04-11-2019, 10:03 PM
I think rammstein has very very little to do with authoritarianism or bdsm, or at least didn't initially. They just had a french/german romanticism + heavy metal aesthetic mashup that they wanted to brand which they did successfully. Then people with 200+ iqs made the mental link of german + deep voice = nazis and they kinda adapted and ran with it. The first time rammstein used malewitsch's cross, which they ripped from a better art collective who does care about authoritarianism, was when they first grew in popularity in the English speaking world