W.A.S.P. Album: “K.F.D.”

I know some people dislike the engineered sound of this album, but I like it. What is most important though, is that this album contains some of the best songs Blackie has ever written, period. Actually, this is the only W.A.S.P. album that I think has no filler songs at all. Every track is right where it belongs and I never skip any tracks but listen to the album from the beginning though to the end. But as Blackie has said, this is so angry and dark music that you'll only understand it if you have enough scorned experiences in your life. This is one dark piece of music! Mostly it is about being extremely mad and angry about having been dumped, cheated on, and so on. If you just found out your spouse has been cheating on you, don't listen to this album or it may send you over the edge! ;o)

This is one angry album. It sounds like nothing else WASP has released to date, and it is amazing. They take their music into another direction but stay true to their roots at the same time. It may take you a while to actually like it. You must be open minded. And once you are, you will see that this is a WASP album that stands on its own and lives up to its title...

At the time of the release of K.F.D. Blackie Lawless described it as the most intense album W.A.S.P had ever made, and never was a more true word spoken. Right from the word go K.F.D. is bristling with menace and some really quite brutal songs. Certainly K.F.D. is nothing like W.A.S.P had made before or have made since. I appreciate that the extremely dark nature of this album is not too everybodys taste and if your a fan of the more rock n roll style W.A.S.P then you would probably be better off getting hold of their next album Helldorado. If however you go into K.F.D. with an open mind than I think you'll be suprised at how good this album is.

This entire cd (of which there are at least two compilations, about which I'll say something later) sounds like it was engineered using over-amped power tools wielded for very sadistic purposes. I first came to this after _The Last Command_ days. When I first heard _KFD_, I thought it was the most horribly, pneumatically-crafted, painful stuff I had ever heard and couldn't believe how badly the band had devolved. Now, however, I think _KFD_ is Blackie Lawless's most daring conception and W.A.S.P.'s most fully realized cd. Like he says in "Killahead," Blackie's out to prove that he's "the darkest motherf---r on the planet," and by the time he's grandstanding by asking, "Who's the one?", you're agreeing, that, yeah, it's him. Because this is nothing less than _Apocalypse Now_ on cd. The two first songs are absolute rockers, and the third is a dental-drill screech of a ballad. You don't get harder than a first song that says all you get from life is to "Kill F--k Die" and means it. "Take the Addiction" is Blackie's monomaniacal rage at his addiction being tougher than yours is; it is anger at whimps like you who can't face injected torture. And then he breaks down and admits that his soul is tortured to extremes. Then it's back into songs of all things "orgasamatic" and lethal and wicked and murderous. The cd is rounded out with "The Horror," a controlled, nearly soothing scare-fest of a postmodern pagan ritual of murder in which the sacrifice is begging you to "F-- me, kill me, drink my blood." Truly scary stuff. THE DIFFERENT COMPILATIONS: If you like _KFD_ as much as I do, I wouldn't want to miss out on the Japanese version that includes a hard-rocking song called "Tokyo's On Fire" that has one of the best guitar riffs (immediately after the chorus) that Chris Holmes has ever inspired and surprised W.A.S.P. fans with. But you'll have to buy the American edition, too, because the Japanese version takes out "Fetus" and "Little Death" (two excellent songs: "Fetus" for a biologically excruciating addition to the aura of the album, and "LD" just for absolute awesomeness) to add "Tokyo's On Fire." (It also says it has a bonus, "Wicked Love," but it's just the same as what's on the American addition. LAST NOTE: Don't believe for a minute that "Kill Your Pretty Face" and "U" (with the chorus "you f---ing suck") isn't Chris Holmes's and Blackie's loving words for Lita Ford. Somehow I think they are all too much for her.

One my favourite bands of all time but this is definitely not my favourite W.A.S.P. album...it just dosent have the hooks, solo's, anthemic choruses that I love about W.A.S.P.

If you like 90's grunge, industrial metal you'll probably like this...I love the 80's stuff...much, much better...this is too grim and lacks the hooks of the glorious 80's W.A.S.P. era.

Blackie is one of the most underrated and best songwriters of all time but I think it's good he just got this out of his system and moved on to better records.