RAMMSTEIN – MADE IN GERMANY 1995-2011 (Album Review)

There’s a power to RAMMSTEIN that one finds irresistible, yet hard to explain. On the Global stage, they’re one of the undisputed leaders of metallic sound delivery, while in the U.S. they rank as one of the few crossover artists to sing predominantly in a foreign tongue, yet maintain the audiences needed to sell-out arenas in a matter of minutes. It’s easy for a band like METALLICA to sell out venues across Europe while singing in English, but the hospitality toward equally exotic sonic imports here in the ‘States is a hard commodity to find. Unless, you’re RAMMSTEIN.

Released this week, MADE IN GERMANY 1995-2011 is a welcome overview of the band’s 16-years-and-counting as a fixture in the heavy music scene and it’s industrial offshoots. Available as a single disc, double-disc, or Super Deluxe box set, MADE IN GERMANY collects the most essential hits in it’s single-disc form while expanding into remix territory on the 2-disc edition. The Super Deluxe edition is for only the most extreme RAMMSTEIN fan, collecting all of the above alongside a 240-page booklet, all of the band’s videos to date, and extensive making-of-features – in a steel box.