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KMFDM is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Nina Hagen, D.A.F., GBH, American Made Music to Strip By and The Bad Touch. Those roots explain a lot about how KMFDM arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Genitorturers, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Machines of Loving Grace, Ministry and Snake River Conspiracy, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Murcof, Achtung Baby, The Power to Believe and Acumen Nation, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 20 connections around KMFDM, reaching back through Nina Hagen and forward to Murcof. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
KMFDM is a multinational industrial metal band from Hamburg led by Sascha Konietzko, who founded the band in 1984 as a performance art project.
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KMFDM connections
KMFDM grew out of Nina Hagen, D.A.F., GBH and American Made Music to Strip By, shares an orbit with Genitorturers, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Machines of Loving Grace and Ministry, went on to shape Murcof, Achtung Baby, The Power to Believe and Acumen Nation. 20 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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