History Music / EinsturzendeNeubauten

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: The band started out with often performing level 10 material, but most of their post-1990s works usually average on level 2.

* VocalEvolution: Blixa Bargeld's vocals went from screaming and growling in ''Kollaps'' to the quiet, low-toned singing in newer albums.

* MinimalisticCoverArt: The front cover of ''Kollaps'' consists of only the band's logo and name with a background color being a shade of brown. Some other Einstürzende Neubauten albums like ''Strategies Against Architecture '80–'83'' and ''Ende Neu'' have this as well, the latter using the band's name over a human's eye and skin color.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T.'' introduced a wider range of moods, melodies, and sounds than ''Kollaps'', a style expanded on ''Halber Mensch'', which was succeeded by the dark ambient of ''Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala''. ''Haus der Lüge'' includes elements of electronic and rock music but is less diverse than ''Tabula Rasa'', that in turn is louder and more unconventional than ''Ende Neu''. ''Silence is Sexy'' disposes most of the noise aspects found in previous albums in favor of restraint, resulting in softer songs. ''Perpetuum Mobile'' continues the relaxed and mature nature of ''Silence is Sexy'' while bringing back some of the SensoryAbuse heard in the band's 1980s works. ''Alles Weider Offen'' remained smooth despite being a slightly bleaker album. The World War I-centered concept album ''Lament'' is based off archived recordings and writings and accompanied by a string quartet.

* ShoutOut: Their logo is an apparently meaningless old [[Main/NativeAmerican Mesoamerican]] petroglyph Bargeld discovered in 1980 when he searched for mythological symbols.

* SensoryAbuse: The first decade of Einstürzende Neubauten's output primarily constitutes of noises and textures made from using random objects like scrap metal, construction tools, et cetera.

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: They often use thing like scrap metal, jet turbines, and other various things in their songs. (Also includes "nonstandard" playing, e.g. playing a guitar with a violin bow.)

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T.'' introduced a wider range of moods, melodies, and sounds than ''Kollaps'', a style expanded on ''Halber Mensch'', which was succeeded by the dark ambient of ''Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala''. ''Haus der Lüge'' includes elements of electronic and rock music but is less diverse than ''Tabula Rasa'', that in turn is louder and more unconventional than ''Ende Neu''. ''Silence is Sexy'' disposes most of the noise aspects found in previous albums in favor of restraint, resulting in softer songs. ''Perpetuum Mobile'' feels more relaxed and mature than preceding efforts, followed by the slightly bleaker ''Alles Weider Offen''. The World War I-centered concept album ''Lament'' is based off archived recordings and writings and accompanied by a string quartet.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T.'' introduced a wider range of moods, melodies, and sounds than ''Kollaps'', a style expanded on ''Halber Mensch'', which was succeeded by the dark ambient of ''Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala''. ''Haus der Lüge'' includes elements of electronic and rock music but is less diverse than ''Tabula Rasa'', that in turn is louder and more unconventional than ''Ende Neu''. ''Silence is Sexy'' disposes most of the noise aspects found in previous albums in favor of restraint, resulting in softer songs. ''Perpetuum Mobile'' feels more relaxed and mature than previous efforts, followed by the slightly bleaker ''Alles Weider Offen''. The World War I-centered concept album ''Lament'' is based off archived recordings and writings and accompanied by a string quartet.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Alles Weider Offen'' breaks the trend of LighterAndSofter taken by the band for its bleak lyrics and somberness, and ''Lament'' is also this trope since it was composed for an 100th anniversary Main/WorldWarI memorial in Belgium.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T.'' introduced a wider range of moods, melodies, and sounds than ''Kollaps'', a style expanded on ''Halber Mensch'', which was succeeded by the dark ambient of ''Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala''. ''Haus der Lüge'' includes elements of electronic and rock music but is less diverse than ''Tabula Rasa'', that in turn is louder and more unconventional than ''Ende Neu''. ''Silence is Sexy'' disposes most of the noise aspects found in previous albums in favor of restraint, resulting in softer songs. ''Perpetuum Mobile'' feels more relaxed and mature than previous efforts, followed by the slightly bleaker ''Alles Weider Offen'' and the World War I-centered ''Lament''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Alles Weider Offen'' breaks the trend of LighterAndSofter taken by the band for its bleak lyrics and somberness, and ''Lament'' is more so since it was composed for an 100th anniversary Main/WorldWarI memorial in Belgium.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T.'' introduced a wider range of moods, melodies, and sounds than ''Kollaps'', a style expanded on ''Halber Mensch'', which was succeeded by the dark ambient of ''Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala''. ''Haus der Lüge'' includes elements of electronic and rock music but is less diverse than ''Tabula Rasa'', that in turn is louder and more unconventional than ''Ende Neu''. ''Silence is Sexy'' disposes most of the noise aspects found in previous albums in favor of restraint, resulting in softer songs. ''Perpetuum Mobile'' feels more relaxed and mature than previous efforts, and its sequel ''Alles Weider Offen'' introduce

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Lament'' temporarily broke the trend of LighterAndSofter taken by the band, since it was composed for an 100th anniversary Main/WorldWarI memorial in Belgium.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T.'' was slightly softer and more melodic and various than ''Kollaps'', a style expanded on ''Halber Mensch'', which was followed by the dark ambient of ''Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala''. ''Haus der Lüge'' included elements of electronic and Main/IndustrialRock in a direction taken by 2 more albums. ''Silence is Sexy'' disposes most of the noise aspects found in previous albums in favor of softer songs.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Lament'' temporarily broke the trend of LighterAndSofter taken by the band, due to it being a commission for an Main/WorldWarI memorial in Belgium.

* LighterAndSofter: Anything after ''Kollaps'' went down this path.
* NewSoundAlbum: Anything after ''Kollaps'' is . ''Silence is Sexy'' disposes most of the noise elements found in previous albums in favor of softer songs.

* GenreRoulette: Neubauten gradually calmed down from the metallic percussion and noisy intensity of ''Kollaps'' in exchange for increasingly quiet conventional styles while maintaining the usage of custom musical instruments built out of found objects.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Silence is Sexy'' disposes most of the noise elements found in previous albums in favor of softer songs.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Kollaps'' and ''Stahlmuzik''

* CarefulWithThatAxe:Blixa invoked this a lot in the old days.

* MinimalisticCoverArt: ''Kollaps'' consists of only the band's logo and name with a background color being a shade of brown. Some other Einstürzende Neubauten albums like ''Strategies Against Architecture '80–'83'' and ''Ende Neu'' have this as well, the latter having the band's name over a human's eye and skin color.

* MinimalisticCoverArt: ''Kollaps'' consists of only the band's logo and name. Some other Einstürzende Neubauten albums like ''Strategies Against Architecture '80–'83'' and ''Ende Neu'' have this as well, the latter having the band's name over a human's eye and skin color.

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: They often use thing like scrap metal, jet turbines, and other various things in their songs.

* IndecipherableLyrics: Intentionally in the song "Was ist, ist". The chorus or the audience fill some parts of this song by words made up on the spot (meaning "canon" lyrics simply don't exist there).

* PunnyName: A literal translation of the band's name would be "Collapsing New-Buildings". The name isn't meant to conjure up the image of intentionally destroying newly made buildings, however, but rather that of "new buildings" falling over. A ''Neubauten'', for the non-German tropers, is specifically one of the cheaply-constructed "modern" buildings erected following 1945 in many German cities, which had an unfortunate reputation of being extremely unsound compared to the ''Altbauten'' (old-buildings), which were mostly destroyed after WWII. Their name attracted unwanted attention within ''two months'' of the band's formation thanks to the roof of Berlin's former city hall (one of the most famous ''Neubauten'') collapsing, killing one person and injuring many others. Think of a hypothetical NYC based band which formed in July 2001 that called themselves "Planes Into Buildings", and you'll get a pretty decent idea of what the band had to deal with.

* BilingualBonus: Bargeld has mentioned that many of the group's early lyrics rely heavily upon German-language puns and idioms which are functionally untranslatable; conversely, he does the same with the band's few English songs.
** PunnyName: A literal translation of the band's name would be "Collapsing New-Buildings," though the implication of ''Neubauten'' is specifically one of the cheaply-constructed "modern" buildings erected following WWII in many German cities, which had an unfortunate reputation of being extremely unsound. Appropriately enough, the band's first concert coincided with the demolition of Berlin's former city hall, one of the most famous ''Neubauten''.
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: They often use thing like scrap metal, jet turbines, and other various things in their songs.

* BeCarefulWithThatAxe:Blixa invoked this a lot in the old days.

BeCarefulWithThatAxe:Blixa invoked this a lot in the old days.