Kraftwerk – Heavy Metal Kids

A live rarity from the early days of Kraftwerk.

Recorded live for Radio Bremen in June 1971, whilst Ralf Hutter was taking a 6 month brief break from the band, and instead features the Rother/Dinger/Schneider line up.

This is a very hard rocking krautrock number.

Featuring:
FLORIAN SCHNEIDER – flute with effects.
MICHAEL ROTHER – guitar.
KLAUS DINGER – drums.

Pre – Neu! days and this track gives a taster of what was to come from Neu! in the future.

Eventually Dinger and Rother would leave KRAFTWERK to form NEU!.

Later on in the year Ralf Hutter would rejoin KRAFTWERK and electronic history would be made there after.

Reason that Ralf Hutter did NOT participate during this brief moment of the band (late 1970-mid 1971)is apparently he wanted to complete his Studies. Since mid-1971 Hutter was back.

It is rumoured that a drummer called Charley Weiss and a bassist/cellist (now an artist) Eberhard Krannemann also collaborated around this time, but not on this recording at least.

Sadly Klaus Dinger died in March 2008.

Duration : 0:7:53


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25 Responses to Kraftwerk – Heavy Metal Kids

  1. GrindThrash7 says:

    out during like …
    out during like black sabbath’s time

  2. cheeezdooodle says:

    what does the rest …
    what does the rest of this album sound like?
    just as heavy?

  3. Kenckaplus says:

    man… this is …
    man… this is amazing, hail them

  4. jonthefawn says:

    I agree.
    I agree.

  5. jonthefawn says:

    I agree.
    I agree.

  6. elephanta2 says:

    Nice heavy metal by …
    Nice heavy metal by Kraftwerk.

  7. DancingSpiderman says:

    @ 1:24 sounds like …
    @ 1:24 sounds like the beginning of fricken “iron Man” by that babbling weirdo, what’shisface? Ozzy

  8. ApacheLabel says:

    does anyone else …
    does anyone else like this more than black sabbath other than me?

  9. DiaPeatafifh says:

    uhmbrauche dringend …
    uhmbrauche dringend beschäftigung bin so einsam! Jemand zu chatn

  10. biker666girl says:

    @LoneWolf343 hahaha …
    @LoneWolf343 hahaha
    i know i cant spell
    dont take the xD

  11. LoneWolf343 says:

    @biker666girl Can’t …
    @biker666girl Can’t be worse than your spelling.

  12. Bluehawk2008 says:

    “Pre – Neu! days …
    “Pre – Neu! days and this track gives a taster of what was to come from Neu! in the future.”

    How come more of Neu’s tracks don’t sound anything like this?

  13. biker666girl says:

    this is F******* …
    this is F******* terebul
    sounds like shit

  14. ziennc says:

    @antikoerper i have …
    @antikoerper i have the original flac of this gig (60 min)

  15. god696 says:

    wtf is this?!?!?!?! …
    wtf is this?!?!?!?!?!?!

  16. harry20108 says:

    jear kraftwerk… …
    jear kraftwerk…das beste von damals bis heute immer wieder gern gehört……..

  17. swampratje says:

    bizar, defining …
    bizar, defining Stoner?! Fantastic!

  18. cetacious says:

    You just gotta …
    You just gotta Loooove the way it starts all being senseless machine noice and slowly, unnoticedly, slips into awesome rythm and music, but without ever ceising to be noisy! Just brilliant.

  19. antikoerper says:

    This track is in …
    This track is in fact “Vom Himmel hoch” from tKraftwerk’s first, self-titled album. I am really surprised about the good sound quality.

  20. antikoerper says:

    This track is in …
    This track is in fact “Vom Himmel hoch” from tKraftwerk’s first, self-titled album. I am really surprised about the good sound quality.

  21. sheppar says:

    This sounds like …
    This sounds like Kyuss!!! Amazing.

  22. emmo73 says:

    und es ist in …
    und es ist in stereo. or is it im stereo? i’m not really sure.

  23. ewann94 says:

    thumb down..a …
    thumb down..a boring one..no offense..

  24. NORMLduder says:

    this is very …
    this is very interesting to me… def not what i expected to hear when i clicked on Kraftwerk lol… i love it though

    I WANT THIS RECORD!!! : )

    p.s. no synth or electronic at all?

  25. MrBigkev70 says:

    sounds like …
    sounds like sabbath.cool!