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Kerrang! 26-Feb-05 : Essential Tracks - Keine Lust

Rammstein
Keine Lust

Rammstein in fat suits! We’ve grown accustomed to Till and co pushing the limits of silliness and theatricality, but with the video to ‘Keine Lust’ they’ve outdone themselves. It all starts off in some underground car park, with the various band members – all of them as fat and doughy as Michelin Men – clumsily plugging their instruments un. Then the ferocious, ‘Beautiful People’-style riff kicks in, and Till starts headbanging like crazy, jowls and belly quivering all the while.

Thirty seconds later Flake is on the scene, racing around in a Stephen Hawking-esque wheelchair while Till sits sweating nervously in a limo, surrounded by lusty, bikini-clad lesbians. Then more oiled-up women appear brandishing flamethrowers and wearing Rammstein firemasks, before the while thing explodes in a flash of flame, female flesh and Teutonic blubber.

As ambitious as it is hilarious, this is just one more reason why Rammstein are the coolest band on Earth

© 2005 Sue Lindemann