This would be a special edition - because their lead vocalist, Douglas McCarthy, died yesterday at age 58 - which is way too young. He toured with the band until last year, when his health issues (cirrosis from excessive drinking earlier in life, for one) took their toll.
He will be missed,
But we had to do a post today anyway, so this seemed like the best idea, and Nitzer Ebb is a band that I always kind of liked, but didn't think about too much.
And let's talk about the music. Pioneers of the industrial wave of music, the band chose a name that sounded German without actually using German words.... so everyone thought they were German. They weren't. They were from the UK.
This 1986 song is one of my favorites by them. It is both danceable and moshable, which is kind of a tough line to straddle.
Industrial music is kind of a weird genre. It's both poppy electronic dance music and angry, heavy music. Rarely is that made more clear than in this 2023 live show.
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