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KMFDM Announces ‘Opium’ And ‘WWIII’ Reissues

Published

11 years ago

August 19, 2013

Industrial metal legends KMFDM have announced that Metropolis Records will be reissuing two classic albums: 1984’s Opium and 2003’s WWIII. The two will be released on October 22nd, two days after the band embarks on a full N. American tour.

Sascha “Kapt’n K” Konietzko states that Opium wasn’t so much an album as it was, “…like a demo, made under the most horrid conditions with absolutely no money at all.”

The full touring schedule can be seen below.

Oct 20 – Vancouver, BC – Venue
Oct 21 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory Concert House
Oct 22 – Park City, UT – Park City Live
Oct 23 – Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall
Oct 24 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
Oct 25 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
Oct 26 – Detroit, MI – The Magic Stick
Oct 27 – Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s Concert Club
Oct 28 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre
Oct 29 – Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall
Oct 30 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
Oct 31 – Hartford, CT – The Webster
Nov 01 – Lancaster, PA – Chameleon Club Nov 02 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
Nov 03 – Patchogue, NY – The Emporium
Nov 05 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Nov 06 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
Nov 07 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
Nov 08 – Houston, TX – Scout Bar
Nov 09 – Austin, TX – Elysium
Nov 11 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
Nov 12 – Tucson, AZ – The Rialto Theatre
Nov 13 – Pomona, CA – The Glass House
Nov 14 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Nov 15 – Portland, OR – Star Theater
Nov 16 – Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

1 week ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…