How can a guy who loves Jazz Café, Loreena McKennitt, and New Age Music also be into a German metal band like Rammstein? I guess you take the boy out of The Metal Years but you can’t take The Metal Years out of the boy. Although it had been years since I was wild about Metal music, I couldn’t help but like Rammstein’s sound. It was that same industrialized German metal that I liked with Accept only this time it was more polished. I guess this time the machinery was less steam driven and more hydraulic. It had that chunka chunka aspect but they were able to weave in an electronic aspect that was missing before. The addition of keyboards gave them a wider ability whiel their execution kept it very heavy sounding.
Du Hast had made its way to the radio. It is a cool song but there are so many better ones on this album. I owe this purchase to Chicken pox. Yeah it is true. My son had chicken pox and he was miserable. I was home with him. He was probably 7 or 8 at the time. We somehow got it in our head that Rammsteini might make him feel better. So we went to the store and he waited in the car while I ran in and picked up Sehnsucht.
I don’t remember if Rammstein eased the suffering of chicken pox at all but we still continue to enjoy the music all these years later. I’ll have to ask my son if he has listened to Sehnsucht lately.
Sehnsucht
Engel
Tier
Du Hast
Eifersucht