Today, KRØYER aka Ditte Krøyer, co-founder and front growler of feminist black metal band Vulvatorious, releases her third solo single and music video ‘MEIN BRUDER’ from the forthcoming debut album ‘TOWERING IRON’. ‘MEIN BRUDER’, the follow up to the singles ‘GAS STATION’ and ‘FUCKING HARVEST’ from her coming debut solo album, is a heavy, gloomy industrial knife that cuts through Ditte and her brother’s shared origin from the Danish island Lolland. On the new single, Rasmus delivers both scream, growl and guitars and in the accompanying music video for ‘MEIN BRUDER’, KRØYER and her brother dissolve in a sea of shadows.
KRØYER states on the new single and video:
“MEIN BRUDER is a communication between me and my older brother Rasmus Krøyer, who has recorded his growl and scream for the first time ever. Through the production of Sandra Vitayarat, my brother and I meet in an abstract conversational space, where we exchange our personal perspectives of shared history. It is a love song for my brother with my sympathy for the weight he carries.. At the same time it is an internal understanding of what it is like to grow up in the industrial neighbourhood of Nakskov and the longings and dreams that evolved from these areas of iron and concrete. In the music video for ‘MEIN BRUDER’ also produced by Vitayarat, I meet my brother in a sea of shadows, first in grief, then in violence and lastly in peace. The German title references the distanced, but simultaneously close relation that Lolland has to Northern Germany, like in some relations of family.”
You can expect a hard-hitting, dark, electronic musical output from KRØYER when she releases her debut album ‘TOWERING IRON’ with production from Sandra Vitayarat, on 3rd of April 2026. The same night, you can experience KRØYERs new album live at the release concert at Hotel Cecil in Copenhagen, where she will bring her brother Rasmus Krøyer to perform ‘MEIN BRUDER’, which will be the first time Ditte and Rasmus will sing together live. Before the concert you can experience the noise phenomenon Royal Spaceporn. In addition, KRØYER has just announced performances at the prolific Danish festivals Roskilde Festival and SPOT this summer.
Watch the video for 'MEIN BRUDER': KRØYER - MEIN BRUDER FEAT. RASMUS KRØYER
Also, watch the video for 'FUCKING HARVEST' KRØYER - FVCKING HARVEST
KRØYER’s music explores her upbringing in the rural countryside, the deserted liminal spaces in industrial- and agricultural areas. With the sugar industry being present in the middle of KRØYERs birth town Nakskov, and where the sugar fields spread out throughout the island, several generations of her family continue to work. To KRØYER these industrial- and spiritual landscapes, connects her to an area that is socially-, economically- and ecologically challenged.
As a direct product of her surroundings, she now reclaims the area, of which she previously couldn’t get away from fast enough. With deaths, loss and grief, she now seeks to convey the essence of the trauma of the land, personal as well as collective. She is inspired by the Great Flood that fatally hit the island of Lolland in 1872. Through shameless romanticisations, grief and rage, KRØYER now delivers an intense and personal body of work, that differs from her brutal figure in Vulvatorious.
Ditte Krøyer's artistic practice also includes sculpture and performance and she recently had her first solo exhibition 'hard core', curated by Klara Li Scheutz at Platform, in Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen.