Artist: RAMMSTEIN
Album: LIVE AUS BERLIN (DVD)

Release date: 2011
Media type: DVD

On 1998's LIVE AUS BERLIN, Germany's Rammstein works an extremely vocal hometown crowd into quite a frenzy. The band specializes in brutal, chant-along bombast that's designed to leave people sweaty from fist pumping and hoarse from shouting. Recalling the early days of such bands as Killing Joke and Laibach, Rammstein layers overloaded guitars and throaty Teutonic snarls over a massive, machine-like rhythm section guaranteed to thwart all attempts at crowd control.

The bulk of the material is drawn from Rammstein's first album, HERZELEID, though six tracks are drawn from the band's U.S. debut, SEHNSUCHT. The b-side "Wilder Wein" is also unearthed. Standouts include the Wagnerian swell of "Du Riechst So Gut," a vicious track memorializing a 1988 disaster at Rammstein Air Force Base that has served as the band's theme song. "Bestrafe Mich," "Bnck Dich," and "Wollt Ihr das Bett in Flammen Sehen" are especially brutal. Topping it all, there's the (unintentionally?) chilling sound-spectacle of several thousand kids singing along to the chorus of "Weisses Fleisch," a first-person narrative from the point of a rapist.

TRACKLIST DVD:

1  Spiel Mit Mir   
2  Herzeleid   
3  Bestrafe Mich   
4  Weisses Fleisch   
5  Sehnsucht
Music By – Orgasm Death Gimmicks*   
6  Asche Zu Asche   
7  Wilder Wein   
8  Klavier   
9  Heirate Mich   
10  Du Riechst So Gut   
11  Du Hast   
12  Engel   
13  Rammstein   
14  Tier
Music By – Jьrgen Engler   
15  Laichzeit   
16  Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen?   
17a  Seemann   
17b  Was Hast Du Mit Meinem Herz Getan?
Music By – Nicholas Lens
Soprano Vocals – Claron McFadden
Lyrics By – Irma Achten