RAMMSTEIN — Mutter (review)

RAMMSTEIN — Mutter album cover Album · 2001 · Industrial Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
siLLy puPPy
After RAMMSTEIN gained worldwide fame from their album “Sehnsucht” and the single “Du Hast” being on “The Matrix” Soundtrack, they took a few years to create a more ambitious and sophisticated album in MUTTER (mother). Without sacrificing any of the elements that made their previous albums work so well, the music on MUTTER simply perfects everything laid out on “Sehnsucht.” The melodies are more epic and dynamic. The keyboards take on a more symphonic approach as opposed to the techno and the songwriting is much more varied and interesting. The songs have multiple parts and offer pleasant surprises within them. The metal aspects are just as intense incorporating plenty of thrash metal fury and Till Lindemann sounds like he got some vocal training because on this release he doesn't sound quite like a robotic drone. He has evolved into a passionate robotic drone with a broader range in his singing skills. All is still sung in that evil growly native German language.

This is my absolute favorite RAMMSTEIN album. MUTTER was really the peak of RAMMSTEIN's creative ingenuity for after this album they would begin the great recycling project and retreating to familiar ground, but on this fantastically diverse album we are treated to some of the best songwriting that the band ever churned out. Whether it's the symphonic bombastic “Mein Herz Brennt (my heart burns)” or the military march meets metal “Links (left)” or even the über-catchy robotic background chorus-drenched “Spieluhr (music box),” the formula results in a smashing success that keeps me coming back to this one more than any other of their discography. Unfortunately they would never hit on this perfect balance of their influences again but for this one album all the stars aligned almost perfectly. If not for the last couple of tracks that I find a tad inferior to the rest of the album I would give this a perfect rating.
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siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
It's been a while since i have listened to Rammstein in general but i go thru phases when i get into older things for no reason
adg211288 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I listened to this one a lot when I first had it, not so much these days. I should really play it again sometime.

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