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First of all, I wanna take ahead, that you won't find any of my pics, thank to the tight photo agreement of Rammstein. Because this one tells photographers, not to publish their pics in any other publications, then the one's named in the contract. But don't worry, you can view some of my shots. here - here - here - here - here - here - here - here - here - here - here - here And yet another live review will be printed in Break Out next issue of Break Out Magazine. |
I
remember very well, back in 1995, where I was sitting with the complete
Rammstein Band around one table for an interview in a very simple
restaurant in a suburb of Munich. And even back then, these guys lead by
Till Lindemann and Kruspe and Co. did have a huge ego, although
thier debut album 'Herzeleid' had just been released and their
popularity just started to evolve. At that point it was still possible
to lead a "normal" interview with this band (shame I didn't
take any pics) - Anyway most of you know the rest of the story 'till
this very day. And now 14 years later, - an interview like tho one I did
back then, would be simply impossible. If you're luck enough to get one
at all, then only with one of the guys, and you must also sign a
contract about - not to ask this or that one, according to reports. Yeah
well, times change, don't they?! And everything stands and falls with
financiall power. I think,
Rammstein did not suffer any disadvantage because of the cencored record.
But they are forced to change the lyrics of this song, when performed
live in Germany. In Austria and Switzerland they don't bother... Support comes from norwegian band Combichrist, who are appearing in a Zombie mascarade playing a mixture of Teccno and Hardcore Metal. With 2 drumkits, very less light and only a small bit of the stage, these scandinavians rather seems like a bunch of crazy undeads, constantly moving and trying to push up the 12.000 and Rammstein Fans only - to motivate. I don't have to say much more about that, because of first of all - they couldn't manage to heat the crowd up and second their set has not been very much impressing either. Whoever still wants to know about this band go to http://www.combichrist.com/ Rammstein open their set with an imaginary concrete wall (the curtain) where the musicians cut a hole with axes and in the middle it is even burned through out. And then a show starts, which is beyond every dimension. The flames let us photographers sweat, thanks to the heat. And I'm pretty much surprised about the fact, that Munich's authorities didn't complain about it, as they are known to be very sensible about pyroshows. But not in this case, and it seems that this reign of fire and many explosions, which torture our ears, go very well down at the audiance. One thing I gotta give these musicians up there. They all own a very special aura. Most of all, when singer Till Lindemann performs the first song with an imaginary fire in his mouth. At the cencored song he gets lifted up in the air and spills some lava flow down into the bath tub, where keyboarder flake has been thrown in before... And at the song 'Benzin' a burning stuntman runs across the stage, 'till he finally gets released from the flames. 'Pussy' doesn't show any porno elements, but therefore a huge tornado of confetti flakes. And there are many other inputs and show elements we get offered during this gig. Below underneath the setlist you find a clip, showing all these highpoints of the Rammstein Show.
And at the
final Song
‚Engel’, singerTill Lindeman got burning wings. The average
enthusiasm almost gets outta hand at the audiance. |