Clearly refreshed by his hiatus, not to mention his guitar-and-noise-driven side project MDFMK, founder Sascha Konietzko brings renewed vigor to the reactivated KMFDM in the form of Attak. Arriving three years after their "farewell" album, Adios, Attak is in a more chaotic mood than the band's latter-day recordings. But the songs slide together neatly, making for a forceful collection--harness this thing to a dynamo and you could power a small city. Songs like "Sturm & Drang" and "Risen" simply beg to be cranked up; even with the volume down, this album sounds loud. Attak is KMFDM's first CD on aggressively indie industrial label Metropolis Records, and it seems as though the move to a new label has reawakened the group's core sensibilities. It's a mature album (no one would mistake this for an early KMFDM recording), but it's also crisp, fresh, and razor sharp. KMFDM is dead--long live KMFDM! --Genevieve Williams