Industrial metal titans Rammstein have released a music video for their song "Haifisch". It's the third single from their 2009 album Liebe ist für alle da (which is German for "Love is there for everyone"). There, now you can charm German people.
The video shows the funeral and aftermath of the band's singer, Till Lindemann. It's got all the hallmarks of what we've come to expect from Rammstein, such as busty women catfighting, some (literal) toilet humor, and a collection of scenes where Lindemann is tortured to death, thrown from a cliff, has his oxygen pipe removed while on the Moon, and being suffocated in a plate of spaghetti. If all these sound bizarre (or familiar), that's because each scene is based on a previous Rammstein video (albeit modified to show Lindemann's demise).
While dining on sumptuous refreshments after the burial, the remaining members of Rammstein start a brawl that results in Christian Lorenz falling on the casket….to find it empty. The scene shifts to a tropical beach in Hawaii, where Lindemann sends the band a postcard, showing off a humongous shark that he caught.
It's a funny little video for a fun little song. After a doomy brass intro, the song kicks into an uptempo march, with Lorenz's keyboards providing a tasty little flourish as Lindemann rumbles through his lyrics. Continuing a trend from recent rock and heavy metal videos, there are no scenes of the band performing the song. For me, it's a welcome paradigm. Rammstein fans will be pleased that six albums and fifteen years on, the boys from Berlin still don't take themselves too seriously.
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