After contributing tracks to the Charred Remains and The Master Tape compilations, the band's debut release was the Cows and Beer EP.
Other members worked on side projects, including Kubinski and Egeness's Cheap Trick tribute band Chick Treat.
[6] The album features liner notes by Thurston Moore, who states, "Man, there was a point there when Die Kreuzen were the best band in the USA".
[7] In their acceptance speech, they named a handful of current artists that they thought deserved consideration: IfIHadAHiFi, Northless, the Zebras, and Zola Jesus.
Die Kreuzen scheduled shows in Green Bay and Madison, WI and Minneapolis, MN (with Negative Approach, Mudhoney and The Melvins) later on in the summer of 2013.
A book entitled Don't Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen is set for release in 2025, published by Feral House.
[1][9] In 1986, Robert Palmer of The New York Times described Die Kreuzen as "one of the new bands recasting the legacy of 70's Gothic-metal (Black Sabbath, etc.)