junkyardangel

Contrived...maybe the wrong word. Here's the deal. And you have to understand I ate, darnk and breathed all things German for several years. At the risk of sweping generalities, ehre's my take: I love and respect them for a lot of things, but one thing they are not, for the most part (and its my heritage too, along with Swedish) is overly soulful. They/we are great at practicing and analyzing and engineering things. A Porsche is a beautiful thing. But aren't especially good, at effortless, natural soulfulness. We want to study it and take it apart and try and quantify it instead of letting it just flow....

So, that's my thing. But regardless, if you dig 'em, that's cool and that's all that matters.

As far as Rammstein goes...yea...same deal...German metal. Seems such an overly obvious thing. Expected. No surprises. I suppose it is their best, most natural form of expression... completely true and authentic...but somethng doesn't work for me and the problem is probably just that I'm an old fart now...!!!