Lingua Ignota "All Bitches Die" (2017)

original cover

All Bitches Die

release date: Jun 7, 2017

format: digital (4 x File, FLAC)

[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,98]

producer: Kristin Hayter

label: selvudgivet - nationality: USA

Track highlights: 1. "Woe to All (On the Day of My Wrath)" - 2. "All Bitches Die (Bitches All Die Here)"

2nd studio album by American Lingua Ignota [meaning 'unknown language'], as the moniker of Kristin Hayter. She debuted on bandcamp with the album Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him in Feb. 2017 and only five months later she's then ready with this album, which was also released via her bandcamp-profile, but this time to overwhelming international interest. She soon became associated with the record label Profound Lore, who re-issued this one with a new cover in 2018. The album consists of only four compositions of varying length from 5½ to 15 minutes and with a total running time of just over 42 minutes.

Musically speaking, it's based on a mixture of dark - or rather: absolute black noise metal with elements from classical music and a clear inspiration from industrial rock. Hayter's own life story as a victim in a long violent relationship lays a great foundation for her musical and lyrical universe. She is a classically trained musician and is credited the entire performance alone as songwriter, composer, sound engineer, producer, photographer, instrumentalist, and vocalist. Her expression balances on the extremely brutal, and she experiments with the use of pure noise, just as the use of her vocal reflects a similar approach. She possesses an excellent singing voice, which can be soft, finely tuned and sometimes terrifyingly distorted as bestial death screams and disturbing throat singing.

There is no doubt that Hayter is an original. The queen of darkness, Diamanda Galás, is closest as an inspiration and related artist, but Hayter is not only concerned with performance and singing, as a primary instrument. The compositions have both qualities from ambient and classical compositions, which make it both neoclassical works and experimental noise rock.

All Bitches Die is a fierce acquaintance. You probably have to have a certain fondness for Galás or black metal to find this beautiful. To my ears it's more fascinating than ordinary black metal, death metal, or related styles, but it's also too extreme a musical expression for me to just think it's really cool.

Disturbing. Fascinating. And at the same time, too much brutality.

[ SputnikMusic 4 / 5 stars ]

2018 reissue on Profound Lore

Rammstein "Rammstein" (2019)

Rammstein
release date: May 17, 2019
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [4,02]
producer: Olsen Involtini, Rammstein
label: Universal Music - nationality: Germany

Track highlights: 1. "Deutschland" - 2. "Radio" - 3. "Zeig dich" (live) - 4. "Ausländer" - 6. "Puppe" (4,5 / 5) (live) - 8. "Diamant"

7th studio album by Rammstein - also referred to as [untitled] - released almost a full decade after Libe ist für alle da (2009). For the first time a studio release is without Swedish producer Jonas Hellner - instead Rammstein has co-produced the album with German guitarist, producer, and engineer Olsen Involtini (aka Olsen Olic), who arranged strings on Mutter (2001) and Reise, Reise (2004) and furthermore is guitarist in the American / German band Emigrate [founded by Rammstein guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe].
2011 saw the best of compilation album Made in Germany 1995-2011 featuring one new track, but other than that, the following 9 years saw Rammstein members engaged with live tours and individual projects including Till Lindemann's collaboration, Lindemann, Richard Z. Kruspe's band Emigrate, and the production on a new Rammstein album was announced on several occasions from 2013 - '17.
A decade is a long time in the music business and even longer than many bands survive together, but for Rammstein time hasn't made the band less popular - all thanks to the widely spread conception of being one of the most fascinating live acts around. Two months before the album release, Rammstein released an extended music video for the first track, "Deutschland" in cinematic proportions, and the single attracted much attention and also peaked at #1 on the national singles chart list. Also the second track, "Radio" was issued prior to the album release - peaking at #4, and following the album, the single "Ausländer" was released as the so far third and last single from the album, peaking at #2. The new album replicates their previous albums by topping the German albums chart list, which was followed in a number of other countries - especially around Europe. It has already been met by international acclaim as one of the band's absolute best studio albums, which I too find very understandable.
The album opens up with four strong tracks, and with the composition, "Puppe" - as a contender to their best song ever - the band reaches new heights of energetic brutality and they successfully explore new territories within industrial metal. On "Diamant" the angry music is exchanged for a surprisingly soft emotional brake. There are so many strong tracks here, and the best thing about it is the sense of revitalisation of a band, which many thought had peaked with Mutter some 18 years ago, but here they produce one of their best albums on which they primarily sound like Rammstein but also by adding new dimensions to its strict stylistic repertoire. They are sort of widening the genre by adding new elements to it, like a sense of humour, sentimentality, and a display of trust in own abilities.
Highly recommendable.
[ 👍allmusic.com, Kerrang!, Exclaim!, NME, Clash 4 / 5, Rolling Stone 3,5 / 5 stars ]

