Schkeuditzer Kreuz hail the Sirens of Death with ‘We’ve Always Been at War’

Australian ‘Industrial Synth Crust’ outfit Schkeuditzer Kreuz AKA Kieren Hills has this week premiered the new video for Sirens of Death, the lead single from the forthcoming third album, Swan Grinder. The new video is shot and edited by David Xuereb at Sydney, Australia’s Grim Reflections, who also created the previous Schkeuditzer Kreuz video for Ratchet. Kieren says:

“Sirens is a relatively slow and heavy song, almost a synth version of industrial metal, albeit with some weirdness thrown in.  Lyrically it takes a bleak and blunt look at the eternal war we have been a party to for as long as anyone can remember.  The video tells that story with equally harsh and ugly visuals interspersed with my own vocal howls of rage.”

Premiering the Sirens of Death video on CVLT Nation, Meghan MacRae wrote:

“With industrial synths that make my skin itch in the best way possible, eerie sirens, and gritty, rasping vocals, Sirens of Death demands we break the endless cycle of war that’s lasted thousands of years… It’s the one thing we haven’t made progress on, and Schkeuditzer Kreuz is holding our faces in it with an industrial synth punk beatdown.”

Kieren is meanwhile gearing up to embark on the second Schkeuditzer Kreuz tour across Europe, from September to October 2025, in support of the new Swan Grinder album. Tour dates are currently booked through Central Europe, South Caucasus, Spain, and UK, with more to be confirmed. Released on 30 August 2025, Bandcamp presales for the forthcoming Swan Grinder album also come with a bonus remix CD and denim patch. Kieren says of the album and tour:

“I’ve taken everything I have learned from previous records, and from previous tours, and put it all together to take Swan Grinder on the road across as much of Europe as I possibly can.”

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.