Background
In late 1995, KMFDM was coming off their "Beat by Beat" and "In Your Face" tours in support of their last album, Nihil. KMFDM frontman and founder Sascha Konietzko had described Nihil as "the crown", and said that the band had come as close to mainstream popularity as he wanted. He stated the band needed to move away from it. Konietzko returned to Chicago in order to be with his friend, Jim Nash, co-founder of Wax Trax! Records, who was dying from AIDS. Konietzko referred to the death of Nash that October as "the end of an era."
En Esch, one of the longtime core members of KMFDM, had almost nothing to do with Xtort, contributing to just two songs. With regards to Esch's lack of participation, Konietzko said "En Esch is just En Esch. He never made himself available to do this album, and so it's always my belief that the thing must keep moving; I had to do it without him." He also stated that the two were not in communication around the time of the album's release.
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