Kochkraft durch KMA

In the local indie punk context, there has hardly been a way around Kochkraft by KMA in recent years. The band from Duisburg-Marxloh plays electropunk, with a sound somewhere between 1990s techno with sludgy low guitars and Neue Deutsche Welle. Since its foundation, the band has earned a reputation as a spectacular live band with well over 300 wild concerts. Their shows are furious, anarchic raves with a lot of energy and escalation, but also with a lot of love, honest joy of playing and a bit of nonsense. Their new studio album ‘Hardcore never dies das’, which was released in spring on Grand Hotel van Cleef, plays to all the strengths of the indie rave punks. The danceable synth/beat structure feigns light entertainment. According to the band, it's about ‘self-optimisation, conservative backlash, permanent crises, turbo capitalism, this and that’. Whether at their own shows, at festivals or on tours with bands as diverse as Team Scheisse, Kettcar, Das Lumpenpack, FJØRT or Adam Angst - Die Kochkraft were always there and ended up taking everyone with them.