https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuLPJg2gwjQ Forming in 1989 and releasing eleven albums - their most recent being 2012's "Des Wahnsinns fette Beute" - all with the same three members, Wolfburg's Oomph! must be doing something right. The trio are known as pioneering the metal sub-genre of Neue Deutsche Härte, influencing the best known bands of that genre, Rammstein and Megaherz, with their mix of traditional metal with raw industrial rock, comparing them to American contemporaries Nine Inch Nails - just with more melody. Beginning with a pure, dark industrial rock sound (which was a fairly new genre at the time), the band shortly evolved into a more mainstream rock sound, while in recent years adding in more pulse-pounding EDM and pop elements on top of their heavy, down-tuned guitars. But with all these changes - which helped the band chart all the way to number two with "Wahrheit oder Pflicht" - they never threw away what made them Oomph! And to be even more accessible to the rest of the world, in 2010 the band released "Truth or Dare," a greatest hits compilation where they re-recorded their hits in English. Recommended if you like: Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails, Korn
Shawn-Ray Dalinsky (27) is a communications graduate student at SUNY Brockport. He is 2012 graduate of SUNY Oneonta where he dual majored in Mass Communication and Music Industry. He has an unhealthy addiction to music.