Rammstein Argentina 11/27

Blessed by Fire

Till Lindemann and his summoned on Saturday to more than 30,000 people in Avellaneda. No screens, very dark, flames, pyrotechnics and a crushing sound. So the trick of setting fire to a fan on stage!

Racing around were rows and rows of faithful worshipers of black. Corsets, T-shirts and fishnet stockings, vinyl pants, borcegos, hair dyed and many, many, Rammstein T-shirts.

The Avellaneda cylinder with a long bleeding rocker in tow (Redonditos in 1998) and massive crib sheet calls religious devotion and loud sounds brought together on Saturday with the return of Rammstein, devoted to the fire, explosive pyrotechnics. And the controversy.

Before the Germans, as an appetizer looming Bloodparade local credit. The electro-rock group played six songs in half an hour (all from their latest album State of Trance) where the singer Brenda Cuesta evening shook the academic power and sound more than acceptable for a support band.

Download a giant curtain and begins waiting for the arrival of Rammstein, an hour and twenty minutes where several of which were settled into the stalls or those who populate the field already felt that we had to sharpen the eye. It would be a show without screens (at the request of the band) to not be distracted from the visual display of the sextet Germany. A haze hovers between the sweaty mass when the pressurized water cooling.

Turn off the lights and light up the screens of their phones. Sounds like the intro and the black curtain falls reveals a giant German flag, a prelude to the onset of detonation and Rammler, first track of their brand new Für Alle Da ist Liebe. Eyes are riveted on him, the burly singer Till Lindemann who wears black overalls and an apron (beef type) red leather combined "? with red feathers around the neck. And the first trick of the group comes from the mouth of a singer with such a tiny light bulb, stuck to his palate, which enlightens every intonation.

The mass cry Ramm-stein! intimidated by the threatening clouds that were in the storm elsewhere. The stage-grave (a big black box), hidden flames, explosions and lights that seem frantic track military targets. In Bückstabü Till now shows his characteristic pose stooping forward and sticking with his fist right thigh. Keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz moves awkwardly from his suit while the two guitar players mirroring (Paul Landers and Richard Kruspe) are fixed, flanking Lindemann, while watching the mass robotically.

The minute of the third theme (Waidmanns Hail) an assistant enters the stage, speaks to the ear Till and he stops singing and goes from the stage. Thus began one of the tense moments of the show. Maladjustment "sound (it was several issues until settled)? Problems with the fireworks? Any wounded?. No. The fence on the right side moved by the pressure of the people, forcing it to stop the show about 15 minutes until the problem was solved.

This added to the cry of "The Light, The Light!" -To turn off some sectors of the stadium were lit, and the goals that got him to Banfield Racing that night (and were celebrated in the stadium before the show) was an unusual mix for this type of event. The darkness that was claimed was an accomplice to many who were in one of the popular low, go out there and run into some sectors while the audience cheered him with applause (¿?).

Returning to the show, the stage turns red to get the album Mutter with Feuer Frei and masks, flamethrowers on the scene. The guitar players point to each other to Till's voice while expanding your tongue fluttering to the public. Lindemann kneels before the firing battery and an impressive marks the end of the topic. A vulgar display of power (visual and audible) to be repeated with Mein Teil when Lindemann-clad like a mad and bloody butcher-light a giant pot with a flamethrower while the keyboard down with a suit that flashes and fireworks from the stage falls and follows him, forcing him to walk the stage from end to end. Rammstein is a band that calculates mm detonations and explosions, leaving nothing to chance. "We train for this show after show with special effects engineers, tell us Lindemann hours later.

Another of the highlights of the show was when Benzin (in the middle of tongues of flame coming from the stage) Till is a supplier of gasoline to a fire breather and a false-fan gets on the stage waving their arms and cheering. Lindemann so burned by "error" while an assistant follows him and tries to blow with some blankets. If not before you saw on You Tube remains in doubt. Accident? "Morbid?

Du Hast (the most chanted in the evening) two pyrotechnic comets are ejected from the stage and burst against the side towers of sound. Bounces back to collapse on top of the main structure. More broadly than the night effects, comparable with confetti (confetti) coming out of a hose placed in the crotch of musicians (see list of issues and effects of each) to the controversial and censored subject Pussy. Till says in Spanish, "Hands up" and people obey mass. Then would the first break (scheduled) in the evening after thirteen songs stick and stick.

For the encore looms Sonne (with blasts from the pit of photographers inclusive), Haifisch (Shark) in which no utiizaron the raft on which bassist Olivier navigate among the public. And in the mesmerizing Ich Will (the best of the night) where they throw the house out the window with the firing of 16 guns and a large explosion at the height of the battery. The sound did not lower its level throughout the show.

