History Music / Oomph

* IntercourseWithYou: "Sex" from ''Sperm''.
--> ''GIB MIR SEX!''

* HumansAreFlawed: "Mutters Schoß" ("Mother's womb") from ''Unrein'':

* TheLudovicoTechnique: Happens to Dero in the "Auf Kurs" music video.

%% * GoIntoTheLight: "Das weiße Licht"

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The village in the music video for "Das weiße Licht" ("The white light"), which is revealed to be inhabited by [[RoboticReveal humanoid robots]].

* {{March}}: "Gleichschritt" ("Lockstep") is a weird military marchlike song, both in lyrics and melody.

* March: "Gleichschritt" ("Lockstep") is a weird military marchlike song, both in lyrics and melody.

* KillItWithFire: "Das letzte Streichholz" ("The final match") tells of a girl on her way to burn down her house, to take revenge on her abusive family, and likely with the intention of killing them as well. The music video downplays it, as the girl only burns a big pile of family portraits and possessions, under the hysterical reaction of her abusive mother and siblings.

* RomanticizedAbuse: "Come and kick me" is sung from the perspective of someone who enjoy the abuses and the beatings they receive, begging for more.

* GoIntoTheLight: "Das weiße Licht"

!! Live Members:

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The village in the music video for "Das weisse Licht".

* HiddenTrack: In ''Wahrheit oder Pflicht'', the final track "Im Licht" (In light) is over 11 minutes long, but the actual song ends at around 4:10 minutes; a bonus track, "I’m going down", begins at around 6:40. However, later releases of the album had the tracks separated altogether.

* SelfDemonstratingSong: The song "Defekt" (meaning "defective" or "faulty") ends with a loop which sounds like a phonograph glitch.

** "Der neue Gott" ("The new God") from ''Oomph!'' is sung in German but has a short interlude in English. Later releases of the album included a "bonus version" completely in German, with the interlude translated almost precisely.
* WeAllDieSomeday: "Geborn zu sterben" (Born to Die) is about life's fleetingness.

** "Brennende Liebe" crosses over Oomph! with the Austrian duo ''L'Âme Immortelle''.
** From ''[=GlaubeLiebeTod=]'': the single version of "Die Schlinge" crosses over Oomph! with ''Music/{{Apocalyptica}}'', while the single version of "Träumst du?" becomes a duet of Dero Goi and Czech singer Marta Jandová.
** "Land ahead", the English version of "Land im Sicht", includes of Sharon den Adel from ''Music/WithinTemptation'' as backing vocalist.

* {{Guyliner}}: Dero's customary makeup since the release of ''Augen Auf''.

* RomanticizedAbuse: "Come and kick me" is told in first person from the perspective of someone who enjoy the abuses and the beatings they receive, begging for more.

** "Kleinstadtboy" takes up the title and, partially, the melody and the text of "Smalltown Boy" by ''Music/BronskiBeat''.

* ''Delikatessen'' (2006) - Includes some of the band's favourite tracks, b-sides, remixes and never-heard before bonus tracks.

!''Ready or not, I'm troping'':

''Oomph!'' (sometimes rendered [[CapsLock OOMPH!]]) is an IndustrialMetal band (even though their first album, ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Oomph!]]'', was an [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness EBM album]]) founded in 1989 in Wolfsburg, UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, consisting of Dero Goi, Andreas Crap and Robert Flux. Their second album, ''[[NewSoundAlbum Sperm]]'', released in 1994, is widely considered the UrExample of Neue Deutsche Härte (or [=NDH=], "New German Hardness"), a German subgenre of IndustrialMetal with influences from EBM, featuring such bands as ''Unheilig'', ''Eisbrecher'', ''Megaherz'', ''Music/{{ASP}}'' and a certain little band that you may have heard of going by the name of ''Music/{{Rammstein}}''.

Even though they were very influential, they didn't make their big mainstream breakthrough in Germany until 2004, when "Augen auf!", the first single from their album ''Wahrheit oder Pflicht'', was #1 on the German singles chart for 8 consecutive weeks. Nonetheless, the success of ''Music/{{Rammstein}}'', whom they have themselves inspired, contributed to popularise [=NDH=] even outside the German-speaking public, and was indeed of help for ''Oomph!'' as well.

** "Brennende Liebe" crosses over ''Oomph!'' with the Austrian duo ''L'Âme Immortelle''.
** From ''[=GlaubeLiebeTod=]'': the single version of "Die Schlinge" crosses over ''Oomph!'' with ''Music/{{Apocalyptica}}'', while the single version of "Träumst du?" becomes a duet of Dero Goi and Czech singer Marta Jandová.

* GenreShift: ''Oomph!'' are the living embodiment of this trope, thanks to the numerous experimentations during the course of their career. Their first EBM album ''Oomph!'' was immediately followed by the more IndustrialMetal ''Sperm'', which is considered by many the enstablishing album for the NDH genre. ''Plastik'' represented a turning point by noticeably softening the band's sound, and ''Wahrheit oder Pflich'' introduced GothicMetal elements which have been kept so far, although at a varying level.

* KillItWithFire: "Das letzte Streichholz" is about a girl on her way to burn down her house, to take revenge on her abusive family, and likely with the intention of killing them as well. The music video downplays it, as the girl only burns a big pile of family portraits and possessions, under the hysterical reaction of her abusive mother and siblings.