Wumpscut returns with new 8-track album ‘Zuckerpuppe’ on Betonkopf Media
Wumpscut returns with new 8-track album 'Zuckerpuppe' on Betonkopf Media
Betonkopf Media announces “Zuckerpuppe” (German for “sugar baby”), a new eight-track album by German electro-industrial project Wumpscut, scheduled for April 3, 2026 on Betonkopf Media in limited LP and CD editions. The album appears as a 300-copy yellow vinyl LP and as a CD in a so-called “Back is Front” edition.
The limited LP “Zuckerpuppe” comes on yellow vinyl in a heavy 3 mm spine outer sleeve with a four-colour printed inner sleeve and uses direct metal mastering. The edition is limited to 300 copies worldwide.
The CD version of “Zuckerpuppe” is issued in a “Back is Front” edition with a 12-page full-colour booklet. The CD shares the same eight-track running order as the LP. Ahead of the album, Wumpscut has already issued the related “Zerebral Date (Zuckerpuppe Remix Contest Kit)” digitally via Bandcamp at the end of 2025, providing stems and material linked to the new track.
Earliet this week we announced that Wumpscut will issue two limited vinyl editions on 3 April 2026: a light blue LP reissue of the 2005 studio album “Evoke – Provoke” and the new remix double album “Homicide Bajazzo.” Both Wumpscut titles are pressed on 180-gram vinyl in editions of 300 copies.
About :Wumpscut:
Wumpscut is a German electro-industrial project founded in May 1991 by Bavarian DJ Rudolf “Rudy” Ratzinger, originally based around club work in southern Germany and later associated with Munich and the wider Bavarian scene.
Ratzinger’s early demo “Defcon” (1991) led into the first full-length “Music for a Slaughtering Tribe” in 1993, followed by “Bunkertor 7” in 1995 and “Embryodead” in 1997.
From the mid-1990s onward, he released much of his work through his own label Beton Kopf Media, while Metropolis Records handled several key titles for the US market. Albums such as “Boeses Junges Fleisch” (1999), “Wreath of Barbs” (2001), “Bone Peeler” (2004) and “Evoke” (2005) continued this pattern of parallel European and US editions in CD and vinyl formats.
Later releases extended the catalogue through “Cannibal Anthem” (2006), “Body Census” (2007), “Schädling” (2008), “Fuckit” (2009), “Siamese” (2010), “Schrekk & Grauss” (2011), “Women and Satan First” (2012) and “Madman Szpital” (2013), many of them accompanied by limited box sets and DJ-oriented companion discs.
After the 2014–2015 albums “Bulwark Bazooka” and “BlutSpukerTavern” and the 2016 studio album “Wüterich,” Ratzinger briefly announced an end to new production. But he returned with “Fledermavs 303” in 2021 and a run of EPs and albums including “For Those About To Starve” (2022), “Giftkeks”/”Poison Cookie” (2023), “Schlossgheist” (2024) and “Chew Chew Chew” (2025), many of which were made available via Bandcamp alongside limited physical editions.
And now there is the new album “Zuckerpuppe”.
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