SKOLD VS. KMFDM: Debut Album Details Revealed

SKOLD VS. KMFDM, the new collaboration between Tim Skold (SHOTGUN MESSIAH, KMFDM, MARILYN MANSON) and Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM),will release its self-titled debut album on April 7 via KMFDM Records.

"Skold Vs. KMFDM" was performed, engineered, recorded and mixed by Sascha Konietzko at KommandoZentrale in Hamburg, Germany and by Tim Skold at The Unabomber Shack in Studio City, California.

This collaboration was conceived in June 2008 and completed by early October. Notably the entire album was recorded without the two artists ever being on the same continent, much less in the same room. Konietzko explains: "We constantly bounced stuff back and forth over the [FTP] server, and with a time-difference of nine hours between us, it turned out that one of us slept while the other one worked and vice-versa, and thus we got two full days of work done in just 24 hours."

Before they began exchanging files, Konietzko and Skold agreed to some ground rules for the album, which included a no-guitars proviso and a "no real drum kits" stipulation. Skold elaborates: "This is a very electronic album but the majority of the instruments used are actually analog and many of them are not even electric. What we decided to intentionally avoid this time was the traditional electric guitar. This was done to confuse and bewilder our fans. We like to keep them on their toes and many of them appreciate the challenge."

SKOLD VS. KMFDM is Tim Skold on vocals, programming, live percussion, synth bass and Sascha Konietzko on vocals, programming, analogue synthesizers and sequencers and bass.

The twenty-two tracks on the album are as follows:

01. Why Me (4:29)
02. Bloodsport Interlude (1:07)
03. Antigeist (5:13)
04. Alkohol Interlude (0:52)
05. Bloodsport (5:06)
06. Error 404 Interlude (1:58)
07. Love Is Like (4:07)
08. Antigeist Interlude (1:07)
09. It's Not What (4:14)
10. Love Is Like Interlude (1:01)
11. A Common Enemy (4:59)
12. Porn, Kitsch And Firearms Interlude (1:40)
13. Error 404 (3:36)
14. All Or Nothing Interlude (0:57)
15. Porn, Kitsch And Firearms (4:36)
16. It's Not What Interlude (1:22)
17. Gromky (5:17)
18. A Common Enemy Interlude (1:29)
19. Alkohol (5:28)
20. Gromky Interlude (1:43)
21. All Or Nothing (5:03)
22. Why Me Interlude (2:25)

Total playing time is 67:58.

Check out audio samples at www.myspace.com/skoldvskmfdm.

SKOLD VS. KMFDM have no plans for live appearances at this time. However KMFDM will be performing at noted music festivals across Europe over the summer including Wave Gotik Treffen (Leipzig, Germany); Expohall Gothic Festival (Waregem, Belgium); Dynamo Festival (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

KMFDM will tour the U.S. from late September through October 31, 2009.