Rammstein video celebrated spectacular premiere - the complete clip can now be seen online

With the first video "Germany" of the new album, Rammstein had already caused a lot of stir, now the new song has also had its spectacular premiere.

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Update from April 26, 2019: Just three weeks before the release of the new album, the rock band Rammstein has now officially released the video for the new single "Radio". The clip is in black and white and focuses on the role of the eponymous receiving device, which also enabled the band members as citizens of the GDR to escape from everyday life. The rockers refer to the restricted life and the difficult information gathering, compose for example: "We were not allowed to belong / Nothing to see, speak or hear / Every song was forbidden / So dangerous foreign notes". The entire presentation of song and clip can also be understood in homage to the electro pop band Kraftwerk.

Rammstein: New single "Radio" celebrates its premiere on the house wall

Update from April 25, 2019 : The musicians of Rammstein have presented the second song of their new album with another spectacular action. At a Berlin crossroads, the band, celebrated worldwide for their brute rock, had the video "Radio" streamed onto a house wall in Berlin Mitte and broadcast the song at the same time by the rbb broadcaster radioeins. Around 1000 fans came to the intersection, the police secured everything, according to rbb reporter Henrik Barth. After the five-minute campaign, the fans celebrated the song.

With the video, Rammstein honors another globally successful German band with black and white recordings: video sequences and parts of the music can also be seen as a tribute to Kraftwerk's "radioactivity" from 1975. The text of the surprisingly pop Rammstein song portrays memories of a time when listening to the radio at night was an act of freedom. The Rammstein members are socialized in the GDR.

Numerous people watch the video for the song "Radio" by the band Rammstein on the corner of Torstrasse and Prenzlauer Allee.

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With the first video "Germany" of the new album, Rammstein caused a lot of stir at the end of March. There was ongoing criticism, especially because of the trailer. Four band musicians can be seen in it for a good 30 seconds, with their clothes reminiscent of concentration camp prisoners.

Rammstein video with concentration camp scenes: A lot of encouragement online - and a violent reproach

Update from March 28th, 7:49 pm: Krass , krasser , Rammstein: The video for Rammstein's new single "Deutschland" has a lot of fun. The nine-minute clip, produced in Hollywood blockbuster fashion, fascinates or shocks - a matter of opinion - with the martial imagery of sweat, blood, tears, shouting, lots of fire and dramatic explosions typical of Rammstein.

But even violent scenes are omnipresent: Singer Till Lindemann (trademark: kajalierte Augen) gives the street fighter right away, who boxes his livelihood with brass knuckles on his hands, takes on the role of a Stasi official - or should it even be a Honecker - and practices the supper in a dark cowl in gluttony, at a table covered with meat. In between, a colored Amazon appears again and again, played by Ruby Commey, whose styling immediately evokes Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj. Heavy gold chains, bright red lips and metal panties with XL cartridge belts and German shepherds. The clergy, medieval crusades, gang crime, the burning of books in the Second World War and cyber utopias are also staged.

However, the most polarizing scenes are likely to be those in which the six band members stand on the gallows as Jewish concentration camp inmates in striped convict clothes. The Jewish star and the swastika appear again and again. Likewise Nazi officers who murder and have to look into the gun barrel a few seconds later and who are finally executed by the Jews. A reversal of the German perpetrator-victim motif and thus probably also a distancing of Rammstein from right ideas.

The whole melange, which touches the cornerstones of German history, ends in a kind of apocalypse. Above all, Lindemann's grater voice sounds: " Germany, my heart in flames, wants to love and condemn you ". Just one hour after its YouTube premiere, “Germany” already had over 450,000 views. The more than 2,500 comments left on Instagram read, according to a first quick check, mostly positive. Many users outbid themselves with superlatives from “ bombastic ” to “ gigantic ”. Charlotte Knobloch , ex-president of the Central Council of Jews, sees it completely differently: “ With this video the band crossed a line. How Rammstein misuses the suffering and murder of millions for entertainment purposes is frivolous and repulsive ”.

Update of March 28, 2019, 2:08 p.m .: The release of the approximately 35-second clip caused a stir in advance. It is still not clear what exactly will be shown in the band Rammstein's new music video. At 6 p.m. it will be uploaded to the band's official YouTube account.

Rammstein: Band shocks with video for single in a concentration camp look - "form of mortification"

Munich - The band Rammstein likes to provoke. The musicians around singer Till Lindemann have been shocking the music world with their lyrics for years, and their videos are not without controversy. But with their latest clip, Rammstein may have gone too far, at least that's how many historians and politicians see it.

Rammstein: Video clip in the concentration camp prisoner style

On Tuesday, the band released a 35-second clip, which should probably advertise the new single "Germany". Rammstein titled the video with Latin numerals - the date "03/28/2019". Probably an allusion to the release date of the actual music video for “Germany”.

In the clip you can see the four musicians standing on the gallows in a striped concentration camp uniform. Slowly the camera moves over the faces of the men staring forward with a noose around their neck. Blood trickles from Till Lindemann's temple, one of the others apparently is wearing a Jewish star. In the end, the single title "Germany" appears in a fracture-like font.

The video has already been clicked on YouTube over 730,000 times, and up to now 1.4 million users have seen it on Facebook (as of March 27). The reactions are quite divided. While the hard core of Rammstein fans the clip with contributions such as "My anticipation with goosebumps increases immeasurably" or "I'm so happy, I can not stand it", others can not share the enthusiasm.

Rammstein Shocks with Concentration Camp Video: "A Form of Vandalization"

Historians and politicians in particular would be snubbed by the clip, so bild.de. Charlotte Knobloch, ex-president of the Central Council of Jews, told the newspaper: “With this video the band crossed a line. How Rammstein misuses the suffering and murder of millions for entertainment purposes is frivolous and repulsive. ”The Jewish historian Michael Wolffsohn even goes one step further and describes the KZ-Clip as a“ form of desecration ”.

Only FDP external expert Alexander Graf Lambsdorff strikes a gentler tone. “The Shoa is not suitable as an advertisement. No matter what. You have to wait and see if this is an excerpt with which Rammstein makes a contribution to dealing with the Holocaust, ”he says to the picture .

Video in concentration camp clothing: Clip by Rammstein also shocked the fans

But not only various experts are shocked by Rammstein's music clip, some fans also think that the band is going too far. "Sensitive topic", "Much too provocative" or "Wow, that is annoying", users comment on Facebook and Instagram.

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Already in 1998, Rammstein caused a sensation with the video for “Stripped”. This is because pictures from the propaganda film "Olympia" by Leni Riefenstahl can be seen. Singer Till Lindemann then replied to the question of whether he would allow such a film again in an interview: “No, because I am tired of hearing that we are a real band. That was the point at which I said to myself: We crossed a line. ”However, at the request of the newspaper, none of the band members wanted to comment on the latest video.

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