KMFDM

KMFDM is an electronic music band in the industrial music genre and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. KMFDM began in Paris in 1984 as a joint effort between Konietzko and German pain

KMFDM is an electronic music band in the industrial music genre and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. KMFDM began in Paris in 1984 as a joint effort between Konietzko and German painter/multi-media performer Udo Sturm. The band relocated to Chicago in 1991 and then to Seattle in 1993. KMFDM began their relationship with Wax Trax! Records in 1988 when their album Don't Blow Your Top was licensed to the label. By 1990 they were signed to Wax Trax! Records and a part of the industrial music scene in Chicago that included Ministry, Front 242 and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. Sascha later temporarily returned to Chicago in 1995 to be near friend and president of Wax Trax! Records James Nash, who was dying of AIDS.

KMFDM has toured and recorded with a number of additional musicians, including Bill Rieflin of Ministry, Nivek Ogre from Skinny Puppy, Raymond Watts of PIG, John DeSalvo of Chemlab, and spoken word artist Nicole Blackman.