Music News - The "subversive content" of Schkeuditzer Kreuz finally sees physical release
20 January 2022 - 0 Comments
The “subversive content” of Australian harsh, industrial noise/death-industrial outfit Schkeuditzer Kreuz finally saw physical release this past week, after original copies pressed offshore earlier this year were deemed “unfit for export”, and destroyed by local authorities.
Schkeuditzer Kreuz is Kieren Hills: expat New Zealand punk veteran, now based in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Currently a member of Sydney hardcore band Dark Horse; occasional deathrock/gothic punk outfit Death Church; and a former member of riotous Wellington, New Zealand punk rock group S.M.U.T. (among others): Schkeuditzer Kreuz applies Kieren’s extensive background in DIY punk to creating dark, abrasive post-industrial music, and his idiosyncratic one-human-and-many-machines live multimedia performances.
The lead single and video, Broken, appeared earlier this month, and deals with trauma, mental health, and suicidal ideation in the wake of other friends’ suicides. The album overall meanwhile confronts themes of sensory overload, dehumanisation, alienation, and marginalisation; and the generally horrific / traumatic state of the global socio-political climate outside.
“The sound of the record revolves around the feeling of hopelessness, despair, and isolation that has been so prevalent over the past couple years as the world has descended into a boiling mess of fear, mistrust, pain, and paranoia as the virus gives us a sneak peak of how our species will end itself. An expression of the mix of hostility and loneliness that we have all endured, and which none of us felt prepared for.” – Kieren.
All proceeds from digital sales on Bandcamp are donated to Transcend Australia, to support trans and gender-diverse youth. Physical LPs are distributed by Bad Habit Records and Already Broken Records in Australia, and Pyrrhic Defeat Records in Europe.
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