Crunch

Crunch is a Moscow industrial project active since 1992. It is associated with industrial, IDM, glitch, hardcore and electronic music, and is one of several acts that have used the name Crunch.

Musical context

The project appears as a Russian industrial noise act from Moscow. Its material is described as dark, intricate IDM with melodic elements running underneath, and it is linked with Funkstorung’s Musik Aus Strom imprint through a release that brought the project to wider attention.

Name and related acts

The name Crunch is also used by a German alternative band from Haltern am See, a British glam rock band, a 1990s Italian hardcore band from Turin, a hardcore band from Istanbul also known as Kranch, a modern Israeli jazz, blues, funk and afrobeat band, a Berlin rock band formed in 2008, an all-female alternative rock band from Nagoya, and a ska-based side project by Lee Thompson and Chris Foreman of Madness. The Russian industrial act is the Moscow-based project active from 1992 onward.