Neue Deutsche Härte
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The Neue Deutsche Härte (New German hardness) is a direction in hard rock/metal music that developed in Germany in the 1990s. The combination of deep, clean vocals with a sound based on heavily distorted electric guitar and drums also usually includes keyboard and the use of synths, samples, and sometimes drum-machines.
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[edit] Origins
Oomph! are considered to be the pioneers of the genre. Their second album, Sperm, released in 1994, defined their special music to be the mixture of rhythm-based electronic music and hard rock, which served to be the source of inspiration for Rammstein. Also many elements of later-NDH were found in Fleischmann in the early 1990s.
Rammstein was the first commercial breakthrough in the United States and all over the world. Rammstein call their NDH-subgenre "Tanz-Metall" ("Dance metal").
[edit] Increasing popularity
NDH's sales has been increasing in Germany and the United States. Rammstein has achieved nearly 11 million in sales, Joachim Witt has sold nearly 1 million, other German artists are experiencing rising demand, too.
[edit] Artists
- Die Krupps
- Eisbrecher
- Fleischmann
- Joachim Witt
- L'Âme Immortelle
- Megaherz
- Oomph!
- Rammstein
- Schweisser
- Silber (Weissglut)
- Stahlhammer
- Unheilig
