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! 42 years of conceptual continuity and distinction through diversity, KMFDM are back, declaring themselves the ‘ENEMY’ with their 24th album! It is set for release on 6th February 2026, two weeks before the band begins a previously announced and almost sold-out European tour. A first single from it, ‘Oubliette’, will be issued on 12th December.Commanded 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. On top of that, having hypnotised audiences on the band’s 40th anniversary tour with her live 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’, 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!
Tracklist
01. Enemy
02. Oubliette
03. L’Etat
04. Vampyr
05. Yoü
06. Outernational Intervention
07. A Okay
08. Stray Bullet 2.0
09. Catch & Kill
10. Gun Quarter Sue
11. The Second Coming
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.
Source: Press Release
