The Machinists of Joy is the eighth album by German Industrial/EBM band Die Krupps. The album was released on October 25, 2013 in four formats: normal digipak CD, limited two-CD digipak, a fan box and as a limited LP/CD combo. The album is a tribute to the band's past. It harkens the Düsseldorf Punk scene before their first release Stahlwerksynfonie, abandoning their attempts at metal. The album derives its name from one of the band's earlier tracks 'Machineries of Joy', a cover of Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn done by Ralf Dörper and Nitzer Ebb in 1989. The album includes collaboration with Métal Urbain and Derniere Volonté. The Machinists of Joy is the eighth album by German Industrial/EBM band Die Krupps. The album was released on October 25, 2013 in four formats: normal digipak CD, limited two-CD digipak, a fan box and as a limited LP/CD combo. The album is a tribute to the band's past. It harkens the Düsseldorf Punk scene before their first release Stahlwerksynfonie, abandoning their attempts at metal. The album derives its name from one of the band's earlier tracks 'Machineries of Joy', a cover of Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn done by Ralf Dörper and Nitzer Ebb in 1989. The album includes collaboration with Métal Urbain and Derniere Volonté. false 2023-07-15 10:21:21 9 2013 2013-10-25 2013-10-25 21 Ebm Electronic Industrial Rock 112912 2251415 f0cd5777-4b34-419e-acc3-fdfc5a8abd04 fc555365-17a2-4820-84e8-400887aa3d6f a542c60a-60d4-4fb6-8682-7626183d22db /media/data/media4/Music/Die Krupps/The Machinists of Joy (2013)/Enhanced CD 02/folder.jpg Die Krupps AlbumArtist Die Krupps Artist Die Krupps Die Krupps 1 05:31 2 02:19 3 04:23 4 04:40 5 04:04 Die Krupps (German pronunciation: [diː ˈkʁʊps]) ("The Krupps") is a German industrial metal/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf. The band has had a diverse range of musical influences over time, including the percussive industrial Stahlwerksynfonie (1981) then to a more synth-pop styled Volle Kraft voraus! (1982) and Entering the Arena (1985), with the latter album featuring their first English-language material. The band later established itself as an industrial metal band, releasing four albums predominantly in this genre, from 1992 to 1997 with each labelled 1 to 4. The band has released additional albums since 1997, including the predominantly electro-industrial Als wären wir für immer (2010) and The Machinists of Joy (2013), before revisiting the metal sound they had pursued in the 90s with V – Metal Machine Music. Synthetic Symphony