Editing Rammstein (section)

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''The New York Times'' described Rammstein's music as a "powerful strain of brutally intense rock... bringing gale-force music and spectacular theatrics together".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=184439 |title= NYTimes Movies |access-date= 10 April 2007 |work=The New York Times |first=Manohla |last=Dargis}}{{Dead link|date=December 2012}}</ref> The members have not been shy about courting controversy and have periodically attracted condemnation from [[morality]] campaigners. Till and Flake's stage act earned them a night in jail in June 1999 after a liquid-ejecting [[dildo]] was used in a concert in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]]. Back home in Germany, the band faced repeated accusations of fascist sympathies because of the dark and sometimes [[Militarism|militaristic]] imagery of their videos and concerts, including the use of excerpts from the film ''[[Olympia (1938 film)|Olympia]]'' by [[Leni Riefenstahl]] in the video for their cover of Depeche Mode's song "Stripped". [[MTV Germany]] studied the lyrics, talked to the band and came away satisfied that Rammstein are apolitical; Peter Ruppert, then head of Music Programming at MTV Germany, stated that the band "aren't in any way connected with any right-wing activities".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.helnwein.com/news/update/artikel_3108.html |title=German Band's Fierce Songs Taking US by Storm (Press) |publisher=Helnwein.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906200325/http://www.helnwein.com/news/update/artikel_3108.html |archive-date=6 September 2008}}</ref>

Their cover of their debut album ''Herzeleid'', released in Germany in 1995, showed the band members bare-chested in a style that resembled [[Strength Through Joy]] in the eyes of some critics, who accused the band of trying to sell themselves as "poster boys for the [[Master Race]]".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://herzeleid.com/en/faq/band |title= Herzeleid.com (FAQ) |access-date= 10 April 2007 |publisher= Herzeleid.com |archive-date= 7 December 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171207140305/http://herzeleid.com/en/faq/band |url-status= dead}}</ref> Rammstein have vehemently denied this and said they want nothing to do with politics or supremacy of any kind. Lorenz, annoyed by the claim, has remarked it is just a photo, and should be understood as such. ''Herzeleid'' has since been given a different cover in North America, depicting the band members' faces.

The video of "[[Deutschland (song)|Deutschland]]", released in 2019, sparked further controversy, as it portrays black German actress [[Ruby Commey]] appearing as [[Germania (personification)|Germania]], which has been described as "a calculated affront to German nationalists".<ref name="bloomberg-germania">{{cite news |last1=Bershidsky |first1=Leonid |title=What Has Rammstein Revealed About Germany's Soul? |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-02/rammstein-rock-video-sparks-debate-over-german-national-identity |website=[[Bloomberg News]] |access-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200519042220/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-02/rammstein-rock-video-sparks-debate-over-german-national-identity |archive-date=19 May 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> The video also portrays the band members both as Nazi concentration camp executioners and as Jewish prisoners, sparking the complaints of [[Holocaust survivors|Holocaust survivor]] groups; however, others defended the video and the song lyrics, which have been interpreted as "express[ing] a love/hate relationship with Germany".<ref name="metalsucks-deutschland">{{cite web |last1=Rosemberg |first1=Axl |title=Let's Talk About Rammstein's Controversial "Deutschland" Vide |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2019/03/29/lets-talk-about-rammsteins-deutschland-video/ |website=Metal Sucks |date=29 March 2019 |access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref>