Opium (KMFDM album)

Opium is the debut studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released in 1984 by Firstworld. It is one of only two KMFDM studio albums (the other being Nihil) that does not feature cover artwork by pop artist Brute!. There were only a handful of cassette copies of the album that were made.

Opium
Studio album by
KMFDM
Released1984
Recorded1984[1]
StudioPft Brd, Blankenese
Genre
Length43:49
LabelFirstworld[2]
KMFDM chronology
Opium
(1984)		 What Do You Know, Deutschland?
(1986)

Re-release

Opium was originally released in a limited run of cassettes and distributed through the Hamburg club scene.[3] In the early 2000s, the original 8-track tapes were salvaged from a house, after surviving a fire and years of sitting in damp boxes. This had left them in a damaged state.[2] Sascha Konietzko salvaged what information was still intact on the tapes, and then set about re-creating the tracks. This included reprogramming drums on some tracks with the original sounds, or sounds close to the original.[2]

Sascha said that Opium would be the "missing link to 'Where did KMFDM even come from in the first place?'," which he said would be missed out if a listener began with What Do You Know, Deutschland?.[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by KMFDM[4].

No.TitleLength
1."Fix Me Up"3:40
2."Splatter"3:51
3."The Smell"4:06
4."Helmut Mein Helmut"4:44
5."Warp'd"2:35
6."Penetration"4:10
7."Entschuldigung"3:43
8."Cuntboy"6:09
9."RAF OK"4:25
10."Mating Sounds of Helicopters"6:26
Total length:43:49

Personnel

References
  1. Curry, Chris (November 1, 2003). "MK Magazine Interviews: KMFDM". MK Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  2. Daniel Hinds. "KMFDM - interview Feb 2002". The-plague.net. Archived from the original on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
  3. "KMFDM History". KMFDM Inc. Archived from the original on April 8, 1997. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  4. "Discography: Opium". KMFDM Enterprises. Archived from the original on April 2, 2010. Retrieved April 17, 2010.
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