Adios (KMFDM album)

Adios
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 20, 1999
Recorded1998
Genre
Length49:54
LabelWax Trax!/TVT
ProducerSascha Konietzko, Tim Skold, Chris Shepard
KMFDM chronology
Symbols
(1997)
Adios
(1999)
Attak
(2002)

Adios is the tenth studio album released by German industrial band KMFDM. The album was originally conceived as the group's parting shot to its longtime record label, Wax Trax! Records,[2] but it ended up also signaling the break-up of KMFDM itself until the band reformed in 2002. Recorded in Seattle, Washington, this was the last album to feature En Esch and Günter Schulz, who both went on to form Slick Idiot. Following the break-up, founding member Sascha Konietzko created the band MDFMK, before reforming KMFDM in 2002 without Esch or Schulz.

The album was released on April 20, 1999, the same date the Columbine High School massacre took place. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two perpetrators of the massacre, were both avid KMFDM fans. Eric Harris noted the coincidence of the album's title and release date in his journal.[3]

A digitally remastered reissue of Adios was released on May 8, 2007, along with the digitally remastered reissue of Symbols.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Sciaretto, Amy (April 5, 1999). "Wax Trax!-TXT Offers KMFDM's Final Statement With 'Adios'". CMJ New Music Report (612). Robert Haber: 14. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  3. ^ "heh, get this. KMFDM's new album is entitled "Adios" and its release date is in April. how fuckin appropriate, a subliminal final "Adios" tribute to Reb and Vodka. thanks KMFDM... I ripped the hell outa the system" -Eric Harris A Columbine Site Retrieved September 17, 2010