TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: WWIII Live 2003

RIPPER: Team RNS

223kbps avg - Rock
1hr 6min total-111.2mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-07-27
RIP DATE: 2004-07-26

02 From Here On Out               4:01

06 Stars & Stripes                4:18
07 Pity For The Pious             4:25

10 Bullets Bombs & Bigotry        4:32

12 Juke Joint Jezebel             5:07

14 A Drug Against War             4:49

When KMFDM's WWIII (Sanctuary) hit
stores last year, the album's virulently
anti-Bush platform only slightly
overshadowed the fact that it was the
band's most organic record to date.
Instead of the blips and bleeps of
electronic drums, the act featured a
live drummer. Its synthetic points,
mostly extraneous melodies and samples,
only came into play after the framework
of the original song was completed.

WWIII Live aims to prove that point.
Recorded in Chicago last year, the
album, essentially a live smattering of
the band's latest album with a small
handful of hits, puts KMFDM's live set
squarely under the spotlight.
Unsurprisingly, the act executes its
materials with Teutonic precision.

The perfect foil to its predecessor,
Live's organic number only slightly
overshadows its political aims. Songs
like Moron, Stars and Stripes, WWIII
and Bullets, Bombs and Bigotry, carry
the band's agenda proudly, and the
blatantly politicized title of the tour
only furthers KMFDM's leftist leanings.
Get past the election-year,
elephant-hunter mentality, however, and
KMFDM shows that it is more than just a
pile of programs, gadgets and rhetoric.
With searing, white-hot guitars in Ultra
and Moron match all the sturm und drang
of the band's studio incarnation and
show that pummeling and rigidly
controlled guitars aren't mutually
exclusive. Front man Sascha Konietzko
works his way though an ominously
guttural growl throughout the album,
while Lucia Cifarelli hangs with
scratchy shout that desperately attempts
to keep up with his vim and vigor.
Cifarelli gets her moment in the sun on
From Here on Out, where she takes the
lead and lets out a set of pipes that
can run with the best of them. In fact,
outside of a rough-around-the-edges mix
that pushes the band's beats high into
the mix - think live sound - and a bit
of crowd noise thrown around for good
measure, this could very well be a KMFDM