Nihil by KMFDM

Nihil, KMFDM's seventh studio album, came out on Wax Trax! on April 4, 1995, and it's the moment Sascha Konietzko's Hamburg-born machine hit its full, bone-rattling stride. Konietzko wrote most of it, Raymond Watts came back into the fold, and Bill Rieflin sat in on drums for the first time, alongside the band's longtime hands En Esch and Günter Schulz and guitarist Mark Durante.

This is what Konietzko likes to call the Ultra-Heavy Beat: metal guitar riffs slammed against electronics and samples, male and female voices trading blows, and a band whose lyrics have long railed against violence, war and oppression. "Juke Joint Jezebel" was the first single and became the band's best-known song, selling in the millions across its various releases, and the album itself, praised far and wide, remains their best seller. A remastered edition returned it to the shelves in 2007 after the original had gone out of print.

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