GER100 Lecture Notes - Till Lindemann, Schlager Music, German Romanticism
16 Mar 2013
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Warriors of the world (intro is only good part) Rammstein is a german rock band most easily situated within the heavy metal genre, although the band might be more accurately identified within several of the heavy metal sub-genres discussed below, particularly that of extreme" metal. It may be understandable that germany would want to, as ross puts it, wipe the slate clean" after the second world war. Aspects of rammstein"s music, however, underscore connections to recent trends in post- unification germany towards right-wing orientated rock and extreme metal, as well as to consequent extreme attitudes towards the country"s recent past and suspicions of neo-fascist kitsch. The band has had to continually declare its non-political intentions and verbally distance itself from the right-wing rock scene, declaring in an interview with the weekly news magazine der. Spiegel last year entitled eternally justifying ourselves grinds us down" * das ewige.
