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Queen Of The Meadow

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KRUGER joined in 2001, due to the severe inactivity of members of Rude, Sweet Disease, and Sludge. Their debut album was released in 2002, shortly after the band's birth, to ensure them the great pleasure to play live. ♠BUILT FOR SPEED♠, made of 9 mid-paced and heavy tracks, was recorded and mixed in a few days with TVO (Knut, Shora) at the Smelly Room studio in Geneva.
The band spent 2002 + 2003 playing around with the likes of Sleeppers, Isis, Gojira... Then was the time to let bassist Makro leave for his two main bands Sludge and Samael, to welcome a new young man, Blaise, and start working on a second album.
♣CATTLE TRUCK♣ was "home-recorded" in spring 2004 at Bellefontaine Studio, Lausanne and mixed in three days by Fredrik Nordström (Soilwork, Opeth, At the Gates), then mastered by Peter In de Betou (Dimmu Borgir, Entombed, Nine).
Still on RRRecords, this second effort was released in Europe (with distribution in most western territories) by the end of 2004 and warmly received by many magazines and webzines in Europe and elsewhere.
After some cool shows in 2005 with the likes of Dillinger Escape Plan, Unsane and Cult Of Luna and a memorable apparition at the Fury Fest Festival, KRUGER has cooked a new heavy and loaded dose of modern noise metal for their third opus ♣REDEMPTION THROUGH LOOSENESS♣ which was released this spring on LISTENABLE RECORDS.
The album has been recorded in Lausanne, Switzerland, at Bellefontaine studio by J.Fehlmann and J.Kovaks. The mix was handled by Kurt ballou (Converge, Cave In...) and the mastering by Alan Douches (Mastodon, DEP, Nile).
Gloomy and dark, yet overwhelmingly powerful, this new 9-track album drowns the band’s acknowledged influences (Breach, Entombed, Tool, Godflesh, Neurosis) in an intense magma of shredding metallurgic charges, drilling vocal turpitudes and desperate naked heaviness. Thematically still stuck in out-of-subject considerations and cynical bottle stories, KRUGER drive faster and louder, crashing the post-hardcore clichés in their way.
"Have a drink, relax, be loose. Redemption: it's the Kruger way."

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Member Since: 2/20/2006
Band Website: www.kruger.ch"kruger.ch
Band Members: Reno : vox

Margo : guitar

Jak : guitar

Blaise : bass

Raph : drums

Booking:
Management & Booking : [email protected] - Renaud
Booking France : Anthem Prod. / Jeremy / [email protected]
Booking UK : First Agency / Tony / [email protected]
Booking NL : Glam Bookings / Joost / [email protected]

Check KRUGER on Last.fm
http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Kruger

Influences: ♠REDEPTIOON THROUGH LOOSENESS REVIEWS♠

"Consequently, this is one post-metal band with an emphasis on proper, fist-pumping metal, not to mention a sense of individuality that emerges from the album-long-pile-up of consistently heavy riffage to frequently touch on greatness."
KERRANG

"The Swiss quintet’s third album brims with finely-honed chops retrofitted for maximum subversion"
DECIBEL

KERRANG - 4 / 5
ROCK HARD GERMANY - 8,5 / 10
METAL HAMMER GERMANY - 6 / 7
HARD ROCK MAGAZINE - 8 / 10
METALLIAN - 5.5 / 6
ROCKSOUND - 5 / 6
HARD'N'HEAVY - 4 / 5
METAL.DE - 8 / 10
PITRIFF.COM- 9 / 10
PAPERCUTS WEBZINE - 5/5
LORDSOFMETAL.NL - 82 / 100
BURNYOUREARS.DE - 9 / 10

Sounds Like: Drums, bass, guitars, howls and chants in no particular order...

Record Label: www.listenable.net
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Kruger playing at DOUR’s 20th edition !

After hitting the mighty Roaburn Festival and the fierce Hellfest in June, KRUGER is confirmed at one of european most wanted summer events, the 20th edition of the DOUR FESTIVAL (www.dourfestival....
Posted by Kruger on Tue, 20 May 2008 05:21:00 PST

Back from the Roadburn Festival

Kruger is back from the mighty ROADBURN festival and all we can say is : This is how festivals should be like ! Massive sound, terrific crew, amazing audience, fresh booze - we definitely had a bl...
Posted by Kruger on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:41:00 PST

Back from the UK !

The Kruger sissies have just returned from a totally punk-rock UK tour along with the mighty BOSSK. 10 dates of pure rock fury in 10 towns, from south coast (Copsale, the tiniest AND greatest place i...
Posted by Kruger on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:45:00 PST

Redemption Through Vinyl

Kruger's acclaimed "Redemption Through Looseness" has finally been released in in a beautiful vinyl gatefold edition limited to 500 copies.You can grab one at a Kruger show near you...To order it ple...
Posted by Kruger on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:50:00 PST

Kruger rearing its ugly head at the Roadburn Festival

Kruger will be displaying a massive dose of heavy'n'dirty metallic noise on April 19th at the amazing Roadburn Festival (NL) with the likes of Celtic Frost, Isis and some other great bands.Roadburn Re...
Posted by Kruger on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:45:00 PST

New website online !

Kruger's official new website is finally online.News, songs, videos, tons of pics and a lot more to check out...The merchandising section will be completed soon.www.kruger.ch...
Posted by Kruger on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:02:00 PST

On the road with Unsane

Kruger will be hitting the european roads with noise-rock legends Unsane for two weeks !Check our tour dates, come at the shows and let's share some beers together !We're looking forward to see you !!...
Posted by Kruger on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:13:00 PST

"Queen Of The Meadow" video online...

Directed by Michael Bernadat for 101 Productions, the video was shot in a couple of hours in a rusty hangar lost somewhere in the french countryside on April 20th.
Posted by Kruger on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:28:00 PST

Redemption first reviews

ROCKSOUND avril 2007"Redemption Through Looseness" est aussi aventureux qu'il est rassurant. De bruit et de fureur, l'étincelle divine en plus."HARD'N'HEAVY avril 2007"Avec ce nouvel album, Kruger se ...
Posted by Kruger on Sun, 06 May 2007 06:40:00 PST

New album mixed in Salem, Massachussets

We're currently mixing "Redemption Through Looseness" at Godcity Recordings, Salem, Massachussets. Kurt Ballou is a true gentleman and will hopefully manage to bring something good out of the pile of...
Posted by Kruger on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:29:00 PST