In the teaser, this date was designated by Roman numerals XXVIII.III.MMXIX (03/28/2019). At over nine minutes, it gives us a panorama of events and historical and mythical figures, and there are so many references and Easter eggs that fans and commentators will be poring over it for some time to come. For a band like Rammstein, who had always positioned themselves as being miles ahead of the curve, coming back with something big was important. Bath Thank you for signing up to Metal Hammer. Das neueste Musik-Video von Rammstein - schon wenige Stunden nach Veröffentlichung in den Medien heiß diskutiert... New Single / New Album: rammstein.com Video Director: Specter Berlin #Rammstein #Deutschland #duhastvielgeweint Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Watch the video for DEUTSCHLAND from Rammstein's RAMMSTEIN for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. This is just one of several science fiction elements in the video (like an abundance of lasers, because Rammstein frickin’ love lasers), but the woman appears repeatedly, and seems to be intended as the personification of Germany itself. Metal Hammer are currently celebrating 25 years of Rammstein in our new issue, which is on sale now. And while the band’s music almost always sounds triumphant, the song’s lyrics (as translated into English) aren’t purely patriotic: Germany Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. In the background we see a U-boat – a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. The name of the song, “Deutschland,” is, of course, also the name of Rammstein’s homeland. This is "Rammstein - Deutschland" by sss on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Live Streaming. This is "(1) Rammstein - Deutschland (Official Video)" by Mathias Schulz on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. On 27 March, 2019, the At over nine minutes, it gives us a panorama of events and historical and mythical figures, and there are so many references and Easter eggs that fans and commentators will be poring over it for some time to come. 1.8k votes, 1.2k comments. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. Rammstein’s Deutschland takes us on a thrilling, violent, and moving journey through German history. So young Look out for these in the video – they come up again and again – and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. DaGamba - Du Riechst So Gut (Symphony) [Rammstein Cover] Now that the entire video has been released, though, we have some context for the clip. October 18. Sign up to receive the latest news, rumors and updates from Metal Sucks, We discuss the band's new album, The Crimson Corridor, a…, Follow us online for more news, rumors and updates from Metal Sucks. Now, when most people think “Germany,” they probably do not think “black woman.” So why did the band and Berlin decide to cast a black woman in the role? Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. We got an Oxford University professor to explain it all. Drummer Mark Castillo Receives Cochlear Implant, Quits Emmure, France’s Got Talent, too: Beautiful French Girl Performs Heavy Metal Song on TV, Watch an Old Lady Rock Out to AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”. There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania. Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. All content created & copyright © 2021 Metal Sucks. ‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. All rights reserved. Let’s Talk About Rammstein’s Controversial... Video Premiere: Truth Corroded, “Of Open Eyes and... 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Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Want to love you, want to damn you, Germany The band took 10 years between albums last time, but they’re way ahead of pace now. Was it meant as a representation of Mankind’s origins in what we now know as the continent of Africa despite whatever other racial identity we might hold? Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on. This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. With a runtime that exceeds nine minutes, the video – much as the song itself – takes a route that spans German history, with not a grisly stone left unturned. Video: BTBAM Guitarist Watches Fan YouTube Covers! And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. 38.6k members in the Rammstein community. Was it meant as a hedge to offset the very complaints the video has elicited? As soon as the video premiere finished, YouTube had already counted 350, 000 views. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Broadcast your events with reliable, high-quality live streaming. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event. -Rammstein -Rammstein - Deutschland-Lyrics-Rammstein - Deutschland Lyrics And while I’m not sure its inclusion in the video was in good taste, I do think Rammstein are trying to make a complicated point which is worth exploring. EUROPA STADION TOUR WIRD ERNEUT VERSCHOBEN – INS JAHR 2022. A decade out of the game is a long time in any band's career, but the 2010s was a time when technology – and the music industry as a result – moved on at breakneck speed. My love I cannot give to you Dr Alexandra Lloyd Make social videos in an instant: use custom templates to tell the right story for your business. You will receive a verification email shortly. You could argue that they didn’t need to use such provocative imagery, but you can’t argue that they failed to make their point. © Your love is a curse and a blessing BREAKING: Joey Jordison Back in Slipknot as Percussionist! A Videoclip, directed by Specter Berlin, for the track "Deutschland", initiating the release of Rammstein's self-titled Album "Rammstein" 2019. Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Album: Rammstein | Video: Deutschland | Single: Deutschland Du hast viel geweint You have cried a lot Im Geist getrennt In the mind apart Im Herz vereint In the heart united Wir sind schon sehr lang zusammen We have been together for a very long time Dein Atem kalt Your breath is cold Das […] Screen Recorder. Visit our corporate site. Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band, formed in 1994 in Berlin. How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? It also turns several of these moments on their ear, such as this bit where the concentration camp victims appear to have gained the upper hand over their oppressors: As you may have noticed, the video also includes a black woman who is a Nazi officer. All images are © their respective owners. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners. These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media. A pre-release teaser for the clip showed members of the band re-enacting a concentration camp execution; in response, Charlotte Knobloch, former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and Holocaust survivor, said that the band’s “instrumentalisation and trivialisation of the Holocaust, as shown in the images, is irresponsible,” while Felix Klein, the German government’s commissioner for anti-Semitism, condemned the video as “a tasteless exploitation of artistic freedom” that “crosses a line.”. The Holocaust scene is just one of several throughout the video that draws from less-than-proud moments in German history: the German Crusade, the Great Plague, the Hindenburg disaster, the sometimes violent student protest movement of the 1960s, Baader-Meinhof, the Berlin wall, and so on and so forth. MetalSucks Exclusive: One Year Later, Peter Steele’s People Speak About His Life, His Music, and His Last Days. Wanna buy Kirk Hammett’s One video guitar? When Rammstein unveiled Deutschland, along with its jaw-dropping video, it was the mark of a band reasserting their territory. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day. On several occasions, the clip cuts to her face just as the band shouts “DEUTSCHLAND!”, punctuating this concept. 38.9k members in the Rammstein community.