In late 1995, close friend and president of Chicago’s Wax Trax! Jim Nash died of an illness complicated by AIDS, and Seattle became the official headquarters of KMFDM.
Watts toured with KMFDM throughout 1995 in support of Nihil , but then left the group to return to recording under the Pig moniker.
Released on May 15, 1995, Six/Nine was an even more psychological, conceptual album than Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 had been. Before the album was released, the band performed another set of video concerts, featuring equally conceptual music videos for each song, directed by Wataru Hayashi. One of the songs,…
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Durango, meanwhile, continued to play music during his law school years, releasing two EPs on Touch and Go as Arsenal and recording with Boss Hog . He then became a practicing lawyer , with clients including Touch and Go Records and Cynthia Plaster Caster . Riley recorded tracks with the…
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The band began its first national headlining tour in December 1994, with Jack Off Jill opening.
The album was released on July 19, 1994, and peaked at number thirty-five on Billboard ‘ s Top Heatseekers album chart.
The track ” Light ” reached No. 31 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart in May 1994.
Wax Trax! was saved from bankruptcy by an infusion of funds from TVT Records , and in March 1994 announced plans to release the compilation set Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years , which includes the KMFDM songs ” Virus ” and ” Godlike “, two…
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The widest mainstream audience was a mud-soaked performance at Woodstock ’94 , and seen by Pay-Per-View in up to 24 million homes.
Richard Patrick played guitar with Nine Inch Nails during the touring for Pretty Hate Machine and in the music videos for Broken ; he left the band while Trent Reznor was recording The Downward Spiral and began a new recording project with Brian Liesegang. Dubbing themselves Filter, they signed to…
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