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Video(s) of the Week – Download 2013 Headliners
In seems uncharacteristically early to announce headliners for the UK’s famed Download Festival for 2013. The event is still 10 months away and the promoters have already booked the three headliners. Based on what I have seen, I would buy a ticket already, but the hardest part would be for which day. I am not in a position to disappear for the entire three-day event; therefore picking one day would be tough. In 2013, I would do the weekend if I could because all three headliners are quality acts. So, without further dela, I will let the videos do the talking. They are in order from top down – Friday, Saturday, Sunday. This is already shaping up to be a tremendous June 2013 weekend.
Concert Review: Rammstein at DCU Center, MA-4/29/12
The day before finals week started at my school I went to see my first major heavy metal concert with only a few friends: Rammstein. I couldn’t have started off the week in a better way. The day started off with me making the drive to meet up with the others and then going to the DCU Center from there. To anyone who’s never been, it’s a pretty good venue in the city of Worcester. It was significant that I got to see them there since it is the very place that they were arrested for their performance of “Buck Dich” on June 5, 1998. The interior is that of most larger indoor venues; a floor with tiers of seating all around. Before we got inside though, we had to wait in line for hours. Luckily we were near the beginning of the line and we talked about what we hoped the night would be like. We could feel the brick walls we were sitting up against shaking from the sound check and our anticipation built. One guy we talked to worked for the DCU Center and told us that he had never seen so much fire in all the years he had been employed there.
Zee Gehrmans Are On Zee Shore!!!
In other Best Of albums news, World renowned German Industrial Metal Band Rammstein are releasing their Best Of collection as well as a disk of remixes on December 6, 2011 and it will be called Made in Germany:1995-2011. To support this release they have made a video for the unreleased song “Mein Land” and it is absolutely hilarious. Check it out. And NSFW(brief shots of some boobs 
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Video of the Week – Ich Tu Dir Weh – 6 May 11
I would like to wrap up a long week with a video from Rammstein. It’s hard to pick just one video from Rammstein, they are all so well done. Since Rammstein doesn’t sing in English (Primarily), they have stated they make up for this in videos. They tend to be quite visual experiences. This particular video represents their most recent stage set. Their shows, if you haven’t been to one, is truly a performance. Ich Tu Dir Weh is a video that is the same stage set up when I got to see them at Sonisphere 2010 in the U.K. The fire in the latter half of the video is not exaggerated for the video. They use that much pyro for one song. I also attached the lyrics to the song translated literally in English. So there may be some meaning lost in translation, but it’s probably close. Here is the video:
Here are the lyrics:
You’re only alive for me
I poke medals into your face
You are utterly devoted to me
You love me because I don’t love you
You bleed for the salvation of my soul
A little cut and you’re turned on
Your body already completely disfigured
Whatever, anything goes
I hurt you
I’m not sorry
It does you good
Listen to it scream
With you, I choose the torment
Barbed wire in the urethra
Put your flesh in salt and pus
First you die but then you’ll keep living
Bites, kicks, hard blows
Needles, pliers, dull saw
Make a wish, I won’t say no
And I’ll insert the rodents into you
I hurt you
I’m not sorry
It does you good
Listen to it scream
You are the ship, I’m the captain
Where do you want to go?
I see your face in the mirror
You love me because I don’t love you
I hurt you
I’m not sorry
It does you good
Listen to it scream
Here is someone’s home video of that Sonisphere show for the song Du Hast.
Video of the Week – Amerika – 14 April 11
The video of the week for this round is by Rammstein. Since the vast majority of metal fans do not speak German, Rammstein has had to express themselves through videos for better explanation of their music. Most of the time, their videos are explicit in proving their point. Amerika is one of the few videos (songs) by Rammstein that is in English or at least partial English.
Rammstein got their name from Ramstein Air Base where there was a horrific plane crash during an air show in 1988. Scores of people were killed as burning wreckage rained down on spectators. Rammstein is named after the base.
Now about the song. Do you think Amerika is a pot-shot at American lifestyle bleeding through and contaminating other cultures around the world? Some might think so, but I do not.
First of all, globalization is inevitable. As science and technology increases, our world inevitably shrinks. We are becoming (if not already there) connected to each other through things like the Internet, mass media, and rapid air travel. Let’s face it, it doesn’t take 80 days to travel around the world anymore. Virtually anyone, if they have the means, can go where they want to go to. Other than some very oppressed Peoples out there, the world is really at anyone’s fingertips. We are in the information age and anyone with a computer can look up whatever they want. What do most people gravitate to? America. Why not? We have blockbuster movies, Coca-Cola, fast cars, beautiful women, huge houses, and something many people do not have-freedom. America has the means to ship anything anyone wants worldwide…as the video would indicate, Coca-Cola and Wonder Bras.
What many people forget is that America is a melting pot. The world bled into America and now our molten-mix of culture is bleeding back out. I have had the privilege of traveling and living abroad and I can say first hand that when many foreigners have a chance to buy something American like Nike, they jump at the chance. Is it America forcing its culture on the rest of the world or are we just so globally connected that cross-culture blending is inevitable? Do we all live in Amerika?
Enjoy the video, you do not need to speak German to understand it. Also there is a clip of the Ramstein Air Show disaster that someone put together to Rammstein music.
Song of the day – 2 Dec 2010
I think Rammstein has made the song of the day at least once, possibly a couple of times. My iTouch must like Rammstein so today is another installment from the German 6-piece. It’s probably just a coincidence that I just spent five days in Germany too. Today’s song of the day is”
Mehr by Rammstein from the album Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
The translation for Mehr is More. It’s a song about wanting more that what I need and wanting what you have too. I got this info from a homemade video translation on Youtube. If you have time, I recommend watching any video Rammstein has made. They are truly visually stimulating and worth seeing. Have a great day! See you on Saturday for the album of the week. This time I will pick something that was released in 2010.