2019 Favourite releases: 1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Ghosteen - 2. The Cranberries In the End - 3. Rammstein Rammstein

Marilyn Manson "Antichrist Superstar" (1996)

Antichrist Superstar
release date: Oct. 8, 1996
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,32]
producer: Sean Beavan, Marilyn Manson, Dave Ogilvie, Trent Reznor
label: Interscope - nationality: USA

Track highlights: 1. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" - 2. "The Beautiful People" - 4. "Tourniquet" - 7. "Deformography" - 12. "Antichrist Superstar" - 15. "The Reflecting God" -

2nd studio album by American industrial metal band Marilyn Manson originally released by Nothing Records. Guitarist Daisy Berkowitz (aka Scott Putesky) left the band while still recording the album with bassist Twiggy Ramirez, vocalist Marilyn Manson, additional musicians Danny Lohner and Robin Finck, as well as both co-producers Sean Beavan and Trent Reznor taking over the remaining guitar recordings.
Stylistically, the album marks a shift to a harder, simpler and in many ways more traditional hard rock style with loans from punk rock, gothic rock and metal rock. The band has left, what I find a murky, style and also the many samples and instead focused on a clearer industrial form, which has been praised by many. The two single releases (tracks #2 and #4) were both promoted with (acclaimed) music videos directed by Canadian-Italian director Floria Sigismondi. The album is regarded as the band's breakthrough album, and it was nominated and awarded several prizes. It's also the so far only Marilyn Manson album to be enlisted in "1001 Album You Must Hear Before You Die."
The album is not a favourite of mine but I do acknowledge the musical qualities of the album, although, I find it hard to listen to in its entirety. Tracks #1, #2 and #4 are the clearly best tracks here, and they all have a distinct punk rock influence, whereas several other tracks are more metal rock-founded, and therefore, from my perspective, less interesting; however, as a whole, I find it quite amusing / disturbing and clearly the band's best effort.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Spin 4 / 5, Rolling Stone 3,5 / 5 stars ]

Marilyn Manson "Smells Like Children" (1995) (ep)

Smells Like Children, ep
release date: Oct. 24, 1995
format: digital
[album rate: 2 / 5] [2,16]
producer: Trent Reznor
label: Nothing Records - nationality: USA

Track highlights: 6. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" - 9. "I Put a Spell on You"

Studio ep by the band Marilyn Manson, which by now also consists of bassist Twiggy Ramirez (aka Jeordie Osbourne White) and new drummer Ginger Fish (aka Kenneth Robert Wilson). The album is filed and issued as an ep, although, it enlists 16 tracks and rightfully consists of 10 ordinary tracks, but with a playing time at above 54 mins, it seems like a rather long ep.
Stylistically, it's very much in the same ball game as the debut album. And the only reason I wanted to listen to this in the first place was because of the inclusion of 3 cover songs: The Eurythmics song "Sweet Dreams" , Screamin'Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" and the Patti Smith composition "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger", none of which come close enough to the quality of the original versions.
However, I think, this is even worse than the debut, and I can't really find any reasons for listening to the album.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]

Marilyn Manson "Portrait of an American Family" (1994)

Portrait of an American Family
release date: Jul. 19, 1994
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,32]
producer: Trent Reznor
label: Nothing / Interscope - nationality: USA

Track highlights: 5. "Cyclops" - 7. "Get Your Gunn" - 8. "Wrapped in Plastic"

Studio debut album by American metal rock band Marilyn Manson produced by Nine Inch Nails' front figure Trent Reznor and released through his newly founded label Nothing Records. At this stage Marilyn Manson was now seen as a band, although, it was initially named Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids from 1989, which included founding member Marilyn Manson [aka Brian Warner] on vocals with guitarist Daisy Berkowitz [aka Scott Putesky] and bassist Olivia Newton Bundy [aka Brian Tutunick]. From around 1990 Bundy left and was replaced by Gidget Gein [aka Brad Stewart], and from around '91 the band also included keyboardist Madonna Wayne [aka Stephen Bier] and drummer Sara Lee Lucas [aka Fred Streithorst]. The band name was shortened to Marilyn Manson in '92 when the five initiated the works on what would be this album - initially titled "The Manson Family Album", but the band was very unsatisfied with the production sound and contacted Reznor who accepted to rework the recordings at what point Gein was replaced by the band's roadie Twiggy Ramirez [aka Jeordie Osbourne White] due to Gein's heroin addiction.
Stylistically, it's industrial metal and alt. metal, which incorporates various samples on almost all tracks, and thematically, the band keeps to compositions and songs drawing its attention on the hypocrisy of American lifestyle.
The early works by Marilyn Manson nor this album has never been a personal favourite of mine. It's simply too heavy metal-based for my liking, and I reject the music like I do with albums by Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Metalica, Korn and many others who deal with heavy metal, as I never was a fan of the metal 'circus'. The only reason I ever came around this album is because of my interest in the band's later works with a stronger gothic rock tone pointing at some of the 1980s post-punk artists, and because I do like some alt. metal bands, who incorporate elements from the world of alt. rock, post rock or punk-rock, and then I really like the videos Marilyn Manson made together with Canadian-Italian director Floria Sigismondi.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 2 / 5 stars ]

Rammstein "Liebe ist für alle da" (2009)

Liebe ist für alle da
release date: Oct. 16, 2009
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,34]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Universal - nationality: Germany

Track highlights: 1. "Rammlied" - 2. "Ich tu dir weh" - 3. "Waidmanns Heil" - 4. "Haifisch" - *5. "B********" - 7. "Wiener Blut" - 8. "Pussy" - 9. "Liebe ist für alle da" - 11. "Roter Sand"
*referred to as 'Bückstabü', a nonce word made up to mean whatever the listener wants it to mean

6th studio album by Rammstein. The album is a return to form by the band. This is not outtakes but a fine collection of songs where the band seeks new ways of expressing themselves. The album hasn't got a strong single release like many of its predecessors but it's more a whole album on a higher level than heard since Mutter (2001).
The promotional single "Pussy" became the band's first single to reach #1 on the national singles chart list (also in Finland), and it was released with a controversial and sexually explicit music video directed by Swedish music director Jonas Åkerlund. Two more singles followed as #2 and lastly #4 were selected for singles releases in 2010 without attracting much of the same attention. Like the previous four albums it topped the charts in Germany, which it also did in Austria, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, and in Switzerland. In Germany alone the album sold 2 x Platinum.
A rule of German censorship made the album exclusive to purchase by adults due to an inlay picture displaying Richard Kruspe spanking a nude woman, and the album was subsequently reissued without the picture and without the track "Ich to dir weh".
Overall it's not near their two best albums but neither as poor as the last two studio releases.
[ allmusic.com, Kerrang!, NME, PopMatters 4 / 5 stars ]

Rammstein "Rosenrot" (2005)

Rosenrot
release date: Oct. 28, 2005
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,88]
producer: Jacob Hellner
label: Universal - nationality: Germany

Track highlights: 1. "Benzin" - 2. "Mann gegen Mann" - 3. "Rosenrot"

5th studio album by Rammstein and for the 5th time with Swedish producer Jacob Hellner who is credited as producer solely. It's the band's first studio release on Universal, although, it contains six tracks recorded for but omitted on the previous album Reise, Reise (2004).
The style and compositions are much alike the former album, only this one has even fever good and memorable compositions. Actually, with the material from both albums they could have made one really fine release instead of producing two lesser albums.
Not really recommended and most likely the band's least favourable album to date.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]

Rammstein "Reise, Reise" (2004)

Reise, Reise
release date: Sep. 27, 2004
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,32]
pro. by Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Track highlights: 1. "Reise, Reise" - 2. "Mein Teil" - 4. "Keine Lust" - 6. "Amerika" (4 / 5) - 7. "Moskau" - 8. "Morgenstern" - 10. "Ohne dich"
[ The making of 'Keine Lust' ]

4th studio album by Rammstein is like the two previous albums produced by the band in collaboration with Jacob Hellner, and it's the band's last studio album on Motor Music. It follows the band's so far most successful album Mutter after a 3½ years hiatus.
Reise, Reise contains the much viewed video single "Amerika", which is a great tune and with both "Keine Lust" and fine songs like "Mein Teil" and "Moskau", Rammstein has made another solid release, although, the album lacks compositions on the same level as their great Mutter, and what is more important: for the first time I find that the band doesn't deliver truly new material but in way keeps to repeating itself. The tight and confined Rammstein universe doesn't leave room for much new if the band doesn't progress. At least they may try, but the new elements are like drawn on either themselves or other metal bands. I find several traces of the American alt. metal band System of a Down, e.g. "Morgenstern", and the album really doesn't come near the strong 2001 album. It's not great, not bad, and not really unforgettable.
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone, BBC 3 / 5 stars ]

Peace, Love & Pitbulls "3" (1997)

3
release date: 1997
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,82]
producer: Sankan (aka Ulf Karl Sanken Sandqvist)
label: MVG Records - nationality: The Netherlands / Sweden

Track highlights: 1. "Black Dog Bliss" - 3. "Caveman" - 7. "Youth"

3rd and final studio album by the Thåström-project band Peace, Love & Pitbulls - here in a minimised version as Peter Puders left Joakim Thåström, Niklas Hellberg and Sanken Sandqvist to continue and eventually also end the project as a trio.
Musically, there's considerable change towards both more melodic and slower songs within an industrial rock universe.
The album is imho, clearly the bands best without really impressing. It's still not really good, although, it remains the band's best attempt. After listening to this, you might suggest that bands like Rammstein and Marilyn Manson should pay tribute to Peace, Love & Pitbulls as inspirational source, and Brian Hugh Warner (Manson) has allegedly pointed out that he for one listened to PL&P.
Peace, Love & Pitbulls disbanded after this release and Thåström restarted his solo career.
Not really recommended.

Rammstein "Links 2-3-4" (2001) (single)

Links 2-3-4, single
release date: May 14, 2001
format: digital
[single rate: 3,5 / 5]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Tracklist: 1. "Links 2-3-4" (4,5 / 5) - 2. "Halleluja" (3,5 / 5) - 3. "Links 2-3-4 (Clawfinger Geradeaus Remix)" (2,5 / 5) - 4. "Links 2-3-4 (Westbam Technoelectro Mix)" (2,5 / 5) - 5. "Links 2-3-4 (Westbam Hard Rock Café Bonus Mix)" (2,5 / 5)

Single release by Rammstein from the album Mutter.

Rammstein "Mutter" (2001)

Mutter
release date: Apr. 2, 2001
format: cd
[album rate; 4 / 5] [3,92]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Track highlights: 1. "Mein Herz brennt" (5 / 5) - 2. "Links 2-3-4" (4,5 / 5) - 3. "Sonne" (4,5 / 5) - 4. "Ich will" - 5. "Feuer frei!" - 6. "Mutter" (4,5 / 5) - 7. "Spieluhr" - 9. "Rein raus"

3rd studio album by Rammstein who continues to work with Swedish producer Jacob Hellner. He has been with the band from the beginning i.e. since 1995.
Compared to the previous album Sehnsucht (1997) the style remains the same. It's a collection of almost brutal energy and with the usual one or two slow songs - the title track and "Nebel" (#11) to balance the high tempo. The recipe worked on the '97 album, so why not repeat the formula with a bunch of new songs, you may ask, and the end result is that the band succeeds like never before.
Mutter is stronger than any of their previous albums, and in hindsight it's also the band's best album ever. It contains several (blasting) great compositions (the first three + the title track).
The album produced several singles - "Sonne" was the first and only to precede the album release, and it was followed by #2, #4, #6 and #5 in that order, and with a total of five single releases. The first single peaked at number #2 on the national singles chart list, and the remainders failed to enter top 10. Nationally, the album topped the charts, which it also did in Austria and in Switzerland, and it was the band's first to sell double platinum (+600.000 copies) in Germany.
The track "Links 2-3-4" is the band's answer to critics accusing it for right-wing and fascist sympathy. In the chorus line it says: "My heart beats to the left, 2-3-4" implying a political stand on the left with supposed allusions to a revolutionary Bertolt Brecht song.
Highly recommended.
[ allmusic.com, Blender 3 / 5, Rolling Stone 3,5 / 5 stars ]

2001 Favourite releases: 1. Björk Vespertine - 2. Nathalie Merchant Motherland - 3. Rammstein Mutter

Peace, Love & Pitbulls "Red Sonic Underwear" (1994)

Red Sonic Underwear
release date: 1994
format: digital
[album rate: 2 / 5] [2,18]
producer: Peace, Love & Pitbulls
label: MVG Records - nationality: The Netherlands / Sweden

Track highlights: 1. "Itch"
[ full album ]

2nd studio album by the Thåström-led Swedish/Dutch band Peace, Love & Pitbulls. Founding member Peter Lööf left the band in '93 and was subsequently replaced by Peter Puders.
Stylistically, the band continues on the same path of industrial metal and musically, there's even less interesting bits on this compared to the likewise mediocre debut.
In 1995 Peter Puders left the band again, and PL&P would continue for another two years as a trio.
Not recommended.

Rammstein "Stripped" (single) (1998)

Stripped, single
release date: Jul. 27, 1998
format: cd
[single rate: 3 / 5] [3,15]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Tracklist: 1. "Stripped" (3 / 5) - 2. "Stripped (Psilonaut Mix by Johan Edlund - Tiamat)" (2,5 / 5) - 3. "Stripped (Heavy Mental Mix by Charlie Clouser)" (3 / 5) - 4. "Stripped (Tribute to Düsseldorf Mix by Charlie Clouser)" (2,5 / 5) - 5. "Stripped (FKK Mix by Günter Schulz - KMFDM)" (2,5 / 5)

Single release by Rammstein, which had no official album release except from being part of the Depeche Mode compilation tribute album For the Masses (1998) - it may, however, also be found as a "hidden track" on certain German reissues of Rammstein's second album Sehnsucht (1997). The original song is featured on the Depeche Mode album Black Celebration from 1986.
I don't find this cover particularly successful - not that it's bad, but it's more of a peculiarity to listen to Till Lindemann's English and the other remixes of the track are really not that fine. The official video was one of a few points that had critics link Rammstein with neo-nazism as the video-footage is from Third Reich director Leni Riefenstahl's film "Olympia" from 1938. All suggestions to the band's sympathy for the political far right have been officially denied, although, the band members also have declared their admiration for Riefenstahl's style.
[ "Rammstein - Stripped (Official Making Of)" music video ]

Rammstein "Das Modell" (1997), single

Das Modell, single
release date: Nov. 23, 1997
format: cd
[single rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,58]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Tracklist: 1. "Das Modell" - 2. "Kokain" (3,5 / 5) - 3. "Alter Mann (Special Version)" (3 / 5)

Single release by Rammstein is not from an album release. The title track is a cover of the perhaps most well-known single by Kraftwerk originally released in 1978.
This is a rather fine cover where Rammstein doesn't try hard to copy the original but pretty much make it their own industrial metal track only keeping the famous Kraftwerk keyboard chorus intact. The second track is a new Rammstein composition which is rather original, and the last is officially an alternate version of the track from Sehnsucht, although I find them identical.

Peace, Love & Pitbulls "Peace, Love and Pitbulls" (1992)

Peace, Love and Pitbulls [debut]
release date: 1992
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,38]
producer: Thåström and Cybersank (aka Sanken Sandqvist)
label: MVG Records - nationality: The Netherlands / Sweden

Track highlights: 1. "(I'm The) Radio King-Kong" - 2. "Do the Monkey (Hitch-Hike to Mars)"

Studio album debut by Swedish/Dutch band Peace, Love & Pitbulls - a project-band formed by Joakim Thåström on lead vocals and sampling, Peter Lööf on rap and backing vocals, Rikard Sporrong on guitar and with Niklas Hellberg on sampling and programming. The album is released by the MNW sublabel MVG Records, and the main album producers are Thåstróm and Cybersank, but also band member Niklas Hellberg and The Pittbulls are credited for producing on three of the album's twelve tracks. Both band and album was received as a Thåström project-band, although, it officially was a band formed in Amsterdam in '92.
Musically, the band primarily engages in industrial metal, and the music is allegedly inspired by Einstürzende Neubauten and Swedish metal band Entombed.
I recall, coming across the album in the early 90s and thinking of it as a long shot from what I associated with Thåström. He had taken on a much more aggressive alt. rock and industrial rock style on his first two solo albums, but this is a quite remarkable turn in a new direction.
I never liked this much, but the band is said to have inspired Marilyn Manson in shaping their initial style. To me, this only serves to document the stylistic changes Thåström went through after having left Imperiet behind and for the first time in two decades was free to go in whatever musical direction he wanted, and with the move to Amsterdam, he obviously wanted to make a clean start.
Not recommended.

Rammstein "Sehnsucht" (1997)

Sehnsucht
release date: Aug. 22, 1997
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,46]
producer Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Track highlights: 1. "Sehnsucht" (4 / 5) - 2. "Engel" (feat. Bobo) (4 / 5) - 3. "Tier" - 5. "Du hast" (5 / 5) - 6. "Bück dich" - 9. "Alter Mann" - 10. "Eifersucht" - 11. "Küss Mich (Fellfrosch)"

2nd studio album by Rammstein released two years after the debut from '95 is produced in collaboration with Swedish producer Jacob Hellner who was also engaged on the debut.
The album reveals a step forward in more than one aspect as it's first and foremost a better produced collection of songs that also show a progression in terms of compositional skills with several strong individually sounding tracks.
Two singles were released prior to the album as "Engel" and then "Du hast" were cleverly hand-picked to promote the new album with the former peaking at number #3 on the German singles chart list and later "Du hast" followed closely by reaching number #4 on the same list - but the track basically became the band's internationally so far most renowned single.
Sehnsucht is a fine step forward from an interesting but also slightly mediocre debut. Here the band has tightened up the compositions and also shaped them as both simpler yet more detailed by a clearer differentiation from track to track. It's industrial metal in the way only a German band can play. "Du hast" is probably the strongest track here but several others are great - especially the first half of the album is worth the lot and makes the album a much stronger and more favourable listen than the '95 debut album.
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone 4 / 5 stars ]

     

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Rammstein "Du hast" (1997), single

Du hast, single
release date: Jul. 21, 1997
format: cd
[single rate: 4 / 5] [3,78]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Tracklist: 1. "Du hast (Single Version)" (5 / 5) - 2. "Bück dich (Album Version)" (3,5 / 5) - 3. "Du hast (Remix by Jacob Hellner)" - 4. "Du hast (Remix by Clawfinger)"

Single release by Rammstein and the second single issue prior to the release of the forthcoming second album Sehnsucht to be released the following month. The title track seems the same as on the album, which also goes for the second track, whereas the last two remixes offers new versions. The first and best remix by producer Jacob Hellner is an electronic big beat (The Prodigy-like) version of the single, and the last Clawfinger remix is an alt. metal hard rock version, which is a rather inferior version; however, the original version is a truly fabulous track.

Rammstein "Engel (Fan-Edition)" (1997) (single)

Engel (Fan-Edition), single
release date: May 23, 1997
format: cd
[single rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,62]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Tracklist: 1. "Engel (Extended Version)" (4 / 5) - 2. "Feuerräder (Live Demo Version 1994)" - 3. "Wilder Wein (Demo Version 1994)" (3,5 / 5) - 4. "Rammstein (Eskimos & Egypt Instrumental)"

Single release by Rammstein taken from the forthcoming second album Sehnsucht. It's a variation from the first issue of Engel and offers an extended version of the album track (it's 12 seconds longer). The single also contains two demo versions and "Rammstein (Eskimos & Egypt Instrumental)", which is also included on the standard single version of Engel.

Rammstein "Engel" (1997) (single)

Engel, single
release date: Apr. 1, 1997
format: cd
[single rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,68]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Tracklist: 1. "Engel" (4 / 5) - 2. "Sehnsucht" (4 / 5) - 3. "Rammstein (Eskimos & Egypt Radio Edit)" - 4. "Rammstein (Eskimos & Egypt Instrumental)" - 5. "Rammstein (Original)"

Single release by Rammstein taken from the forthcoming second album Sehnsucht. It contains two strong single tracks from the new album and an additional three versions of the album track Rammstein from the debut Herzeleid (1995) which seems like mere fillers.

Rammstein "Seemann" (1996) (single)

Seemann, single
release date: Jan. 2, 1996
format: cd
[single rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,56]
producer: Jacob Hellner, Carl-Michael Herlöffson
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany

Track highlights: 1. "Seemann" - 2. "Der Meister" - 3. "Rammstein in the House (Timewriter Rmx)"

Single release taken from the debut album Herzeleid by Rammstein.