Rammstein

Since their formation in 1994, Rammstein have grown to become the power house of German industrial metal. Unfortunately for me, I hadn’t heard any of their music until once, round my friend Alex’s, we were playing Call Of Duty and he suggested that we listen to some music whilst killing the Nazis that were heartlessly attacking our positions. I was immediately drawn in by the aggressive and dark sound this band, that I had never come across before, was making.

After finding out what the band was called I went on a search to find one of their albums. The favourite song that I’d heard whilst playing Xbox (and the one that most increased my Nazi killing abilities) was Ich Will, so I ended up getting their 2001 album Mutter, a good choice. Mutter quite honestly one of the best heavy metal Albums I’ve heard in a long, long time. The killer songs and the combination of traditional metal instruments, guitars and drums, along with synthesisers give this album, and indeed Rammstein in general, a sound that makes it stand out from a lot of other metal out there today.

One of the big things that Rammstein have going for them is their choice to sing in German. Not only because German is quire honestly one of the most brutal sounding languages – The rolling “R” and throaty tones are so well suited to heavy metal that you’d think it’d have been designed for the purpose – but I also respect that they don’t want to sing in English, even if it would widen their audience, they’re going to write their songs in German, because it’s their language.