Schkeuditzer Kreuz is Dystopian Electronica from the Blue Mountains in Australia - one human and some machines, making noise, in the face of it all.

"S.K. is that fantastic intersection between crust punk and hard industrial synth… This band is doing something way different for extreme genres, it’s also amazingly original and heavy as hell"
- Devil's Horns Zine

New Album Swan Grinder) Out 30th August: Pre-Order Here

VIDEOS

...video weaves together war footage and protest imagery, creating a visceral commentary on perpetual conflict. As Hills notes: “The video tells that story – the death, the destruction and the suffering. The eternal war. From muskets to MQ-9s while we feed people into that endless meatgrinder. Just one more war. Just one more
fix.”
Discipline Mag








– CVLT Nation"...At what point in our lives to we agree to take part in the performance of human society? As SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ‘s beats rain down on me like hammers from the sky and the buzz and hum of “Ratchet”‘s melody interferes with my brain waves, I think about that point where I lost who I really was to the game of getting along with everyone else so I could grasp at feelings of being safe and cared for. To be honest, it wasn’t a game I was great at, but now I’m starting to understand that this doesn’t indicate some deep flaw in me."CVLT Nation








“…listening to the chaotic sounds of industrial synth crust // d-beat raw synth punk multi-machinist SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ perfectly captures the disgust and fear I felt watching the country descend into yet another Libs vs Cons debate… On “Second Life,” he samples soundbites from the dizzying and disorienting media bullshit that follows a mass shooting, chanting “Another one dead / and another one fucking dies”!”
CVLT Nation






Joy is the single and a killer choice, and also a clear indicator of the mammoth progression/step up on this album, the samples, and the synth work/programming is just wild, robotically entrancing and so apocalyptic. Sometimes you just need an animated and gloomy electronic sledgehammer to your face; well at least I do.
Devil's Horns Zine










“New South Wales-based artist Schkeuditzer Kreuz (alias Kieren Hills) unleashes a ferocious reworking of the track, combining dark, abrasive post-industrial influences with DIY punk. Difficult to pigeonhole musically, Kieren defines the Schkeuditzer Kreuz sound as “D-Beat Raw Synth Punk” – also the name of an EP from earlier in 2021. This cover is dissonant static, an eerie voice cutting through the din and scratches; a disembodied Big Brother.”
Post-punk.com

Australia’s Schkeuditzer Kreuz is about to embark on their second tour across Europe from September to October 2025, in support of the third album, Swan Grinder (August 2025). Live dates are currently booked through Central Europe, South Caucasus, Spain, and UK, with more to be confirmed. Variously termed “Industrial Synth Crust”, “D-beat Raw Synth Punk”, and “One human and some machines making noise, in the face of it all”, Schkeuditzer Kreuz is a mutant post-apocalyptic hybrid: an intersection between harsh, confronting, mechanical noise and the comparatively raw, organic materials of hardcore, crust, and d-beat punk. It is a noise wrought from the anguish and despair of Antipodean punk veteran Kieren Hills, from a cabin that he built in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.

Since 2020, Schkeuditzer Kreuz has released two full-length studio albums: Isolated and Alone (2021) and No Life Left (2023), alongside a raft of singles, videos, EPs, split-releases, compilation tracks, and remix collaborations. As a live act, Schkeuditzer Kreuz remains in constant live demand worldwide: touring extensively across the UK and mainland Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and recently touring Australia with pioneering UK industrial legends ATTRITION (Oct-Nov 2024) and US anarcho-breakcore outfit, DECIDE TODAY (Dec 2024-Jan 2025). Kieren has since become a touring live member of ATTRITION (Oct-Nov 2024), with ATTRITION / Schkeuditzer Kreuz tour dates together in 2025 including shows in Thailand, Hong Kong, and England. Critically acclaimed, Schkeuditzer Kreuz has received high praise from the likes of Louder Than War (UK), CVLT Nation (US), Sonic Seducer (Germany), Auxiliary Magazine (US), Side-Line (Belgium), Cave Dweller Music (US), ReGen Magazine (US) and untold others.
Playing in bands for over 35 years, Kieren Hills began his journey into underground music in New Zealand, during the late 1980s, before relocating to Australia with riotous Wellington NZ punk rock group, S.M.U.T., in 1993. He turned up a few years later in Stuttgart, Germany’s Murder Disco X; followed by countless Sydney underground bands, including crust punk / d-beat merchants Vae Victis; hardcore legends Dark Horse; and deathrock / gothic punk outfit Death Church, to name a few.

Beyond punk, Kieren traces his discovery of noisy industrial and experimental electronic music to his youth in New Zealand, influenced by a previous generation of punk musicians who had begun to explore different possibilities: Skeptics, Gordons, Headless Chickens, Froit Head, CeLL, Invisible Dead, and Children’s Television Workshop among them. These local groups in turn led Kieren to the music of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire; Laibach and Einstürzende Neubauten; Ministry, Big Black, and Butthole Surfers. In later years, Kieren also became a fan of Australia’s Knife, Religious Observance, and Kollaps; and KUBINE from Yokohama, Japan. Following “the wreck of the plague year twenty-twenty”, Kieren says, there was a “greater affinity with machines, making the creation of Schkeuditzer Kreuz inevitable.”
Swan Grinder is the third full-length Schkeuditzer Kreuz album, mastered at The Cage by ATTRITION‘s Martin Bowes, and scheduled for release in August, followed by the European tour in September and October 2025.

