Opium (album)

Opium
Studio album by KMFDM
Released	1984
Recorded	1984 at Pft Brd, Blankenese
Genre	Industrial, industrial rock
Length	43:49
Label	Firstworld[1]
KMFDM chronology
Opium (1984) What Do You Know, Deutschland? (1986)

Opium is the debut album by KMFDM released in 1984. There were only 200 cassette copies made. The album was re-released in 2002 by KMFDM Records. It was originally recorded in Hamburg, Germany.

Opium is one of only two KMFDM studio albums (Nihil being the other) that does not feature cover artwork by pop-artist Brute!.

Re-release

Opium was originally released in a limited run of 200 cassettes.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[1] 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.^[1]

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?.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by KMFDM^[2]. 

No.	Title	Length
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

All information from KMFDM.net.^[2]

• Sascha Konietzko
• Raymond Watts
• Ton Geist

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Daniel Hinds. "KMFDM - interview Feb 2002". The-plague.net. http://www.the-plague.net/kmfdm.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-03. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Discography: Opium". KMFDM Enterprises. http://www.kmfdm.net/discography/albums/opium.htm. Retrieved April 17, 2010.