Opium is the debut studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released in 1984 by Firstworld. It is one of only two KMFDM studio albums (the other being Nihil) that does not feature cover artwork by pop artist Brute!. There were only a handful of cassette copies of the album that were made. Opium was originally released in a limited run of cassettes and distributed through the Hamburg club scene. In the early 2000s, the original 8-track tapes were salvaged from a house, after surviving a fire and years of sitting in damp boxes. This had left them in a Read more on Last.fm.
