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Rammstein Who influences
Here's a snippet from a review of
Rammstein ( a German band known for
setting
themselves on fire during their shows).
Now along come Germany's newest hitmakers, Rammstein, whose two
albums
to date, 1995's Herzeleid (Heartache) and last year's Sehnsucht
(Longing),
have already topped the German charts, also performing well in
Switzerland
and Austria. So, figures American recording company Slash, why
not give
the U.S. market a spin -- where's the harm? On Sehnsucht the
six-man,
led by the stern vocals of Till Lindemann, work mostly in a
pummeling metal
vein, not too far removed from their German oredecessors the
Scorpions and
Accept, but like so many other artists these days, Rammstein
favors a highly
hybridized sound. For instance, on the title song, which
opens the
album, the band peppers its hungry power chords and sledgehammer
beat with a
background muezzin wail, a nifty hip-hop shuffle during a brief
break, and
the synth riff from the Who's "Who Are You." Similarly, you
can
hear echoes of Beck, David Bowie in his late-Seventies Berlin guise,
dopey
Wax Trax industrial posturing, and Ennio Morricone during the course
of
"Tier". Elsewhere, glimmers of Jan Hammer, Falco, Giorgio
Moroder, Silver
Convention, and late-Eighties english "grebo"
rockers seep through the
metallic throb, and "Spiel Mit Mir"
cobbles together bits of Led Zep's
"Kashmir" and the Who's
"Eminence Front".