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Rammstein is a German band that was formed in
1994. Their musical style incorporates
elements of metal/hard rock, industrial
metal, and electronic music, which the band
has termed 'Tanz (dance) Metal'. Their songs
are performed almost exclusively in German.
They have sold over 12 million records
worldwide[1].
Rammstein's entire catalogue is published by
BMG Music Publishing.
Rammstein takes its name indirectly from the
western German town of Ramstein-Miesenbach,
site of an airshow disaster in 1988. The
band's signature song, the eponymous
"Rammstein", is a commemoration of the
tragedy that took place at the Ramstein Air
Base. The extra "m" in the band's name allows
the word to mean "battering ram" (literally
"ramming stone"), reinforcing the image of
the band's music as fierce and relentless.
Despite lyrics that are in German, the band
has enjoyed success outside of Germany, both
in Europe, North America as well as Japan,
Australia and New Zealand. With the album
Reise, Reise (2004), they became the most
successful German-language band of all time
internationally. Rammstein has had several
top ten singles in Europe. The asteroid
110393 Rammstein is named in the band's
honour.
The band's members all come from the former
East Germany, specifically East Berlin and
Schwerin. They are:
Till Lindemann
Richard Zven "Scholle" Kruspe
Paul H. Landers
Oliver "Ollie" Riedel
Christoph "Doom" Schneider
Christian "Flake" Lorenz
following an attempt by the latter to compose
American-influenced music with a West Berlin
band called Orgasm Death Gimmicks. As Kruspe
put it, "I realized it's really important to
make music and make it fit with your
language, which I didn't do in the past. I
came back [to Germany] and said, 'It's time
to make music that's really authentic.' I was
starting a project called Rammstein to really
try to make German music." He invited Till
Lindemann, a basket weaver and drummer for
the band First Arsch, to join the project as
a vocalist. The four entered a contest for
new bands and won, attracting the interest of
Paul H. Landers, who knew them all and
decided to join the band. Christian "Flake"
Lorenz was the last member to join; he had
played with Landers before in the band
Feeling B and was initially reluctant to come
on board, but was eventually persuaded to
join. Their first album was released a year
later. They have been nominated for two Best
Metal Performance Grammy Awards: in 1999 with
the song "Du hast" and in 2005 with the song
"Mein Teil".
Although Rammstein is often generalized as
industrial rock, its music spans a variety of
related styles, including hard rock and heavy
metal. The band was strongly influenced by
Laibach, a Slovenian neo-classical and
industrial group. Other influences include
DAF (Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft),
Oomph! and Ministry, but the contrast between
individual songs such as "Bestrafe mich",
"Ohne dich" and "Te quiero puta!" makes the
band difficult to classify.
Rammstein's style has tended to divide
critics, some of whom have responded with
memorably dismissive comments. Jam Showbiz
(April 2001) described Mutter as "music to
invade Poland to." New Zealand's Southland
Times (Dec. 17, 1999) suggested that Till
Lindemann's "booming, sub-sonic voice" would
send "the peasants fleeing into their barns
and bolting their doors." The New York Times
(Jan. 9, 2005) commented that on the stage,
"Mr. Lindemann gave off an air of such brute
masculinity and barely contained violence
that it seemed that he could have reached
into the crowd, snatched up a fan, and bitten
off his head." Other critics have been more
positive. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All
Music Guide commented that "their blend of
industrial noise, grinding metal guitars, and
operatic vocals is staggeringly powerful"[2].
"We just push boundaries," said Till
Lindemann in an interview with rock magazine
Kerrang!. "We can't help it if people don't
like those boundaries being pushed."
Rammstein has achieved particular fame (not
to mention notoriety) for its hugely
over-the-top stage show, using so many
pyrotechnics that fans eventually coined the
motto "Other bands play, Rammstein burns!" (a
quip at Manowar's song "Kings of Metal",
which states, "other bands play, Manowar
kill").
The heat is so intense that on occasion,
people have been carried out of Rammstein
concerts suffering from heat exhaustion, and
lighting gantries have been seen glowing
red-hot from repeated fireball hits. The
variety of the pyrotechnics can be seen in a
recent concert playlist, which includes such
items as "Lycopodium Masks", "Glitterburst
Truss", "Pyrostrobes", "Comets", "Flash
Trays" and "Mortar Hits
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