A German court has overturned a ban which had been in place since December last year over the sale of Rammstein’s last album, “Liebe ist Für Alle Da” (“Love is For All”). The original version of the album by the German hard rock group is no longer banned from public display in German stores. The court in Cologne overturned an earlier ruling by the German Federal Office for the Examination of Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM) [Where do these crazy Germans come up with these names? – Tone Deaf Ed.) in Bonn of November.
The album had been banned because the songs supposedly glorified violence and unprotected sexual intercourse, and that the album’s artwork showing the band’s guitarist Richard Kruspe wielding a meat cleaver with a naked woman on a dinner table breached the German Youth Protection Act. Label Universal had applied to have the ban overturned, arguing that it did not contain a detailed and real description of violence and that there was only a ‘surrealistic hint’ at violence.
