V Metal Machine Music

Background

The album sees the band returning "to a distinctly guitar-heavy sound". The album derives its name from one of the band's earlier tracks 'Metal Machine Music', a single off the Album 'I'.

"Die Verdammten" is a guitar enriched rework of the Tour Intro the band had used on their 2011 and 2014 tours. "The Vampire Strikes Back" is a rework of a song previously released on a Wing Commander OST album in 1998, thus being the bands last song recorded prior to its temporary breakup. Alive In A Glass Cage, Road Rage Warrior and Volle Kraft Voraus are also older songs that were re-recorded. "The Red Line" was first released in an alternate version in 2014 as a B-Side to the "Robo Sapien" single.

Track listing

All music composed by Jürgen Engler and Marcel Zürcher, except where noted.

Singles

"Battle Extreme / Fly Martyrs Fly" was released 2 weeks prior to the album with a lyric video accompanying the A-Side. "Kaltes Herz" followed in late 2015 with "Branded" as the B-Side, supported by a promo video directed by Faderhead. "Alive In A Glass Cage" was released prior to the bands first ever Wacken Open Air gig, the track was rerecorded as a collaboration with Caliban, the single featured a remix of the title track by Chant, a project of Die Krupps' 2014 live drummer, and a live recording of "Nazis On Speed" in Berlin from 2015. Video footage for another promo clip, "Road Rage Warrior", was shot during the Kaltes Herz recording session according to the official band page, but has not been released to date.

Die Krupps

Technical personnel