MUSIC

SWAN GRINDER LP - To be released 30/08/2025
“On latest album, Swan Grinder, Hills presents his most focused assault yet on societal complacency… Hills has carved out a distinctly antipodean take on industrial music, one that marries the confrontational spirit of crust punk with the mechanical brutality of EBM and harsh electronics. Swan Grinder… finds the Australian artist refining his “Industrial Synth Crust” formula whilst maintaining the politically charged urgency that defines his work… The project’s ethos… recalls the confrontational man + machine solo endeavour of Author & Punisher, whilst the samples and social commentary echo the energy of Ministry’s peak-era provocations. Yet Hills has forged something uniquely his own in that of a grinding, mechanised form, channelling environmental and political rage through distorted synthesisers and pummelling rhythms.”
Discipline Mag
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Schkeuditzer Kreuz/Decide Today DIGITAL WOLVES split EP - - released 30/11/24
Digital Wolves sees Schkeuditzer Kreuz ... tackle standalone single ‘Choke’ on side A, showcasing the doomier domain of the post-industrial experimental project, and an assault on the ears comes with side B in the form of two confronting, abrasive, politically-charged numbers from ... Decide Today’s Worldwide Intifada EP; ‘Revolutionary Reason (Worldwide Intifada)’, and ‘The Shit Punx Hate 4’. The tracks see Inhuman lean into the industrial, breakcore, darkwave and ambient styling adopted by Decide Today following the end of the original Realicide band at the turn of 2011, while its subject matter maintains focus akin to anarcho-punk and radical hip-hop... Digital Wolves is dark, dangerous and deathly good.
Forte
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NO LIFE LEFT LP - Released 25/08/2023
“Album of the year, believe it! Schkeuditzer Kreuz is the king… What an album, one for the ages, one for the savages, the dancey, the punks and the goths and anyone else that wants to join the party. But an intense, action-packed and tremendous album, and one that is one of this year’s best.”
Devil’s Horns Zine
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Second Life: No Life Left Remixed - Released 03/12/2023
Remixes from No Life Left by:
Distruster
Max Rael
Creassault
Non-Bio
Crash-Scan
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Isolated and Alone LP - Released 14/12/2021
“Taking the politics and fury of d-beat and anarcho-punk, then blending them with treated vocals, harsh industrial synths and queasy dance-punk rhythms, Isolated And Alone is a terrifying yet enjoyable journey into the darkness of dehumanised, repressive society"
4ZZZ
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UPCOMING SHOWS

Sydney Release Party for the new LP SWAN GRINDERPlaying live with long time friends INEBRIOUS BASTARD and new found friends THE LIMITEDThere will be a bunch of giveaways and door prizes including free badges and patches and special release party only merch.We are holding this in a small warehouse in Marrickville with limited capacity so I highly recommened BUYING TICKETS HERE in advance or risk missing out

Sat 2nd AugustThe Trocadero Room - SydneyTickets
Sat 30th AugustMonster Mouse - SydneyTickets

EUROPE 2025

Thu 18th SeptGoldmarks - Stuttgart, GERMANY
Fri 19th SeptSchrottbar - Biel/Bienne, SWITZERLAND
Sat 20th SeptWagenplatz - Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Sun 21st SeptRomp - Luzern, SWITZERLAND
Wed 24th SeptQuarterdeck - Basel, SWITZERLAND
Thu 25th SeptHorst - Kreuzlingen, SWITZERLAND
Fri 26th SeptSecret Place - Tbilisi, GEORGIA
Sat 27th SeptCity Bar - Tbilisi, GEORGIA
Sun 28th SeptMuha Bar - Yerevan, ARMENIA
Tue 30th SeptTBC - Tbilisi, GEORGIA
Wed 1st OctTBC
Thu 2nd OctCafe Bosch - Arnhem, NETHERLANDS
Fri 3rd OctTBC - Copenhagen, DENMARK
Sat 4th OctKafe 44 - Stockholm, SWEDEN
Sun 5th OctTBC, SWEDEN
Wed 8th OctTBC - Gdansk, POLAND
Thu 9th OctTBC - Děčín, CZECH REPUBLIC
Fri 10th OctNoisebar - Bohuslavice, CZECH REPUBLIC
Sat 11th OctConnewitz - Leipzig, GERMANY
Sun 12th OctWiesbaden, GERMANY
Wed 15th OctLa Diskordia - Madrid, SPAIN
Thu 16th OctRock Beer The New - Santander, SPAIN
Fri 17th OctBola8 - Gijon, SPAIN
Sat 18th OctSala Asatru - A Coruña, SPAIN
Sun 19th OctBilbao, SPAIN
Wed 22nd OctTBC, UK
Thu 23rd OctThe Peer Hat - Manchester, UK
Fri 24th OctTBC, UK
Sat 25th OctThe Black Bull - Gateshead, UK

Australia Swan Grinder Release Tour 2025

Fri 21st NovBanshees - Ipswich
Sat 22nd NovVinnies - Gold Coast
Sun 23rd NovBad Habit Nambour
Sat 29th NovHotel Metro - Adelaide

Merch

The third SK LP out August 30th 2025.

Cover Art by Art by Godwicked Studio
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Second Pressing of the second SK LP.

Cover Art by Nesa at Doomsday Graphics
Released on Bad Habit RecordsBUY IT HERE

Split 7" with Decide Today.

Cover Art by Art by Godwicked Studio

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Double sided shirts on AS Colour shirts

Front print is from the split record with Decide Today
Art by Godwicked Studio

Back print is a comment a random human made on one of my songs I put up on social media - immortalized on this lovely shirt
Sizes S - XXXLBUY IT HERE

Synth Crust design by Glenno Smith on AS Colour shirts.Sizes S - XXXLBUY IT HERE

Digital Wolves patchHigh detail embroidered patch for the Decide Today/Schkeuditzer Kreuz tour in late 24/early 25Art by BorgBUY IT HERE