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Die Krupps | |
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 Die Krupps performing in 2018 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 1980–1985, 1989–1997, 2005–present |
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| Members | Jürgen Engler Ralf Dörper Paul Keller Dylan Smith |
| Past members | Marcel Zürcher Nils Finkeisen Rüdiger Esch Christoph "Nook" Michelfeit Bernward Malaka Frank Köllges Eva-Maria Gößling Tina Schnekenburger Walter Jaeger Christopher Lietz Lee Altus Darren Minter George Lewis Oliver Röhl Achim Färber Volker Borchert Bradley Bills Hendrik Thiesbrummel |
| Website | diekrupps |
Die Krupps (German pronunciation: [diː ˈkʁʊps]) ("The Krupps") is a German industrial metal/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper, and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf.[1]
The band has had a diverse range of musical influences over time, including the percussive industrial Stahlwerksynfonie (1981) then to a more synth-pop styled Volle Kraft voraus! (1982) and Entering the Arena (1985), with the latter album featuring their first English-language material. The band later established itself as an industrial metal band, releasing four albums predominantly in this genre, from 1992 to 1997 with each labelled 1 to 4. The band has released additional albums since 1997, including the predominantly electro-industrial Als wären wir für immer (2010) and The Machinists of Joy (2013), before revisiting the metal sound they had pursued in the 90s with V – Metal Machine Music.
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2003). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. pp. 158/9. ISBN 1-85227-969-9.