Farmer Boys

Farmer Boys is a German metal band originating from Stuttgart. They reached their peak with their album The World Is Ours, released in 2000; the videos for the singles "Here Comes the Pain" and "If You Ever Leave Me Standing" were put into rotation by German alternative music channels such as VIVA Zwei. Farmer Boys acquired a cult following over the following years. Their musical style is a mix of Machine Head's groove metal and Paradise Lost's gothic metal; however, their lyrical subject matter, unusual for the style, often revolves around the darker side of farming – bestiality and incest ("Farm Sweet Farm"), animal torture ("When a Chicken Cries for Love"), suicide ("Relieve the Tension") and slaughterhouses ("When Pigs Fly").