DIE KRUPPS & SCHATTENMANN live im Columbia Theater ⚡️

In the organizer's words:

Steel, work, muscle power, sweat, machines, industry ... but also structural change, unemployment, uprooting, xenophobia and fear of the future: powerful vocabulary that DIE KRUPPS have always used and which they fill with content, to which they bind visions, which they cast into solid foundations for music - for their very own sound, which has constantly changed over almost four decades and yet remained unmistakable. DIE KRUPPS are true pioneers who are not only at home in several sound worlds, but also set the course for the unheard and were and are significantly responsible for the development of new genres.

In the fading 70s, Jürgen Engler brought punk to Germany with his band MALE, and in the 80s and 90s he and his congenial partner Ralf Dörper established EBM and electro-metal. To date, DIE KRUPPS have moved between the poles of EBM/industrial and groovy metal, albeit with different emphases. While "The Machinists Of Joy" (2013) emphasized electronics and the last album "Metal Machine Music" (2015) was brute and metallic, "Vision 2020 Vision" is the concentrate of the groundbreaking band phase between 1992 and 1997, the final, perfect fusion of two musical worlds. Analog synthesizers sound raw and powerful, underpinning the heavy thrash riffs of guitarist Marcel Zürcher and making the current KRUPPS sound more driving and dynamic than ever.

Crisp verses, catchy hooklines, striking breaks, marching bass, gripping choruses - Dörper and co-writer Engler wrote some of their best songs ever for "Vision 2020 Vision". Music, artwork and lyrics are inextricably linked, fuelling and fertilizing each other. Jürgen Engler's world on the cover is gray and dreary, but the imminent one he sees through his glasses should and must be frightening. At the same time, DIE KRUPPS remain thematically topical and relevant: "Extinction Time" and "DestiNation Doomsday" describe our world on the brink, "Alllies" and "Fuck You" are addressed to overseas, where selfishness, isolation and ruthlessness are dictated from the top, "Human" settles accounts with all of humanity and the title track says: "Violence will soon explode, frustration reaches overload, revolution is imminent, we're in the year of discontent". What remains is the hope that DIE KRUPPS will not be proven right in this case.