Adios

by KMFDM

Adios cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 20 April 1999
  • Label: Wax Trax!
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 49:52
  • Community rating: 3.06/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: William Rieflin, Chris Shepard, Nivek Ogre, Cheryl Wilson, Sascha Konietzko, Nina Hagen, Tim Skold, G眉nter Schulz, En Esch

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded during intense internal band conflicts and originally intended as their final album, 'Adios' finds KMFDM ironically leaning heavily into highly danceable, sequencer-driven electro-industrial production[cite: 1]. The album largely eschews the heavy guitars of their previous work in favor of a profoundly energetic, beat-heavy approach, ironically released on the very day of the Columbine High School massacre, an event for which the band was unfairly scrutinized[cite: 1].

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, sampling, dystopian

Tracklist

  1. Adios (3:55)
  2. Sycophant (5:13)
  3. D.I.Y (4:51)
  4. Today (4:56)
  5. Witness (7:21)
  6. R.U.O.K? (4:45)
  7. That's All (5:07)
  8. Full Worm Garden (5:03)
  9. Rubicon (3:44)
  10. Bereit (4:53)

Credits

  • KMFDM - primary artist
  • Brute! - cover
  • G眉nter Schulz - guitar
  • Robin Glowski - typography [type]
  • Cheryl Wilson - vocals
  • En Esch - vocals, cymbal, cymbal [hi-hat], programmed by [additional], written-by, composed by
  • Paul DeCarli - edited by [digital]
  • Nina Hagen - vocals, written-by, composed by

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