A companion EP, Ruck Zuck , was released in 2006.
Metropolis Records announced in mid-2006 it would reissue KMFDM’s entire Wax Trax!-era studio album back catalog, which had been out of print since the early 2000s.
Steve White contributed to 2005’s Hau Ruck after touring with the band.
a collection of songs recorded between 1984 and 1986 was released in 2004.
Andy Selway first played drums for KMFDM on WWIII in 2003
Konietzko said of the reformed band, “Not only is it fun again, but it’s devoid of all the personal confrontations due to egos and fractions that were once a part of the band,” but said, “I really miss En Esch,” in 2003. KMFDM released its first album in three years,…
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Opium was re-released in 2002 as KMFDM001 on the band’s new label, KMFDM Records
Looking back on Symbols in 2002, Konietzko said, “I listened to the Symbols album and heard exactly why KMFDM broke up in the first place. It told me the story of what went wrong. There were maybe two (good) songs on that album and the others were just a bunch…
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Konietzko announced the return of KMFDM in early 2001, due to “public demand”, with Skold, Cifarelli, and former collaborators Watts and Rieflin joining him in the studio; he said at the time, “I talked with the usual KMFDM suspects to see if they were interested, and what we came up…
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KMFDM disbanded, albeit temporarily, on January 22, 1999, with only Konietzko and Skold remaining together. Konietzko said the split was due to “lots of stress and pressure, as well as differences in vision and drive”. Esch said “There was a lot of negative energy between Sascha and Günter Schulz and…
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