Rammstein have ever been ones to shy from controversy, and with the mega-budget music video for "Deutschland," their first single in eight years, the industrial-metal firestarters aimed to push buttons and then some. Even before its premiere, the video received criticism from government officials and Jewish leaders in Germany, who called the 30-second teaser that proceeded the full clip "irresponsible" and "tasteless" due to its depiction of band members wearing concentration camp prisoner uniforms, about to be hung at the gallows. When the final video dropped, it was a revelation: a mind-blowing nine-and-half-minute trip through German history, in all its epic glory and extreme ugliness, visually expressing the struggle in the song's lyrics as the band attempted to reconcile themselves with their homeland's conflicted legacy. Bold, thrilling and thought-provoking, the "Deutschland" video is a true, confrontational piece of art and 2019's finest music video.