Blitz is industrial rock

Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused...

 group KMFDM

KMFDM

KMFDM is an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project...

's sixteenth studio album. It was released on March 24, 2009, on the band's record label KMFDM Records and Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres....

. It also marks the first use of five letter song titles and a five letter album title since WWIII

WWIII (album)

WWIII is KMFDM's thirteenth studio album. It follows the common KMFDM practice of naming albums with five-letter words. This is KMFDM's only release on Sanctuary Records. Lyrically, the album is very political. The songs primarily attack George W. Bush's presidency, various US wars in the Middle...

. "Bait and Switch" contains lyrics from "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley. This is not the version widely known today. A sombre man, Wesley had requested and received slow and solemn music for his lyrics, not the...

". The lyrics for "Davai" are Russian, while the lyrics for "Potz Blitz!" are German. Most of the songs from Blitz were remixed for Krieg

Krieg (album)

Krieg is a remix album by industrial rock band KMFDM containing remixes of songs from their 2009 album Blitz. It was released January 5, 2010, on KMFDM Records.-Release:...

.

Symbol meaning

The symbol used for the first track, , is a variation of the astronomical symbol for the planet Uranus, . Sascha Konietzko, the band's founder, mentions the lyrics "Up Uranus" in his blog, and at the place of the symbol in lyrics, "up Uranus" is sung.

Reception

Blitz charted in the top ten on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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s Dance/Electronic Albums Chart. It reached No. 1 on the CMJ Loud Rock Select Chart and No. 15 on the FMQB Metal Detector Chart. "People of the Lie" reached No. 1 on CMJ Loud Rock.

Track listing

Personnel

• Jules Hodgson
  Jules Hodgson
  Jules Hodgson, also credited as Joolz or J. Hogstorm, is the guitarist for KMFDM, an industrial band, and The Spittin' Cobras . He is a former member of PIG and Lodestar. In 2006, Hodgson married pin-up model Go-go Amy and divorced in 2008. Jules now resides in Seattle, Washington...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
   (1-4, 6-10), drum programming
  Drum machine
  A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music...
  
   (4), drum enhancement (9, 10), all instruments (5)
• Sascha Konietzko
  Sascha Konietzko
  Sascha Konietzko , also known as Sascha K and Käpt'n K, is a German musician and producer. He is the founder, frontman, and "anchor" of industrial rock band KMFDM. Konietzko jokingly purports himself to be the father of industrial rock...
  
   – vocals (1-7, 9-11), analog synthesizer
  Analog synthesizer
  An analog or analogue synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically. The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s such as the Trautonium were built with a variety of vacuum-tube and electro-mechanical technologies...
  
  s (1-4, 6-10), drum programming (1-4, 6-10), sitar (4), loops (7), P-Funk bass (8), all instruments (11)
• Tim Skold
  Tim Skold
  Tim Sköld is a multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to producing solo work, has also collaborated with multiple musical groups including Shotgun Messiah, KMFDM and Marilyn Manson.-Early life:...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (1, 9), cymbals and hi-hats (1-4, 6, 9, 10), drum enhancement (1, 4, 8), drum sound design (2, 3, 6, 9, 10), Soviet synth (6, 8, 9)
• Lucia Cifarelli
  Lucia Cifarelli
  Lucia Cifarelli is currently a vocalist and occasional keyboardist for industrial music group KMFDM...
  
   – vocals (1, 2, 4-6, 8, 10)
• Anna Koudriachova – Countup (3)
• Andy Selway
  Andy Selway
  KMFDM drummer Andy Selway spent his early years in Luton, England, but moved to Kirton near Felixstowe in Suffolk where he remained until his early 20s...
  
   – digital synthesizers (8), drum programming (8)
• Steve White
  Steve White (guitarist)
  Steve White is an English guitarist for KMFDM, first joining the band in 2002 for the Sturm & Drang Tour, and later appearing on several live albums/DVDs and the studio albums Hau Ruck, Tohuvabohu and Blitz . Previously he was a member of PIG, the project of fellow KMFDM contributor Raymond Watts....
  
   – guitar (8)
• Cheryl Wilson – vocals (8)

External links

• Blitz at the official KMFDM
  KMFDM
  KMFDM is an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project...
  
  website