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Die Kreuzen

American rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Die Kreuzen is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois formed in 1981. Shortly after, they relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The name, which was taken from a German Bible, is grammatically incorrect German for "the crosses". They began as a hardcore punk group and evolved musically to alternative rock.

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“Die Kreuzen” enters the record as american rock band. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kreuzen, American and rock can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kreuzen, American and rock.
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This entry incorporates text from “Die Kreuzen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.