Editing Nihil (section)

==Production==
Discussing the change in songwriting from ''Angst'', Konietzko said: "I wasn't comfortable with the band scenario on that album, where everybody had input.  It allowed for too many compromises. ''Angst'' seems not organic to me."<ref name=tribune/> In another interview, he explained: "Contrary to the past, I wrote all the songs for ''Nihil''," adding that doing things that way caused "minimal problems".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.deseret.com/1995/5/5/19173610/no-political-rage-just-life-normal-stuff-for-kmfdm/ | author=Iwasaki, Scott | title=No Political Rage, Just 'Life, Normal Stuff' for KMFDM | work=[[Deseret News]] | date=May 5, 1995 | access-date=2016-11-16}}</ref>

Konietzko stated that the band overused guitars on their previous album, ''Angst'',<ref name=westnet>{{cite web | url=http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1995/April19.1995/revkmfdm.html | author=Roberts, Jamie | title=Interview: KMFDM's Sascha Konietzko | work=Consumable Online | editor=Bob Gajarsky | date=April 19, 1995 | access-date=2016-11-16 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000209210206/http://westnet.com/consumable/1995/April19.1995/revkmfdm.html | archive-date=February 9, 2000 }}</ref> saying it sounded "like guitarists jacking off".<ref name="bruin">{{cite news | access-date=2016-11-16 | url=http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/1995/05/kmfdm-delves-deeper-into-metal | title=KMFDM delves deeper into metal-industrial | publisher=The Daily Bruin | url-status=dead | work=[[Daily Bruin]] | date=May 3, 1995 | author=Gopalan, Nisha | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203022704/http://dailybruin.com/1995/05/02/kmfdm-delves-deeper-into-metal/ | archive-date=3 February 2014}}</ref> On ''Nihil'', the guitars were mixed in last.<ref name=westnet/> Durante had recently purchased a triple-neck Fender steel guitar in Houston, and used it during recording sessions, but added a significant amount of distortion to it, making it sound like a "regular" guitar but giving it what he called a "sliding" sound.<ref name=durante/>  Konietzko also brought in a trio of horn players to perform on "Disobedience", saying he had always wanted a horn section in a KMFDM song, but that he had never been able to afford it before.<ref name=nihil-2007/>

Konietzko originally wrote thirty songs over a period of eight or nine months for ''Nihil'' before settling on ten final tracks.<ref name=bruin/> Watts came into the studio after the songs were mostly complete and added lyrics to a handful of songs, which he said was "actually quite liberating" in contrast to writing his own music from scratch.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.raymondwatts.com/interviews/sonicenvelope.html | title=Raymond Watts Interview | work=Sonic Envelope | date=October 20, 1995 | access-date=2016-11-16}}</ref> Konietzko described the album as being entirely foreplay, without any resolution,<ref name="hypno">{{cite journal|url=http://my.inil.com/~cwphish/EPOWELL_.HTM |author=Powell, Eric |title=KMFDM |journal=Hypno Magazine |year=1995 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713034143/http://my.inil.com/~cwphish/EPOWELL_.HTM |archive-date=July 13, 2011 }}</ref> and said it was the band's best album to date, a statement he believed he would be standing by for years.<ref name=bruin/>  He also said its poppier sound was more his style.<ref name=daily-press>{{cite news | url=http://articles.dailypress.com/1995-10-20/features/9510200261_1_kmfdm-sascha-konietzko-en-esch | author=McDonald, Sam | title=Moral Minority German-born Industrial Rock Group Kmfdm Has 'No Pity For The Majority' | work=[[Daily Press (Virginia)|Daily Press]] | date=October 20, 1995 | access-date=July 14, 2012 | archive-date=June 26, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626174735/http://articles.dailypress.com/1995-10-20/features/9510200261_1_kmfdm-sascha-konietzko-en-esch | url-status=dead }}</ref>  Konietzko produced the album with [[sound engineer]] [[Chris Shepard]],<ref name=Nihil-1995/> who had also engineered the band's previous album.<ref>{{cite AV media notes | title=Angst | others=KMFDM | year=1993 | type=CD booklet | publisher=[[Wax Trax! Records]] | location=Chicago, Illinois}}</ref>