 KMFDM Records together with The Bicycle Music Company are proud to announce a new full-length album titled Skold vs. KMFDM. The release date is April 7, 2009.
Distribution is through KMFDM Records worldwide. Distribution for the album¹s digital release is through IODA.
Skold vs. KMFDM was performed, engineered, recorded and mixed by Sascha Konietzko at KommandoZentrale in Hamburg, Germany and by Tim Skold at The Unabomber Shack in Studio City, California.
This collaboration was conceived in June 2008 and completed by early October. Notably the entire album was recorded without the two artists ever being on the same continent, much less in the same room. Konietzko explains
"We constantly bounced stuff back and forth over the [FTP] server, and with a time-difference of nine hours between us, it turned out that one of us slept while the other one worked and vice-versa, and thus we got two full days of work done in just 24 hours.²
Before they began exchanging files, Konietzko and Skold agreed to some ground rules for the album, which included a no-guitars proviso and a ³no real drum kits² stipulation. Skold elaborates
"This is a very electronic album but the majority of the instruments used are actually analog and many of them are not even electric. What we decided to intentionally avoid this time was the traditional electric guitar. This was done to confuse and bewilder our fans. We like to keep them on their toes and many of them appreciate the challenge.²
Tim Skold is a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, writer and producer that has played with
Shotgun Messiah, Skold (his self-titled solo-project),
KMFDM, MDFMK and
Marilyn Manson (where his credits, besides songwriting include bass, guitar, drum and synthesizer programming on the albums The Golden Age of Grotesque, Eat Me Drink Me and Lest We Forget). Skold¹s production credits include the three Marilyn Manson albums he played on,
Skold, Shotgun Messiah, MDFMK and KMFDM. Remix credits include Prong, KMFDM, Rammstein, Lords Of Acid, O.N.A., Bloodhound Gang and
Kidney Thieves.
Sascha Konietzko, the mastermind and frontman of
KMFDM, is a vocalist, synthesist and bassist as well as a composer, audio-engineer and producer. His production credits include
KMFDM, Treponem Pal and
Sister Machine Gun. Konietzko¹s remix credits include
Metallica, White Zombie, Rammstein, Combichrist, Mindless Self Indulgence, Kittie, Love & Rockets, Megadeth and
Flotsam Jetsam. Together Skold and Konietzko also co-produced
Peter Murphy (Bauhaus).
KMFDM (which included Tim Skold as a full member from 1997-2002) have influenced artists ranging from
U2 (see ³The Fly² on Achtung Baby) to bands like
Korn, God Lives Underwater, Kittie and
Rammstein.
Skold vs. KMFDM have no plans for live appearances at this time. However
KMFDM will be performing at noted music festivals across Europe over the summer including Wave Gotik Treffen (Leipzig, Germany); Expohall Gothic Festival (Waregem, Belgium); Dynamo Festival (Eindhoven, Netherlands). KMFDM will tour the U.S. from late September through October 31, 2009. For exact tour dates and appearances please visit the website for details:
www.kmfdm.net
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