I'm sorry? Rammstein says punch nazis?
They were socialists punks & goths from east germany who would regularly get in fights with reactionaries in their youth??? I genuinely did not see this coming. Maybe it would have been obvious if I spoke german but I don't and I am shocked. Genuinely expected chud behavior
They want to believe my heart is on the right
but when I look down I see
it beats to the left
Yeah, they've had good politics from the start. Shame they're horrible people.
Oh dear, what did they do
The comments go over it, but lot of SA from two of the members.
Their politics arent good either. Theyve claimed to be libs and made songs like radio.
Pretty shitty in other ways but not nazi yea - I never listened to em much but I remember liking Deutschland from a few years ago. The music video had nazi imagery which caused some controversy which I thought was odd because...the entire song was about not being able to love the concept of "germany" because of all its horrid shit - hell the nazi imagery in the video had the band being executed in a camp. Didn't strike me as an endorsement lol.
Sie woll’n mein Herz am rechten Fleck
Doch seh’ ich dann nach unten weg
Da schlägt es links!
KMFDM > Rammstein though.
For real? I never checked out KMFDM because I saw their name translated as "No mercy for the majority" and assumed they were on some "might makes right, crush the weak" fash shit.
Nope, they're very revolutionary-branded
Nah, they're extremely not like that, although they did get a bad rap because one of the Columbine guys was a fan.
I dont know why, but for a while as a kid, I was convinced it stood for “Kill mother-fucking Depeche Mode” someone probably told me this and I didn’t understand it was a joke.
Eisbrecher and OOMPH!! too. No idea about their background though.
Woah, what an odd coincidence for me. I haven't listened to Rammstein for literally years (I was never much of a fan or anything, just liked some of the stuff they did and knew they were cool as far as politics). But just last night I happened to think of one of their songs and decided to loop it a few times for nostalgia's sake. Crazy. Anyway, as everyone has said, they are pretty decent politically, but I had no idea there was any SA stuff, so that's a major disappointment but not totally surprising. The song that I happened to remember and that made me want to listen to them for the first time in years was "Amerika." It goes even harder with the video.
https://cal1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
edit in case the above youtube frontend isn't working, here's another: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
English-translated lyrics:
I only knew them at all because a Hexbear or federated user told me about Amerika — that song definitely has a good point. Shame to hear that about the creator.
This thread somehow got me thinking of Moscow Death Brigade and now I feel compelled to post this here: https://youtu.be/d4eqettF5qI
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
May I introduce you to the more radical and based Atari Teenage Riot?
Less of an introduction and more of a long awaited reunion
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Don't get too excited cuz the members of Rammstein had some allegations not that long ago about sexual stuff. But yes Rammstein has never been a Nazi band. The song "Links" which means "Left" is kind of about this. Tons of their songs and imagery and music videos and concert stuff also are like...gay sadomasochism stuff. Watch the music video for Mein Teil (which means "my part" which is slang for "my dick") or the music video for Sonne or watch some of their concert footage where they have like a giant dick that they use to spray faux jizz all over the audience. They're not like Nazi Germans they're like the weirdo sex Germans.
As a card-carrying weirdo sex German, i object to being compared to Rammstein.
But yes, it shouldn't surprise anybody that people who spent their youth as punks and goths in East Germany regularly got into fights with nazi skins, the fash basically tried to conquer that place immediately after the DDR fell and that has always included lots of street violence. Basically every leftist space there has been won by punching nazis in the face until they mostly gave up on the area, and after more than 30 years of fascist organizing and downright settlement policies, and tons of leftist or just not-fascist people moving away from dying towns ravaged by neoliberal shock treatment, there aren't many of these places left.
I have never considered how this might be the case. Is there anything written about it? Sounds like an interesting rabbit hole if there's ever been a deliberate effort and any similarities to like west bank shit or whatever.
I actually saw rammstein in concert (part of the family values tour) and while haven't seen many live shows, it was easily the most unforgettable show I've ever seen anybody put on.
I still remember:
I'll never forget 'em
Same. Was first big concert. I thought he was peeing at first and then my buddy was like no and I was like ohhhhhh
Great time.