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. The albums were released in chronological order in groups of two or three from September 2006 to May 2007. Konietzko said the remastering was done over concerns about losing the rights to the back catalog after TVT defaulted on a loan, explaining, “The original agreement was that the catalog would have reverted back to me in 2008, anyway, but TVT and Rykodisc were thinking of just making a KMFDM compilation, which would have eliminated my catalog, and I didn’t want that.” Konietzko commented in 2006 that the current line-up was the best he had worked with, and said in a separate interview that his former bandmates were “looking at me for handouts”. Konietzko announced in October 2007 that he was packing up and moving back to Germany in the next three months.
Back catalog reissue
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