Starting on August 28th, you will have the chance to get hold of the latest Die Krupps album V - Metal Machine Music.
Way before bands like Rammstein and others emerged, Die Krupps set clear new standards for electronic music with hard metal riffs back in 1991 with their pioneering album I, which included the industrial metal classic Metal Machine Music. The series of numbered albums was continued with II - The Final Option, which helped the succeeding albums III – Odyssey of the Mind and Paradise Now to enter the Europe-wide official Top 20s by featuring further classics like To the Hilt and Fatherland. With their sound Die Krupps ultimately paved the way into Europe for industrial metal bands that were on the ascendant in the US and which also got a growing popularity in Germany.
The decisive impulse for this musical crossover was the collaboration of Die Krupps founder Jürgen Engler and the thrash metal band Accu§er on the album I. Jürgen signed on Accu§er for his Atom H metal label and was their producer in the late eighties. After more than two decades their drummer has returned to Die Krupps to replace the rhythm machine live on stage.
A further important ally during the rock phase in the nineties was Lee Altus, at that time Heathen, today Exodus, who contributed to the next albums. Hard metal riffs paired with the driving sound of sequencers made Die Krupps to an embodiment of innovation: Particularly this mix, which is best described by metal machine music, makes their music timeless and is even after 20 years still a guarantor for full dance floors and energetic live shows.
On August 28th Die Krupps will return to their distinct guitar orientated sound with the release of V – Metal Machine Music. With the new songs the degree of hardness will even be raised considerably! Stylistic this album closes the circle even though Die Krupps never wove extreme brute guitar and hardest sequencer sounds to such an extent before. This will especially become noticeable during the live shows.
Beside the two Krupps machinists Ralf Dörper (synthesizer) and Marcel Zürcher (guitar), Volker Borchert of Accu§er (drums) and Nils Finkeisen (guitar) will complete the line-up.
Initially the album will be released as a double CD in a Digipak and as digital download. Whether the album will also be released on vinyl is still under discussion. To sweeten the time til the release of the album, the new single Battle Extreme / Fly Martyrs Fly will already be published a few days before on August 7th. Details to follow shortly.
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CD1:
01 Die Verdammten (Prelude) 02 Kaltes Herz 03 Battle Extreme 04 Fly Martyrs Fly 05 The Truth 06 Road Rage Warrior 07 The Vampire Strikes Back 08 Alive In A Glass Cage 09 Branded 10 Kaos Reigns11 The Red Line 12 Bonded By Blood 13 Volle Kraft Voraus
CD2:
01 Kaltes Herz (Reworked By Darkhaus) 02 Alive In A Glass Cage (Remixed By Faderhead) 03 Road Rage Warrior ‘82 04 Battle Extreme (Demo) 05 Kaos Reigns (Demo) 06 The Vampire Strikes Back (Demo) 07 Kaltes Herz (Demo) 08 Alive In A Glass Cage (Demo)
