If there were any artist that speaks their mind on the current state of the world, they have returned. After touring, recording and dominating for over 20 years, KMFDM are ready to attack.

Short for Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid (No Pity for the Majority), KMFDM express themselves fully and clearly, leaving nothing implied.

Their latest release, WWIII, with such song titles as “Bullets, Bombs and Bigotry,” “Stars and Stripes,” “Jihad,” “Revenge” and “Pity for the Pious” is a direct attack on the hypocrisy of certain governments and countries.

The title track, featuring samples of President Bush’s voice, is exploiting and exposing everything from Britney Spears to the war on drugs: “I declare war on the world of anti-choice/ On violent unilaterality/ On the amassment of murderous high-tech toys/ And all crimes against humanity.”

With a triumphant return to the music world, KMFDM are one of the few remaining prominent industrial-metal bands touring and releasing albums today. With each album making a statement, they still allow comic relief into their set list.

The song “Intro” off WWIII, pokes fun at each member of the band. “And here we have Jules/ The king of guitar/ He’s only at home when he’s inside a bar/ Rings and spikes and chains and tattoos/ He breeds new lifeforms inside his shoes.”

During a KMFDM explosive live performance, founding member Sascha Konietzko seduces the audience with his romantic-sadistic voice, while vocalist Raymond Watts taunts the crowd with his evil eyes and equally demonic lyrics.

Lucia Cifarelli, the only woman in the group, is a pleasing balance to KMFDM. She allows the powerful force of her voice to show us just how serious KMFDM can be, at the same time soothing our ears to her prevailing melodies.

There is a certain affect an industrial concert has on an audience, and KMFDM certainly represents that feeling well. Flickering strobe lights, attractive pulsing beats, electronically distorted guitar, and haunting projective vocals drive the audience into a mad dancing frenzy. Industrial music is one of the few types of harder music that can be danced to.

Leaving one’s own interpretation to WWIII, with verses like “Stars and Stripes/ Learn how to fight/ We come together by the dawn of light/ Oh so proudly we hail as the rockets red glare/ Stars and Stripes,” KMFDM can represent whatever listeners want them too.

However, one glance at the album cover (a comic of a soldier pointing a gun in the air behind a woman in anguish running her hand over a baby’s face, drawn by longtime KMFDM album cover artist, Brute) and the message is perfectly clear.