After several years of maintenance DIE KRUPPS greased the machines and shook off the dust to open their factory gates again.
The long-awaited new album „THE MACHINISTS OF JOY“ is rolled off the assembly line on 25.10.2013. With this most recent effort DIE KRUPPS seamlessly pick up the streak of their genre-defining releases in the '80's and '90's. Referring to their top-10 billboard-hit from 1989 "MACHINERIES OF JOY", the album title already hints at a stronger focus on electronic sounds, rather than guitars, which dominates the current outfit of DIE KRUPPS. However, resolute riffs have been worked into the songs very pointedly. Eventually DIE KRUPPS still deliver „Metal Machine Music“ - heavy, danceable, sometimes epic machine-music, adorned with well-placed guitar attacks and the ever-onward hammering of the „steel-o-phone“, paired with critical contemporary lyrics, setting themselves off from the usual stuff that has become the norm today.
The first 12 dates so far, including club-shows and festivals in Germany, Austria, Czech, Hungary and Switzerland: Pre-sales began 21.10.2013.Tickets at www.protain-ticket.de, www.eventim.de and on all nationwide EVENTIM box-offices.
DIE KRUPPS + special guests “THE MACHINISTS OF JOY”-TOUR 2014
14.02.2014 D- Dresden - Eventwerk
15.02.2014 CZ- Prague - Meet Factory
16.02.2014 HU- Budapest - Dürer Kert
18.02.2014 A- Vienna - Szene
19.02.2014 D- Munich - Backstage Werk
20.02.2014 D- Nuremberg - Rockfabrik
21.02.2014 CH- Pratteln - Z7
22.02.2014 D- Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle
23.02.2014 D- Hamburg - Markthalle
25.02.2014 D- Berlin - C-Club
26.02.2014 D- Frankfurt a.M. - Batschkapp
27.02.2014 D- Hanover - Musikzentrum
01.03.2014 RU - Moskau | Plan B
02.03.2014 RU - St. Petersburg | Zal Ojidanija
