, and Borghesia\, among others)\, something they sought to correct when they were offered a slot opening a U.S. tour for labelmates  Ministry\, who at the time were readying their classic The Mind Is a Terri ble Thing to Taste release. With the tour lined up for a summer launch\, i t was pushed back several times (due to Ministry leader Al Jourgensen  falling ill) and the tour finally got underway in December 1989. The trek successfully established KMFDM as a band to watch in the industrial underg round\, as they returned to Europe after the tour's completion to work on their fifth full-length release overall\, 1990's Naïve. Realizing that in dustrial's future lay in the U.S.\, Konietzko relocated KMFDM's home base from Hamburg to Chicago in 1991. The same year\, KMFDM's side project Exc essive Force was formed\, issuing a debut release\, Conquer Your World\, in 1992\, the same year that KMFDM issued a new release as well\, Money.\n But just as it appeared as though KMFDM were about to break through to a w ider audience\, Wax Trax! suddenly found itself on hard times\, resultin g in the label being bought out by TVT Records. What followed for KMFDM w ere some of its best-known and strongest releases: 1993's Angst (which ear ned the group its first real exposure on MTV via the video clip for the tr ack "Drug Against War")\, 1995's Nihil (home to their biggest hit\, "Juke Joint Jezebel")\, and 1996's XTORT. During the same time\, Excessive Forc e issued a second release\, 1994's Gentle Death\, while Konietzko relocat ed once more\, this time to Seattle. Further releases followed in the late '90s (1997's Symbols\, 1998's Agogo\, and 1999's Adios)\, before KMFDM te mporarily disbanded on January 22\, 1999 due to internal disagreements (lo ngtime members En Esch and Gunter Schulz would permanently part ways wit h the group).\nIn the wake of the group's split\, Konietzko assembled a ne w outfit\, MDFMK (that is\, KMFDM spelled backward) and issued a lone se lf-titled release in 2000 before KMFDM reunited in 2002 for an all-new alb um\, Attak\, and the live album Sturm &\; Drang Tour 2002. Much like th eir first incarnation\, the revamped group continued to issue a reliable a nd prolific string of efforts throughout the decade. 2003 saw the release of WWIII (their last with Watts until a 2019 collaboration on Paradise)\ , followed by WWIII Live 2003 a year later. Released on KMFDM Records\, 2 005's Hau Ruck was classic KMFDM in all its aggressive industrial power. T he Ruck Zuck EP followed in 2006\, with the full-length Tohuvabohu (Hebrew for "chaos and confusion") landing in 2007. Remix album Brimborium and ra rities collection Extra\, Vol. 1 were both released in 2008. Blitz followe d in 2009\, with the greatest-hits compilation Würst arriving a year late r.\nNew material arrived in 2011 with the loud and heavy WTF?! Eighteenth set Kunst followed in 2013\, with a song dedicated to the jailed Russian a narchist group Pussy Riot along with a collaboration featuring the Swedi sh group Morlocks. In 2014\, the group celebrated "Over Two and a Half De cades of Conceptual Continuity" with a live album\, We Are KMFDM\, and the ir 19th studio effort\, Our Time Will Come. In 2016\, KMFDM signed a contr act with Ear Music\, releasing a quartet of efforts for the label\, inclu ding ROCKS: Milestones Reloaded\, which featured remixed and updated versi ons of their hits\; the preview EP Yeah!\; and Live in the USSA\, which wa s recorded on their tour in support of 20th LP\, 2017's Hell Yeah. Returni ng to Metropolis\, KMFDM -- Konietzko\, Cifarelli\, drummer Andy Selway\ , and guitarist Andee Blacksugar -- released the intensely political Parad ise\, which marked a return by Watts on the track "Binge Boil &\; Blo w\," their first collaboration since 2003's WWIII. ~ Greg Prato &\; Nei l Z. Yeung\, Rovi ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2022/04/kmfdm_1080x1080-copy-2.png CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR