Song Debate: Defend your favorite band or artist!

Now, the title track of Oomph!'s 1998 album, "Unrein", is an especially fine example of Oomph! reaching the peak maturity of the heavy-metal oriented sound that dominated their early records. It perfectly illustrates the oscillating dark, atmospheric and melodious down-beat verses crashing violently into anxious, heavy screams of aggression that has defined an entire generation of European metal. This sound, that they had invented in their second album, the 1992 "Sperm", has been labeled "Neue Deutsche Harte", or "New German Hardness". Rammstein is unarguably their most successful successor, who roughly took Oomph!'s sound and fused it with the marching, industrial frighteningness of "Laibach" to produce what's called "Tanz-Metal". But without getting too off track into obscure music history, this track, 'Unrein', paints a dark image of anxiety and anger, using layers of textured synthetic industrial sounds, low-murmering choir and classical instruments, only to be slowly hammered into a fit of angry confusion and conflict by a wall of gritty, distorted guitars and clean-screaming vocals. Oomph! - Unrein (Impure) Album: Unrein Year: 1998 http://www.youtube.com... English translation of lyrics: --------------------------------------------- Don't come closer! - impure - impure Don't come closer! - impure - impure I'll touch you, bewet you Chase you with nightmares Until you undercool I'll stain you, taint you Infect you with misery Until don't feel anymore! Don't touch me! Don't touch me! Don't come closer! - impure - impure Don't come closer! - impure - impure I'll seduce you, use you Stain you with dregs Until you loose yourself I'll daub you, stain you Contaminate you Until you don't feel anymore Don't touch me! Don't touch me! Give me the answer - Give me the answer! You want the answer? You don't know me! You thought you had power You touch me But you don't concern me anymore! Give me the answer - Give me the answer! You want the answer? You don't get me! You thought you had power You thought you had power Give me the hope that I loose you Give me the hope since otherweise I'll freeze ------------------------------------------------------------ Interpretation: This is a song, to me, that expresses a person in deep personal conflict between what they want to be true or what they've been told is true, and their own intuition and inner recognition that it isn't so. Its a violent dissonance that threatens to tear this person asunder under its weight. The thing identified as "Unrein" (Impure) is not just contrary or incongruent with what they are expected or want to believe, but radically opposed as if some sort of tempting devil (see, "I'll seduce you", "contaminate you", among many other lines during the chorus that represent the impure thing) Given the context of the rest of the album, it seems very likely that what's being described is a very religiously raised person suffering a tremendous amount of grief and guilt in face of losing their faith, what they have been raised to be considered the devil trying to tempt you. You can feel this person's inner-torment so vividly when the lines "gib mir die hoffnung da" ich dich verliere! (Give me the hope that I can lose you!)" are howled by Dero (the vocalist), it gives you chills down your spine!