Einstürzende Neubauten

One of the earliest and rarest Neubauten albums, Stahlmusik was recorded live to tape in a pillar of the Stadtautobahn Bridge in West Berlin on June 1, 1980, and was released on cassette in October via Blixa Bargeld's "Eisengrau" shop, where the earliest incarnations of the band would often rehearse. Musically, the sound of the album is more conventional than the band's next "album", Kollaps, mainly because percussionist N. U. Unruh had not yet abandoned his drum-kit for the miscellaneous scrap metal of later releases.