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Kerrang! - Best of 2004 CD and Kerrang! - Songs you must own

Kerrang (Issue #1033) - 27 November 2004
Along with this issue, Kerrang! are giving away a free 15-track "Best of 2004" CD
The first track is Rammstein "Mein Teil":
Face-melting pyrotechnics, subverted Nazi imagery, songs about cocks... There’s not muc that German Industro-metal behemoths Rammstein won’t do to grab our attention, and this year’s super-heavy ‘Reise, Reise’ album was every bit as gripping as we expected. And if you can name another song about turning a man’s bell-end into a tasty snack that rocks this hard, do let us know...

The full 15-track rundown:
(01) Rammstein – ‘Mein Teil’
(02) The Rasmus – ‘Time to Burn’ (03) My Chemical romance – "You know what they do to guys like us in prison"
(04) The Offspring – "(Can’t get my) Head around you"
(05) Green Day – "American Idiot"
(06) Bad Religion – "LA is Burning"
(07) Velvet Revolver – "Slither"
(08) Incubus – "Megalomaniac (Live)" (09) Taking Back Sunday – "A decade under the influence"
(10) Slipknot – "Pulse of the maggots"
(11) Mastodon – "I am Ahab"
(12) Biffy Clyro – "There’s no such thing as a Jaggy Snake"
(13) The Bled – "I never met another Gemini"
(14) Cradle of Filth – "Medusa and Hemlock"
(15) Head Automatica – "Brooklyn is Burning"

Kerrang (Issue #1033) - 27 November 2004
666 Songs you must own as compiled by Kerrang
I won’t be listing all 666 here – just a mention of the ‘Contemporary Metal’ Category which has Rammstein in at #12 with "Du Hast" from their 1997 album ‘Sehnsucht’
"Updating the dark industrial sound pioneered by Ministry, this goose-stepping, militaristic epic helped ‘Sehnsucht’ shift a million copies Stateside – an astonishing feat for such a defiantly uncommercial band."

Also recommended:
"Ich Will" (from ‘Mutter’, 2001)
"Amerika" (from ‘Reise, Reise’, 2004)

© 2005 Sue Lindemann