The mid-to-late 1990s were KMFDM’s most successful years in terms of album sales and mainstream awareness. Konietzko moved to Seattle in 1994, while Esch moved to New Orleans. Watts rejoined the band to work on its seventh album, Nihil , which peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and sold 209,000 copies, making it the band’s best-selling album. It marked the first contributions by drummer Bill Rieflin , who worked with the band on its next five albums. Nihil featured KMFDM’s most widely known song, ” Juke Joint Jezebel “, versions of which appeared on both the Bad Boys and Mortal Kombat soundtracks, the latter of which peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 1.8 million copies. Their song “Ultra” was used in the English version of Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie .
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