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  • Creator Couple: Sascha and Lucia.
  • Creator Backlash: The band isn't thrilled that "Juke-Joint Jezebel" from Nihil became their best known song as they don't think it's particularly good and have left it out of compilations and setlists since 2003. That said, they're not complaining about its overall success since it still paid their bills.
  • Long Runner: They have been consistently active since 2002 and their history as a band dates back to the 1980s.
  • Long-Runner Line-up: The lineup of Sascha Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli, Andy Selway, Jules Hodgson and Steve White lasted from 2005-2015.
    • Lucia and Andy have both been members of the band since 2002.
  • Missing Episode: Opium, their first official album, almost ended up like this. The initial release had a very low print, and they weren't able to find the master tapes for nearly twenty years. Luckily, someone managed to find them in the attic of a destroyed home, and the band was able to remaster it. Reportedly they were told that if the tapes stayed there a bit longer, they would've been unusable.
  • The Pete Best: Ton Giest. They played on the first album and we don't know much else about them. And then there is Udo Sturm who was a member while they did performance art but left when they became a band.
  • Similarly Named Works: Lucia's former band Drill also has a song called "Go To Hell".
  • What Could Have Been: Money was originally conceived as Apart, an album where Sascha Konietzko and En Esch would write and record half an album separately in the same studio with the aid of guitarist Günter Schulz, and combine the results into a KMFDM album. The label rejected En Esch's songs for not sounding enough like KMFDM, so Sascha was given additional funds to record more songs, most of which ended up being remixes of previously released material. En Esch's contributions to Apart were released as part of a 1993 solo album, Cheesy, while two additional outtakes ("Split-Apart", "Blood") were released as B Sides and one more ("Thank You") appeared on the rarities compilation Agogo. KMFDM would eventually release Apart digitally on their official bandcamp page.

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