Einstrürzende Neubauten Shirt When Ruben Prepares For Surgery
One of the lesser known bands to have a shirt featured in Sound of Metal is the German experimental musical group Einstrürzende Neubauten (Collapsing New Builds), which has been a fixture of the industrial and noise genres since forming in West Berlin in 1980. Known for composing unconventional musical soundscapes with custom-built instruments mostly made from scrap metal and tools, Einstrürzende Neubauten makes total sense here, considering what is happening to Ruben at this point in the movie.
We first see Ruben wearing the Einstrürzende Neubauten shirt (with the band’s logo based on a prehistoric cave drawing) while he considers undergoing surgery for cochlear implants (which create a metallic, distorted, and unnatural sound), which again is a great way of describing the band’s music. I don’t know if this was intentional choice by director Darius Marder, but it’s a great use of foreshadowing if that is the case.
