Schkeuditzer Kreuz: Swan Grinding Aotearoa 2026
Fri, Jan 23
|Ding Dong Lounge
NZ-born, Australia-based Industrial Synth Crust artist SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ (Kieren Hills: ATTRITION, S*M*U*T, Dark Horse etc) returns to Aotearoa, touring the third SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ LP, Swan Grinder.
Time & Location
Jan 23, 2026, 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM
Ding Dong Lounge, 26 Wyndham Street, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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New Zealand–born, Australia–based Industrial Synth Crust artist SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ the solo project of Kieren Hills (ATTRITION, S*M*U*T, Dark Horse, Vae Victus, Death Church, Murder Disco X etc) returns to Aotearoa in support of the third SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ LP, Swan Grinder.
Across the international press, Swan Grinder has rapidly become the most widely acclaimed SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ release to date, earning praise from Louder Than War (UK), CVLT Nation (USA), Orkus! (Germany), Discipline Mag (Australia), Side-Line (Belgium), Vive Le Rock (UK), The Big Takeover (USA), Industrial Complexx (Spain), Humans vs. Robots (Italy), SLAM Magazine (Austria), and many more.
Speaking on the album, Kieren explains:
“I took the name Swan Grinder from a swan-shaped pepper grinder I saw. It is about destruction, and death of all things: taking all that is beautiful and worthwhile in this world, and grinding it into dust. That is the album, but it is also about the mess in my head – the noise, the violence, the chaos that rattles…
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