The Ice Age Meets Rammstein

you may have already found the answer. The song is 'Tier' from 'Sehnsucht.' If you find out you like more Rammstein than this one song, you also might like Joachim Witt (stay away from his earlier work, unless you like 80's German pop, but don't get that confused with the album 'Pop,' which is great - especially the US release with the new song 'Zeit Zu Gehen' - though lighter than the Bayreuth trilogy), Eisbrecher, Megaherz (father of Eisbrecher), Oomph!, In Extremo (medieval, bagpipes), E Nomine (dark/light, operatic, some Latin lyrics, 'Finsternis' is about horror movies and is beautiful and menacing at the same time), Eisheilig, Unheilig, Eisenherz, KMFDM, Stahlhammer, Letzte Instanz, and Laibach.

check Herzeleid.com, where they have them side by side with translations. Warning: lyrics could put you off them (if you don't already know German), but keep in mind that what they sing about is just a story, a situation, not stuff they actually have ever done or want to do. Just like movies or books don't have to be autobiographical. People repeatedly fail to see the difference. I'd suggest you listen to the songs a number of times first, so you get to love them, before reading the translations.

though no translations. For those I use my own dictionary, an online dictionary called Beolingus, and one that helps translate entire paragraphs at Paralink. In Extremo has some lyrics posted at their own site and some others probably do too, but I haven't got to them yet.

Well, if anyone wanted to know any of this, I've got it covered. Oh, if you want to hear more of any of the above mentioned bands, check out MySpace and YouTube. I've only been able to find Rammstein here so far. Hopefully that changes over time.

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