Enemy is KMFDM's 24th album in 42 years together as one of the kingpins of Industrial dance Rock, never forgetting to have a strong message of peace and unity and fighting against fascists and the regime, while you have a good time together. KMFDM are currently Sascha Kapt'n K' Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli, Andy Selway, Tidor Nieddu and Annabella Konietzko.
The album opens with the title song Enemy a clarion industrial dance rock call, for everyone to stand up to the lords of chaos and war, work towards making noise against the evil power systems, time to rise up and take over, dancing at an industrial club is far better than starting drone wars.
Oubliette has a pumping industrial riff, pounding your mind beats, with a need for oblivion, a distraction for the miasma of chaos and death they see all around, fighting the tyranny of terror states, wanting real freedom to live decent peaceful lives, creating and interacting with the body electric, working to create the global dancefloor nation, strafed by guitars not cluster munitions.
L'Etat has a doomed marching beat, headed for the darkest places, created by methmaniacs who believe you can win a war, despite all the evidence against, join them on the dancefloors bringing love not war, playing heavy music for heavy times, the air raid sirens are going off, how do we stop the madness and bring back liberty and justice.
Vampyr has some squirrelly guitars with seductive bedroom beats and vocals, that explode in intensity while you crawl on into the inside, becoming a Vampyr. You are consumed by jealousy again, while we all throb and grind away on the dancefloor once more. The dubbed-out breakdowns allow you to look round and get upset they aren't dancing with You anymore.
Outernational Interventions has wobbly synth sounds against the pounding beat, for the clarion call to all the aliens to come and join us, you are welcome in there party, come join them living peacefully and partying together, the only type of interventions should be on the dancefloor, this will sound amazing on a club system, I can't play this nearly loud enough for the message to get through to the people that most need to hear the message and the guitar solo.
A Okay will things ever be A Okay again, if you can nick a Gary Numan bassline again, notice all the bullshit and lies they are speaking, with building strings and pitch shifting electrics, electro pop cheeky vocals.
Stray Bullet 2.0 is an amazing dub industrial jazz dance classic reworking of the bands early hit Stray Bullet, hoping we can avoid any of the Stray Bullets that are flying around in the 2020's, the deep Pablo style, East Of The River Nile style dub breakdown is very cool, the only Stray Bullets that should come from the sky are love bombs, while trombone skank along.
Catch & Kill one of those awful terms used to justify legalized murder, they have a slow questioning lyric, holding our breath for a saner world with fewer murder dolls, it feels like it should be about sensuality instead of needing to bring down Camelot once more, join the army of resistance with them now.
Gun Quarter Sue has some of the heaviest beats on the album, this is violent dark and hypnotically brutal instrumental, various automatic gun noises are fashioned into pummelling beats and distortions, while the guitars try to cut through the miasma of bullets and beats.
The album closes with The Second Coming with avant noise cataclysmic intro, drawing the beats slowly into a dark narration of the last days of the Falconer, the abyss opens up, anarchy reigns, the forces of death have risen, biblical and classic quotations mutate against industrial, grinding revelations, calling for the second coming to cleanse the earth of all it's current evil rulers. Beware when the darkness drops again. Humanity screams for the bowels of despair the last breaths come, Enemy has ended.
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