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Local Rammstein fan tries listening to other bands

Guy who has only listened to Rammstein, listening to his second artist: Getting a lot of Rammstein vibes from this...

Approximately a month or so ago one of my Discord friends posted a few songs by the Finnish band Turmion Kätilöt, and I thought they were really good. This sent me on a journey to find more music that vaguely sounds like my favourite band. I am not the kind of guy who listens to a billion albums per year, so this is a challenge to me. In fact, I only listen to a handful of artists. I have a huge music collection with over 1000 songs, but that's because I have the entire discographies of the same few people. But now, I will force myself to broaden my horizons and hopefully by the end of this journey find another band that blows my mind and permanently alters my music taste like Rammstein did some 12 years ago.

It is very much worth noting that I know absolutely nothing about music. I almost failed music class in middle school. If I touched an instrument it would probably wither. So I really don't have any specific things like, I don't know, the tuning of the instruments or something, that I'm looking for in the bands whose music I'll try. I'm mostly going off Vibes(tm), recommendations from friends, lists of Neue Deutsche Härte bands in the various language versions of Wikipedia, looking up "bands that sound like Rammstein kind of" on Reddit or something, and also Every Noise at Once, which hasn't been updated in a while but that just makes my job easier because I don't have to listen to as many bands. I'm mostly looking for artists whose music is listed as Neue Deutsche Härte, but not all bands I'll listen to exactly fall under that genre (which is pretty vague tbh). I'm looking for vibes, if the music has slight Rammstein vibes I'm including it.

My plan is to listen to every studio album released by the bands/artists I find and write a small article for each band where I list basic facts like the members, albums, and a small "review" (not a judgement of value) where I kind of describe their sound, compare it to Rammstein because that's the standard we're going by here, and give the band's music a very subjective "rating" depending on how much I like it. If a band has a massive discography and only had a NDH phase then I'll just listen to the things they released during that phase. The intention is to create a comprehensive list for people who want to find Music That Vaguely Sounds Like Rammstein. Maybe someone who actually knows about music will see it and think that it's such dogshit that they feel compelled to make their own version that's actually good.

Bands/Artists I've listened to so far (in chronological order):