Einstürzende Neubauten

Einstürzende Neubauten’s name translates from German into “crashing down new buildings,” and refers to the wholesale-cheap econoflats that sprang up in the wake of WWII’s destruction, erasing much of Germany’s architectural culture rather than restoring it. Einstürzende Neubauten’s truly organic form of industrial music, utilizing percussive metallic hardware on top of grinding guitars and electric fence-zapping synths, exists as a spirited metaphysical challenge to the demoralizing effects of socio-economical postmodernism. As an afterthought, the group also embodies an affront to the Americanized industrial-cum-disco “revisionism” that all but ruined the genre’s reputation by validating Stabbing Westward’s existence.

Updated 11/18/2010