Sascha Konietzko also known as Sascha K and Käpt'n K, is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 musician and producer. He is the founder, frontman, and "anchor" of 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...

 band 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...

. Konietzko jokingly purports himself to be the father of industrial rock. Keyboard Magazine

Keyboard Magazine

Keyboard Magazine is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the...

wrote of him, "You won't find a more imaginative or effective keyboardist on the hard-core scene."

KMFDM

Konietzko is best known for his role as frontman of KMFDM. Having founded the group as a performance art

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

 project in 1984, he is the only member of KMFDM to appear on every release, and the only founding member still in the band.

Side projects

Konietzko has formed a number of side-projects:

• Excessive Force
  Excessive Force
  Excessive Force is a musical side project started in 1991 by Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM and Buzz McCoy of My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.-History:...
  
   in 1990 with Buzz McCoy from My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
  My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
  My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult is an American electronic industrial rock band originally based out of Chicago, Illinois.-History:...
  
  
• MDFMK
  MDFMK
  MDFMK was an industrial rock band formed by two members of KMFDM, Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold. Lucia Cifarelli, formerly of the band Drill, later rounded out the trio.-History:...
  
   in 1999 with Lucia Cifarelli
  Lucia Cifarelli
  Lucia Cifarelli is currently a vocalist and occasional keyboardist for industrial music group KMFDM...
  
   and 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:...
  
  
• Schwein
  Schwein
  Schwein is a music group comprising members of Buck-Tick, KMFDM, and PIG. Members Raymond Watts and Hisashi Imai , both having worked together in Schaft, were joined by Atsushi Sakurai , Sascha Konietzko and Lucia Cifarelli...
  
   in 2000 with members of the Japanese band Buck-Tick
  Buck-Tick
  Buck-Tick is a rock band formed in 1983 in Fujioka, Japan. The band has consisted of Atsushi Sakurai , Hisashi Imai , Hidehiko Hoshino , Yutaka Higuchi and Toll Yagami for the majority of its existence...
  
   and English musician Raymond Watts
• KGC in 2006 with Lucia Cifarelli
  Lucia Cifarelli
  Lucia Cifarelli is currently a vocalist and occasional keyboardist for industrial music group KMFDM...
  
   and Dean Garcia of Curve
  Curve (band)
  Curve was an English music group formed in 1990 chiefly around the collaboration of singer/songwriter Toni Halliday and bassist/guitarist/programmer Dean Garcia.-History:...
  
  
• OK•ZTEIN•OK
  PROLET•KULT
  PROLET•KULT is the debut release by Sascha Konietzko under the name of his solo project, OK•ZTEIN•OK. Both the project and release were announced on March 23, 2011, on KMFDM's web site. PROLET•KULT was released April 26 in a limited release of 1,000 copies...
  
   in 2011, Konietzko's first solo project

Remixes

He has re-mixed acts including: Metallica

Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...

, Megadeth

Megadeth

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

, White Zombie

White Zombie

White Zombie was a Grammy Award-nominated American heavy metal band. Based in New York City, White Zombie was originally a noise rock band. White Zombie are better-known for their later heavy metal-oriented sound...

, Rammstein

Rammstein

Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...

, Love & Rockets, Kittie

Kittie

Kittie is a Canadian heavy metal band formed in London, Ontario in 1996. A quartet of women, the group rose to success in 1999 when the track "Brackish" from their debut album Spit became a hit single...

, Die Krupps

Die Krupps

Die Krupps is a German industrial rock/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf.-History:Their initial sound throughout the 1980s combined synthesizers with metallic percussion...

, Flotsam & Jetsam

Flotsam and Jetsam (band)

Flotsam and Jetsam is a thrash metal band that formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1982.-1981-1986: The beginning:The band's original name was "Paradox" founded by Drummer Kelly David-Smith and two other guitarists, until 1982 when bassist Jason Newsted joined. Jason had come to Phoenix with his band...

, Living Colour

Living Colour

Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz, funk, neo-psychedelia, hard rock, and heavy metal...

, Mindless Self Indulgence

Mindless Self Indulgence

Mindless Self Indulgence is an American musical group formed in New York in 1997. Their music has a mixed style including rap, punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno and industrial...

, Combichrist

CombiChrist

Combichrist is a Norwegian Aggrotech band formed in 2003 by Norwegian Andy LaPlegua based in Atlanta.-Formation:The first material LaPlegua wrote was a few powernoise/techno crossover tracks under the moniker DRIVE...

, Young Gods, and Pig.

Personal life

Sascha Konietzko lived in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 from 1991 to 2007, dividing his time among Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, New York City

New York City

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, and Seattle before moving back to his hometown of Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Konietzko and Lucia Cifarelli

Lucia Cifarelli

Lucia Cifarelli is currently a vocalist and occasional keyboardist for industrial music group KMFDM...

married in 2005.