The second part of the encore comes with surprise when the first riff sounds your dir Ich Veh's latest album and several comets light up the stage altogether. A flash. The theme is interrupted ("was planned, just do the first part," he said later the Yes guitarist Paul Landers) and the catchy hooks touch I want you whore (Rosenrot disk) with Till singing in Castilian dragging R with that mark the so personally. The band says goodbye, and while they did a set with eight songs from his latest album and only one (Du Hast) the successful Sensucht not heard many complaints about the lack of such classics as Muter, Engel, Sensucht, Mich. Bestrafe Rise Rise or Amerika.

The audio-visual demolition which succumbed Racing for two hours left exhausted breath to the complaint. And the musicians were impressed by the national allegiance. "I expected no more than 15,000 people. They are very crazy. In a year and a half back," revealed the singer to Yes. Hopefully.

Kings of Leon to play Rock Werchter 2011

American rock giants Kings of Leon and electronic duo The Chemical Brothers are the first artists to be added to the line-up of Rock Werchter 2011, running from 30 June - 3 July in Werchter, Belgium.

Tickets for the festival, which last year hosted headline sets from Pearl Jam, Rammstein and Green Day, go on sale on 4 December.

Rock Werchter is one of the largest rock music festivals in Europe, hosting 80,000 guests for four days of entertainment from some of the biggest acts in the world.

Rammstein and the language of anger

November 22, 2010

Will they bring the famous supersized phallic whatchamacallit for their stage show? That is the first question which springs to mind on hearing the announcement that Rammstein are booked to perform in South Africa in Feberury 2011.

This will be the first time that the world’s most famous industrial metal band, will play in South Africa. Known for their hugely over the top stage shows peppered with pyrotechnics and special effects, Rammstein have stuck true to their very heavy, very German sound.

However, this has not diminished their commercial success. They have sold over 15 million records worldwide, including multiple Gold albums and DVD releases in South Africa.”


According to the press release sent out by Big Concerts, bass guitarist Oliver Riedel once commented that the “German language suits heavy metal music. French might be the language of love, but Germ is the language of anger.” Pretty cool, huh?

One thing for sure, the Rammstein shows will not be for sissies. So dust off your Docs, squeeze into your patent leather corsets and reach for the purple lipstick and black eye liner. Its gonna get ugly!

They play Grand Arena, Grandwest Cape Town on 9 February and Coca Cola Dome on 11 February.

Rammstein to take the love tour to South Africa

RAMMSTEIN will be touring South Africa for the first time ever in February 2011. They will be performing on 9th February at the Grand Arena in Cape Town and on the 11th February at the Coca-Cola Dome Johannesburg

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Tickets will go on sale on monday 09am (LT). Links to purchase tickets you will find here.

Rammstein return to the studio

Rammstein has taken a bit of time off between touring to enter a studio in Berlin. The band issued the following update today:

Using the remaining time between the last festival and the upcoming South American tour (25. November), the band has visited a studio on the outskirts of Berlin in the past week. This week the light and sound rehearsals for the upcoming shows start again.

Rammstein will return to the U.S. on December 11 for the first time in nearly 10 years for a sold out show at Madison Square Garden.

After New York Sell out, Rammstein May Tour U.S.

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - German goth/industrial band Rammstein has dreamed of playing Madison Square Garden for years.
But considering that the band hasn't performed in the United States since 2001 -- and that it's completely under the radar of the mainstream concert business -- conventional wisdom would say that landing a date at the storied arena would be one hell of a long shot.
Or maybe not. Not only is Rammstein booked for a December 11 show at the New York venue, the act sold out in about 30 minutes.
Rammstein will also play two sold-out nights December 6-7 at the 20,000-seat Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City before jetting up to Montreal for a December 9 gig at the 21,000-seat Center Bell hockey arena. It will also headline the annual Big Day Out festival in Australia in January.
The sellout at the Garden makes the prospect of a proper U.S. tour more intriguing, says Michael Arfin, the band's U.S. booking agent.
"The goal was to see what kind of demand there really is," he says. "It has been made really clear to us that thousands of people were unable to get tickets, and it's great to see that there is a market here for the band, and our goal is to build that."
Rammstein's biggest album here, 1998's "Sehnsucht," has sold 1.2 million units to date, while its last album, 2009's "Liebe Ist Fuer Alle Da," debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 93,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Although Arfin initially thought a Garden show was beyond Rammstein's reach, he came around after watching the band succeed in other parts of the world. "There seems to be an underground growth here, the mystique grew quite a bit," he says. "The longer they were away, the more popular they became, and the more demand was created."
The band, which is known for its elaborate stage sets and pyrotechnics, went all in.
"One of the most interesting aspects about this is these guys themselves were willing to risk an incredible amount of money to bring 10 semis of gear over here for one show to try to present this production to the American audience," Arfin says. "They risked it, put it all on the line to try to do this, and we all succeeded."