Last night, Diane & I went out with her friend Barbara and some other folks. We went to Sonar, a club in downtown Baltimore, where we saw KMFDM. Combichrist opened up for KMFDM, so I’ll start with them. This was a four person Norwegian band, whose style is sometimes categorized as aggrotech or Terror EBM (dark electro-industrial). Good bass lines but not much else. As I texted to Diane during the show, I said it was “good music to stand to”. They played for about an hour and were followed by KMFDM, who I used to listen to all the time in the mid-to-late 90s while I worked at COS. They’ve gone through some different band members and stylings, but they’re kind of an industrial rock band, with mixes of techno/electronica thrown in here and there. They played Terror (off of NIHIL), one of my favorite songs. A picture below is from their show, which last about 90 minutes. I didn’t dance as much as when we saw the Crystal Method at Nation (in DC), so the two Red Bulls & vodka didn’t sit as well with me this time. But, I survived to write another day!