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Release Date: 06/12/2024

En Esch's corrosive new album decimates both standards and dance floors alike. Anyone familiar with industrial luminary En Esch and his essential work in groups like KMFDM and PIG knows he is no stranger to political statements through his art. Now, on his first LP in eight years, Dance Hall Putsch, Esch decimates your standards and dance floors with vitriol.

With carefully-sown and complimenting features from fellow KMFDM alumnus Raymond Watts, Guenter Schulz and Mark Durante, plus Vas Kallas (Hanzel und Gretyl), Mea Fisher and Erica Dilanjian (Lords of Acid), Hope Nicholls (Pigface) and more, Dance Hall Putsch delivers everything an industrial fan could want.

From opener "Get Lost," with its categorically punishing industrial-metal riffs to the slicing EBM electronics of "Yum Yum Beauty & The Nasty Thief," it's all here and in no less than four languages throughout.

En Esch's signature rasp is often contrasted by the sparkling vocals of his female counterparts, and the album is lush with brutal honesty, humor, and even a bonus En Esch-lullaby. "I began work on Dance Hall Putsch in the early days of Covid-19. I was trying to create an upbeat, rather positive and very danceable album to leave the pandemic days behind us. Then it happened that a war began near where I live with tens of thousands of civilians killed and wounded so far.

Everyone was caught by surprise and it influenced me, especially lyrically. "This current conflict is just 500 miles away from Berlin, and while that does not make it more horrific than other wars, it is very close to home. From living with this 'war next door,' the album turned out much more sinister than originally planned.

It became a rather political album that reflects on the senselessness and nastiness of all the current wars around us. It's always the innocent and those who hold no power that suffer the most.

Their fate isn't always death, but many times indescribable and long-term suffering. We must not forget them or turn a blind eye. "I’m very pleased that I had the opportunity to collaborate with different and interesting colleagues here.
Thanx everybody for your interest in my musical works and for your love and support." -En Esch

Tracklisting:
1. Get Lost feat. Vas Kallas (Hanzel und Gretyl) 
2. I’m So Sick feat. Mea Fisher aka DJ Mea (Lords of Chaos) 
3. If You Don’t Know Me, You Cannot Judge Me 
4. Eden feat. Gabriel Lennox 
5. Push feat. Raymond Watts (PIG), Erica Dilanjian (Lords of Acid) & Gabriel Lennox 
6. Wahrhaftige Täuschung 
7. Wumms feat. Raymond Watts (PIG) 
8. Do It feat. Hope Nicholls (Pigface) 
9. Yum Yum Beauty & The Nasty Thief feat. Guenter Schulz 
10. Epic feat. Mea Fisher aka DJ Mea (Lords of Acid) 
11. The Sweetest Aggravation feat. Gabriel Lennox & Erica Dilanjian (Lords of Acid) 
12. The Sweetest Aggravation feat. Gabriel Lennox & Erica Dilanjian (Lords of Acid) 
13. World of Deceit