WORLD WAR 3
METROPOLIS
LINKS:
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World War 3 is the follow up to 2001’s ATTAK. Where Adios showed a band at the end of their rope, and ATTAK had them finding their feet again, World War 3 is KMFDM at their best. Sascha Konietzko and company have made an album that is as strong as Ministry’s Psalm 69. Though never as disturbing as a trip through Buck Satan’s mind, KMFDM know the sandbox that they are playing in. Hell, they helped build the thing. They even go so far as to throw do-bro guitars, harmonicas and banjos into the mix, instruments you would never hear on your run of the mill industrial album.
Straight out of the gate World War 3 is a blitzkrieg of industrial metal mixed with electronica that has become the band’s trademark. From the first track, which lends the album its title, through songs like “Blackball,” “The Last Things,” “Stars and Stripes,” “Jihad,” and “Bullets, Bombs Bigotry,” KMFDM deliver industrial in it’s purest form: crunching guitars, a solid low end, and the electronic strangling of synthesizers that would make most industrial acts shake their heads and go, ”…Damn…”
Lyrically the album is one of the strongest I’ve heard. Rife with socio-political commentary, World War 3 is a sarcastic observation on the state of things in the new millennium. The band declares war on everyone from television to the government and the music industry, giving you a look at the monoculture we have allowed ourselves to become. Ever have someone try to talk some sense into you with a brick? That is what KMFDM is doing on World War 3.
----Steve Walker