U2 / Achtung Baby

Achtung Baby is the groundbreaking seventh studio album by Irish rock icon U2, released on November 18, 1991. Following severe critical blowback from their 1988 project Rattle and Hum, the band famously chose to "chop down The Joshua Tree" and reconstruct their musical identity. Recording primarily at Hansa Ton Studios in Berlin during the historic reunification of Germany, U2 successfully abandoned their earnest 1980s arena-rock sound to absorb darker, grit-infused elements of industrial, alternative rock, electronic dance music, and European techno.