What is STURP?
STURP is instrumental music: Electric guitar, banjo and drums. Because of the frequent use of distorted guitars one could call the genre ‘Instrumetal’.
STURP is from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
STURP is a solo-project with roots in the Dutch bands *BESCHUIT*, Godworst, Smear and cHokedown. And, although some of those bands had quite a cult following, it is quite likely that you’ve never heard of them.

About Sturp’s in 2014 released debut-album Rapid Germination the following has been written:

A really good mix of styles is poured over you
Lords of Metal

Absurd, avant-gardist and insane at the same time
Gonzo (circus)

It is almost impossible to capture all the musical impulses that come at you in words
Rockportaal

Sturp blows me away with this CD. I am absolutely very impressed.
Metal from NL

Pretty merciless. Nothing wrong with that.
Musicmaker


What does STURP mean?
Regularly the question gets asked what the word STURP actually means. Although people give their own interpretations before there’s even a chance to answer that question, the three real reasons behind STURP being STURP are:

1) it’s a short name. Short is good.
2) it wasn’t already in use by some local guys from, let’s say, Lutjebroek
3) the .nl and .com domains were available

And of course the name had to have a certain ‘quality’ that is hard to describe, call it a gut-feeling. Otherwise a medical dictionary would have suited to find an impressive name…
Then, after when was decided that STURP would become the name I found out that the term STURP also was used for the Shroud of TUrin Research Project. That project was luckily not related to sonical outbursts.

One would say that because of the link to the shroud there’s more to STURP than meets the eye. Well, that’s not the case as STURP has no religious connections, but recently something remarkable occurred. As I was making the artwork for the STURP custom printed picks, I noticed that the STURP-logo upside-down looked like it read ‘d SUS’. How close is that to Jesus! So the STURP-logo seems to have AT LEAST as much of Christ in it as the Turin shroud has. Remarkable indeed. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.