"Anarchy" | ||||
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Single by KMFDM | ||||
from the album Symbols | ||||
Released | 1997 | |||
Genre | Gothic rock, industrial rock | |||
Length | CD: 4:03 12": 10:40 | |||
Label | Wax Trax!/TVT | |||
Songwriter(s) | Sascha Konietzko, Gunter Schultz, En Esch, Tim Skold, Bill Rieflin | |||
KMFDM singles chronology | ||||
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"Anarchy" is a song from industrial rock band KMFDM's tenth album Symbols .
A promotional single was released in 1997. "Anarchy" was also featured in the video game Test Drive 5 , and remixes of the song were included on the 1998 MDFMK EP. It was also an bonus track in the German edition of the Lost In Space soundtrack in 1998.
"Anarchy" was listed as No. 95 on COMA Music Magazine's 101 Greatest Industrial Songs of All Time. [1]
This promo CD contains the single mix. [2]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Anarchy (Payola Mix)" | 4:03 |
Total length: | 4:03 |
This limited edition vinyl edition contains two remixes of the song. [3]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Anarchy (Fusako)" | 4:55 |
2. | "Anarchy (God and the State)" | 5:45 |
Total length: | 10:40 |
This reissue was released on KMFDM's own record label and contains two previously released mixes. [4]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Anarchy (Payola)" | 4:04 |
2. | "Anarchy (God and the State)" | 5:45 |
Total length: | 9:49 |
Tim Sköld is a Swedish musician and record producer, who in addition to producing solo work, has also collaborated with multiple musical groups including Shotgun Messiah, KMFDM, Marilyn Manson and Motionless in White.
KMFDM is a German industrial band from Hamburg led by Sascha Konietzko, who founded the band in 1984 as a performance art project.
Nihil is the eighth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on 4 April 1995 by Wax Trax! Records. The album marked the return of former band member Raymond Watts and the first appearance of journeyman drummer Bill Rieflin, and was mostly written by frontman Sascha Konietzko, who emphasized a less guitar-driven sound.
Raymond Watts is an English musician, the founding and sole member of the post-industrial music project PIG, sometimes written as <PIG>.
Money is the sixth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released in February 1992 by Wax Trax! Records. It was originally intended to be titled Apart, with each of the two core members, Sascha Konietzko and En Esch, recording half an album and combining their work. The album ended up using only Konietzko's half, along with additional songs. It received mixed reviews, but spawned a number of club hits. It went out of print in the late 1990s and was re-released in 2006.
"A Drug Against War" is a song by industrial rock band KMFDM, taken from their 1993 album Angst. It was released as a single prior to the album. A music video, featuring animated depictions of the band's previous album covers and singles, was made for the single, and was subsequently shown on the MTV cartoon Beavis and Butt-head on July 11, 1994. It was re-released as a 7" in 2009. The song was featured in the video game Brütal Legend and, on December 16, 2010, it was made available as a downloadable song for the game Rock Band. In late 2011, the band released a new version of the song called "A Drug Against Wall Street", with lyrics in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and made it available for free download from their site.
The tenth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, titled with a string of five unpronounceable, non-alphabetic symbols and commonly known as Symbols, was released on 23 September 1997 by Wax Trax! Records.
Naïve is the fifth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on 15 November 1990 by Wax Trax! Records. It was recorded following KMFDM's return from their first visit to America and subsequent tour with Ministry. It was also the first record they released after signing directly to Wax Trax! Records.
Tactical Neural Implant is the sixth full-length studio album by electro-industrial artists Front Line Assembly. Third Mind Records originally released it in 1992 on both compact-disc and LP formats. The album has also been issued by Roadrunner in a two-disc set that includes the Millennium album.
"Light" is a song by industrial rock band KMFDM from their 1993 album Angst. The single was first released in 1994 and contains nine different remixes of the song. "Light" peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart in May 1994. The single was re-released as a 7" in 2009, and the song was remixed and released as "Light 2010" on December 17, 2010.
Caustic Grip is the fifth full-length studio album by Front Line Assembly, originally released on Third Mind Records in Europe and on WaxTrax! Records in the United States in 1990.
Hard Wired is the eighth full-length studio album by Front Line Assembly, released in 1995.
"Juke Joint Jezebel" is a song by industrial rock group KMFDM from their 1995 album Nihil. It is KMFDM's most widely known song to date, with around three million copies of the song sold in various forms.
"Naïve"/"The Days of Swine & Roses" is a split single released by KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. "Naïve" is the title track from the KMFDM album of the same name. "The Days of Swine & Roses" originally appeared on the My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult album Confessions of a Knife. An edited version of the Thrill Kill Kult remix of "Naïve" was made into a music video, and hit No. 21 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play Songs Chart on March 23, 1991. "The Days of Swine & Roses" was ranked No. 61 on COMA Music Magazine's 101 Greatest Industrial Songs of All Time.
"Godlike" is a song by industrial rock band KMFDM from their 1990 album Naïve.
"Everything Counts" is a 1983 song by the electronic band Depeche Mode from the album Construction Time Again. The single was re-released on 13 February 1989 to support the live album 101.
WTF?! is the seventeenth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on April 26, 2011, on KMFDM Records and Metropolis Records. The regular line-up of Sascha Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli, Jules Hodgson, Andy Selway, and Steve White was joined by a handful of musicians from other industrial and alternative metal acts. The album took about twice as long as usual for the band to produce, and underwent a significant amount of modification during its recording.
"Headhunter" is a 1988 song by the Belgian EBM band Front 242. The song was a major hit in the electronic and industrial music scenes, and Front By Front subsequently became the top selling album in the history of Wax Trax! Records.
"Krank" is a song by industrial rock group KMFDM, the first single from their seventeenth studio album, WTF?!. It was released in North America on March 8, 2011, on the KMFDM and Metropolis record labels, and in Europe on March 11, 2011 on the Dependent label. None of the tracks on the Krank release are on the album, as the album features a different version of Krank, and does not feature any version of Day Of Light. The single features remixes by band leader Sascha Konietzko, former band members Tim Skold and Bill Rieflin, and Sebastian Komor of Icon of Coil.
Kunst is the eighteenth album by industrial band KMFDM. It was released on February 26, 2013, on Metropolis Records.