[6] Their anti-police songs continue to be anthems of leftist political movements,[7] and have translated into slogans that are widely used, for example, in graffiti and stickering campaigns.

Some of their lyrics have expressed anti-American sentiment, a popular opinion among students in the '68 generation, because Americans were perceived to have put several prominent Nazi sympathizers back into power[8] (see also Red Army Faction#Background).

[2][10][11] Michael "Elf" Mayer and Sven "Eddie" Räther both attended high school at the Gymnasium Heidberg in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Langenhorn.

In fall 1979 Slime recorded four songs for an EP: Bullenschweine, Iran, Hey Punk and Ich hasse.

They played Polizei SA/SS and Wir wollen keine Bullenschweine, as well as a cover version of Drafi Deutscher's song Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht.

The album contained a copy of the song "Wir wollen keine Bullenschweine", which attracted the attention of the Hamburg public prosecutor.

Slime's music and lyrics became darker and more complex by their third album Alle Gegen Alle, released in 1983. Notable songs are Deutschland muss Sterben (...damit wir leben können) (English translation: "Germany must die (... so we can live)"), an allusion to a line of the 1914 poem Soldatenabschied by the German poet Heinrich Lersch: "Deutschland muß leben, und wenn wir sterben müssen" (Germany must live, even if we must die).

This album also included classic Slime songs frequently played today Linke Spießer, Störtebeker, and Sand im Getriebe.

Eddi Räther and Michael "Elf" Mayer formed a short-lived band called "Targets" with Stéphane Larsson from The Buttocks.

Stephan Mahler played drums in the Gothic rock band "Mask For" and the group Torpedo Moskau.

Dirk Jora has said that the title from this song refers to how the neo-nazi's wanted to burn people in their beds like swine.

[14] This album includes the chilling song Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland (English translation: "Death is a master from Germany").

"Death Fugue") by Paul Celan, who was a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust and described the horrors he had experienced there.

released a re-written cover version of Rio Reiser's song König von Deutschland in collaboration with Axel Kurth of the band Wizo and Bela B. of Die Ärzte.

Slime reunited in 2009 and released the album Sich fügen heißt lügen (English translation: "To submit is to lie") in 2012.

In 2020, Slime released the album Wem gehört die Angst (English translation: "Who does the fear belong to?").

[17][18] Slime quickly recruited a new singer, Tex Brasket, with whom they recorded a new album Zwei ("two"), released in 2022.