![]() Released on April 2, 2001, the eleven-song opus is routinely cited as Rammstein's masterwork and a landmark in not just industrial metal, but metal in general. The jackets that set ablaze, the exploding babies, the hulking cum-cannons, the fire-breaking kink masks, the keyboard player being cooked in a pot by a vocalist wielding an actual flamethrower - it’s all ludicrous but it’s backed up by some of the the most muscular, undeniably catchy riffs since Tony Iommi chopped half his finger off.Īnd it’s their third album, Mutter, which consolidated this notion - you just couldn’t write them off as a novelty anymore. Born from a recently reunified Germany in 1994, the Berlin six-piece went from crafting electro-tinged metal to stadium-shagging anthems, bolstering their reputation as heavy music’s most explosive, provocative and visually striking export. Rammstein are metal’s most unlikely success. ![]()
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