When Wagner meets Rammstein
Die neue Deutsche Härte and the German identity
Author : Jos Hermans
This is an update of a text from September 2010.
Until two weeks ago I had never heard of the "Tanzmetall"-band Rammstein. Until filmmaker Paul Verhoeven showed an excerpt from one of their noisy shows in the VPRO program Zomergasten. I immediately noticed how the loud hypnotic music was being played in a very th…
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