“Feuer frei!” by Rammstein

"Feuer frei!" is Rammstein at full artillery, a track from their third album, Mutter (2001), later pulled out as its fifth single. The title is German military shorthand for opening fire, and the song follows orders: Richard Z. Kruspe and Paul Landers lay down riffs like a firing line, Christoph Schneider and Oliver Riedel march them forward, Christian Lorenz scatters cold industrial keyboards over the top, and Till Lindemann barks the command in that rumbling voice. All six members share the writing credit, and Jacob Hellner produced it with the band.

It became one of their best-known songs and turned up in the film xXx and an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, yet it's missing from the Made in Germany 1995–2011 hits collection, and nobody has ever said why.

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