until his return in June 2026
Nils Finkeisen then played both guitar duties for a short time, until he left in 2024.
In 2023, Die Krupps’ main guitarist of 18 years, Marcel Zürcher, left the band
In 2022, Kanka joined with Martin Bodewell of Orange Sector to form a side project named Kanka Bodewell . The duo released two albums, Herzblut in 2022 and Stroboscope in 2024.
In 2021, the band joined former label mates, Orange Sector , to co-release a single, “War of the Religions”. “War of the Religions” reached #8 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC).
After several more years, the band released the single “Herbstzeitlose” in 2018, followed by the single “Heut Nacht” and album Dystopia in 2020.
In 2013, the band released their first full new album since 1997, an industrial/EBM record called The Machinists of Joy , and in 2015, they released the heavy metal influenced album V – Metal Machine Music . In 2016, the band recorded Stahlwerkrequiem , a sequel/recording of the band’s first…
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In 2011, Armageddon Dildos signed with Alfa Matrix and released their first album in six years: Untergrund . On Untergrund , Kanka worked with producer Mattias Black, as well as musicians Rene Nowotny and Ulf Häusgen and Kanka’s daughter Denise (aka Malin) on guest vocals.
In 2010, Die Krupps released an EP entitled ” Als wären wir für immer “, which comprises two original electronic based tracks, two original metal based tracks, and a cover of Propaganda’s 1980s hit ” Dr Mabuse “. At that time the first true new material since 1997. To celebrate…
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The influential back-catalogue of Die Krupps has been remastered and expanded. So far four of their previous albums; Stahlwerksynfonie , Volle Kraft voraus , I and Final Option have been re-released. Volle Kraft Null Acht was released in 2009, which is a remix album of Volle Kraft voraus!