Society is in a shambles, fascism is in fashion, and the Ultra Heavy Beat remains resolute and resolved to rise up and rip the system! After 42 years of conceptual continuity and distinction through diversity, KMFDM are back with ‘ENEMY’! The 24th album by the German electronic and industrial rock pioneers is scheduled for release on 6th February 2026, with its title song out today (9th January) as its second single. “In many countries all over the world, questionable leaders declare part of their populations as ‘enemies’. We are ENEMY!” the band states bluntly.
The new album also includes the previously released ‘OUBLIETTE’ stream | Bandcamp. From the French word ‘oublier’, meaning ‘to forget’, an oubliette is a dungeon with the only access being via a trapdoor in its ceiling. Perfectly constructed from a captor’s perspective, detection and escape are impossible.
Due to a recent severe illness requiring medical intervention and therapy, KMFDM have been forced to postpone a previously announced (and almost sold out) European tour in February and March 2026. All tickets sold will remain valid for the rescheduled shows, with an update on the timescale of these expected soon.
Kommanded by the songwriting and vocal power of Sascha ‘Käpt’n K’ Konietzko and Lucia Cifarelli, and backed by the percussive onslaught of Andy Selway, KMFDM is now joined by London six-string slinger Tidor Nieddu bringing his own bold and vivid guitar flavours. Having hypnotised audiences on the band’s 40th anniversary tour with her rendition of ‘Professional Killer’, Annabella Konietzko also appears with her own hit-list on the explosive ‘YOÜ’, marking her songwriting debut with the group. Never a band to take the easy path, ‘ENEMY’ delivers some of KMFDM’s most stylistically challenging and politically scathing material yet; from the dance/rock melodicism of ‘OUBLIETTE’ to the darkened grooves of ‘CATCH & KILL’, the satirical brute force thrash of ‘OUTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION’ to the vicious and hyperbolic industrial metal of ‘L’ETAT’, and the funky throb of ‘VAMPYR’ to the cheeky dub of ‘STRAY BULLET 2.0.
KMFDM keeps moving, dancing on the blood-dimmed tide, roaring as a rough beast to make noise against a world that demands the silence of ignorance. Join the Ultra Heavy Beat and make yourself the ENEMY of hypocrisy, discrimination and injustice!
ENEMY
TRACKLIST
1 ENEMY
2 OUBLIETTE
3 L’ETAT
4 VAMPYR
5 YOÜ
6 OUTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION
7 A OKAY
8 STRAY BULLET 2.0
9 CATCH & KILL
10 GUN QUARTER SUE
11 THE SECOND COMING
KMFDM biography
Hamburg-based industrial rock pioneers KMFDM have forged their own singular path since being founded by Sascha ‘Käpt’n K’ Konietzko in 1984, continually refining and redefining the parameters of modern music while also never missing an opportunity to address the social and political zeitgeist in brazen, belligerent and boisterous fashion. Their early albums were recorded in Germany before a move to the US, where they found success with the Chicago-based record label Wax Trax! The 1990s saw KMFDM become a household name in the worldwide industrial rock scene, with their 1995 hit ‘Juke Joint Jezebel’ catapulting the band into the Billboard charts Stateside and helping to earn them placements on a plethora of film soundtracks that included ‘Bad Boys’ and ‘Mortal Kombat’. Future icons such as Rammstein and Korn had their humble beginnings opening on KMFDM tours.
The band took a hiatus in 1999 after recording their 10th album for Wax Trax!, but Konietzko resurrected KMFDM three years later and signed to Metropolis Records with a line-up that featured American singer Lucia Cifarelli (from Drill) and Tim Skold (who later joined Marilyn Manson). Releasing studio albums and touring frequently, Konietzko and Cifarelli returned to Germany in 2008 and have continued to record and tour regularly. Their most recent album was ‘LET GO’ (2024), a year that marked the group’s 40th anniversary, with a 20th anniversary remixed and remastered edition of the classic ‘HAU RUCK’ issued in May 2025.
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