In 16 A. The video also contains brief nods to cosmonauts, the Hindenburg, and sausage pulled, as it were, from a human abdomen. This is what Rammstein does. It transforms hideous or troubling imagery into cathartic camp. He sings in German, usually about carnal pleasures or the sweet release of death.
Rammstein was eventually swept up in the nu-metal craze of the late nineties, and in was invited to join the first Family Values Tour, a metal and hip-hop revue created and curated by the band Korn. Rammstein is still more likely to scoff at or ridicule macho posturing. It is very hard to imagine the members of Limp Bizkit simulating anal sex onstage. Musically, Rammstein has never been particularly preoccupied with reinvention, but now the band is metabolizing its earliest influences in ways that veer even farther from the battering rage of nu metal.
The new songs feel especially indebted to the German electronic duo Kraftwerk , who, beginning in the nineteen-seventies, wrote stylized, repetitive, experimental pop songs that relied heavily on synthesizers. These songs are as energizing as they are titillating.
Tickets sold out within thirty minutes. Sometimes he and the guitarists Richard Kruspe and Paul Landers wear flamethrowing masks and launch fireballs at one another; Lorenz might climb off a keyboard treadmill and take a flaming shower in a metal bathtub.
If Lindemann puts on a giant pair of angel wings, trust that they, too, will soon burst into flames. It is easy to place Rammstein in a lineage of theatrical rock bands that have incorporated elements of indecency, horror, sadomasochism, or self-mutilation into their live performances: Kiss, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Gwar, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Insane Clown Posse. In , Jim Morrison was arrested for exposing himself during a concert in Miami.
