“Ich will” by Rammstein

"Ich will" ("I Want") is Rammstein making demands at full volume, a track off Mutter, their third album, released in 2001 and credited to all six members. Jacob Hellner produced it with the band and Stefan Glaumann mixed, and the sound is pure Neue Deutsche Härte machinery: Richard Z. Kruspe and Paul Landers chopping riffs in tight unison, Christoph Schneider and Oliver Riedel stamping underneath, Christian Lorenz's keyboards buzzing overhead, and Till Lindemann barking the title like a drill sergeant.

The video stages a bank robbery with the band in stockings, except for Flake, who wears an enormous bomb strapped to his chest instead, and cuts back and forth to the aftermath as police and press gather. The German single threw in a curveball too: a live take on the Ramones' "Pet Sematary" with Flake singing.

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