V - Metal Machine Music (2CD)

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*** Résumé en anglais seulement ***Die Krupps mastermind Jürgen Engler is avisionary who has had a lasting influence on the music landscape for decades. In the late 1970s, he was among the first German punk rockers with his band Male. In the eighties, he formed Die Krupps, a driving force of the industrial and EBM movements. When this scene was taken over by the mainstream in the nineties, the group fromDüsseldorf integrated tough thrash guitars into their sound and became, along with Nine Inch Nails and Ministry, the most important source of inspiration in the electro metal genre, influencing numerous bands of the Neue Deutsche Härte andinspiring a genre that produced acts such bands as Oomph!, Eisbrecher, and Rammstein.Now, Die Krupps comes back to life with its latest release V Metal Machine Music, picking up where IV Paradise Now left off. The title Metal Machine Music has appeared before in the Die Krupps discography: once on the maxi singleof the same name with Accu§er, and once on a 1981 1991 compilation that featured the title s German version. Jürgen Engler doesn t mind. The new album just had to be called Metal Machine Music! The name stands for the ultimate symbiosis of electro and metal, the way I ve always had it in mind. The artwork, with its apocalyptic manmachine theme reminiscent of Mad Max, is a perfect complement.No doubt about it this album sees Die Krupps not only following in the footsteps of their successful electro-metal phase of the nineties, it also sees them go even further in terms of sheer toughness!