Let me back on the gigs. Of 36 gigs you have, only 5 or 6 are 18/21+. All other gigs are actually ALL AGES...

We try to play all ages gigs whenever it's possible because it's so sad to see people waiting outside and not being able to get in just because they are not 18 or 21. KMFDM is an all ages band. Our audience is from very very young to very very old. I know people that come up to KMFDM shows here in Seattle that are over 80 years old. Seriously!

Well in my opinion KMFDM is not only a common band. It's more... I can boldly say an institution.

Yeah, It's the program. It's definitely an institution.

What else we found amazing regarding this album was that some things changed. Usually whenever I thought about and considered anyone as KMFDM it would be you. KMFDM was Sascha Konietzko and Sascha Konietzko was KMFDM (and thank God still is). Not that's only me who thinks that way but also many many other fans. With this record we see that KMFDM seems like an unit, stronger and that ever before. Again it's the band.

It's once more transformed as a band again. Due to the fact that we started working with Andy, Joolz and Steve. The whole band from PIG on the last tour ('Sturm und Drang' 2002 Tour). And we all became such a good friends. Joolz and Andy decided right after the tour to move to Seattle for a time. It's just really everything popped on the place at that point. The things were making sense. We needed a bit of new direction and we got it. They really, sort of, kicked the band in the ass. The did a good job. (laugh!) They are excellent people to hang out with. We have alot of fun. We go to the rehearsal room and after we are done we would go and have fun.

Earlier some guys from Raymond's band (PIG) have been involved with KMFDM live.

Yeah, correct. They have been in the band ( PIG ) in 97 PIG was opening for KMFDM on that tour.

That was SYMBOLS Tour?

Yeah, that was SYMBOLS tour. But we didn't work until 2000. Me and Lucia went to London and we met with Raymond over there since we worked on the project SCHWEIN and that's how I started to work with Joolz actually. He worked on "ATTAK" a little bit and then on the last tour we needed a band because Günther and En Esch left KMFDM a couple years ago. We needed real live band and those guy made it happen.

How much areall of them involved in music writing? During the listening of WWIII I could, and I believe many will, hear huge PIG impact on KMFDM sound and was it difficult to get all that together since Ray is overseas.

The way it happened was that music was written equally by Joolz, Andy and myself. And lyrics were written by Raymond, Lucia and myself. We came from the tour last summer.We had a title for the new album which was WORLD WAR III but we didn't have songs written yet.