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Studies have shown that techno-metal-industrial-classical German band "Rammstein" may be the best music for computer programming, ever.
This study, while limited in focus to a single respondent, nevertheless has far-reaching implications in the computer industry. If computer programmers the world over listened to Rammstein as they worked, preferably at volumes at or above 110-115 decibels, code in general would end up being at least 35-50% more hard-core and bad-ass, the study concludes.
Why so bad-ass? The subject (and author, truth be told) of this study claims to reap the benefits of increased energy and feelings of rockness while listening to the screaming sextet. "It's like," he says, "It's like I'm in a movie about computer programmers, and I'm the main programmer guy, and I'm in the middle of my montage sequence, right? Where I have to code something really hard or really important and I have to do it really fast and maybe there are a few cuts to me scribbling something with a lot of arrows onto a yellow legal pad or a large chalkboard, and then back to my fingers flying over the keyboard, and then maybe cutting back to me crossing everything out that I just scribbled, and of course a lot of me spinning around dramatically and rolling across a dark room in a wheely-chair to get to another computer, and every once in a while you see me down another shot of vodka and there's some sweat beading on my forehead and a lot of shots of my various computer monitors where highly-unrealistic computer interfaces are flashing very fancy computer graphics at me, and then at the end I pump my fists in the air and spin around in the chair and take a swig right out of the bottle because I just coded what I had to get done in time. And the Rammstein is, like, totally my personal, loud, screamy, Germanic soundtrack. Like Hugh Jackman did? In that movie where he had to break into some government computer while some girl was going down on him so he couldn't concentrate and John Travolta had a gun to his head? Except later in the movie. Not the part with the girl and the sex, though. The montage-y bit. You know the one."
The study also notes that the subject then hung his head, sighed, and added, "Even when all I'm doing is creating an auto-generating table of contents for a technical manual, and not, say, hacking into an evil spy network and saving the world." Further applications of Rammstein were effective in restoring his earlier ebullient mood.