In one of those ironies with which popular culture brims, Marilyn Manson was tarred with the stain of the Columbine shootings even though the perpetrators of that crime had no interest in his music, while Rammstein, whose noise the killers reportedly admired, largely escaped public scrutiny. The main reason, in all likelihood, was Rammstein's relative obscurity, circa 1999, as compared to Manson's, but there was another factor as well. Manson sings in English, and Rammstein's songs are in German -- meaning that most American guardians of morality had no idea what lead singer Till Lindemann was saying outside of a few random phrases... More >>>