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Trivia

  • Along with Marilyn Manson, Rammstein were blamed for inspiring the Columbine Shootings.
  • "Mein Teil" is inspired by Internet cannibal Armin Meiwes.
  • Herzeleid.com is the only website which has permission to legally have Rammstein bootlegs online for download.
  • Rammstein never released their video for the song 'Das Modell' (The Model), because it had strange similarities with the death of Lady Diana Spencer.
  • Christoph Schneider, percussionist for band Rammstein, refuses to use any other than Meinl cymbals.
  • The Rammstein tour bus is a shade of purple, a cross between maude and magenta.
  • The cover art for the album "Sehnsucht" (Longing) often shows Cristoph Schneider on the front, with his head strapped into some kind of a torture device. The booklet contains 5 seperate pictures, one for each remaining member of the band.
  • Rammstein won an American Gold Award in 1998, for going gold in the States.
  • The 1999 Rammstein video for 'Stripped' caused much controvery, due to the clips taken from known video Nazi-propagandist Leni Reifenstahl's Olympia 1: Teil - Fest der Völker (The Festival of Peoples). The film itself recreated the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The music video for 'Stripped' depicted Rammstein as being fascist sympathizers, due to the dark and militaristic imagery, including the clips from Olympia.
  • Movie director David Lynch helped Rammstein out in America, and their popularity can be attributed to David. In his movie The Lost Highway, David used songs 'Rammstein' and 'Heirate Mich' (Marry Me), which introduced Rammstein to American audiences.
  • Till Lindemann's ex-wife had a baby with Richard Kruspe, named Khira Li Lindemann. Khira is fourteen this year, and has Till's last name because Till's ex-wife kept the Lindemann name as her own.
  • In June of 1999, Till Lindemann and Christian Lorenz were arrested after a performance in Massachusetts, US. The pair were performing lewd and lascivious behaviour during the song 'Bück dich' (Bend Over). The act in question had previously gone unnoticed in several other US shows.
  • Cristoph Schneider only plays Tama drums.
  • Till Lindemann lends his talents to the band The Puhdys, for the song 'Wut Will Nicht Sterben' (Fury Wanting Not to Die).
  • Rammstein has been nominated for two Best Metal Performance Grammy Awards; in 1999 for the song 'Du Hast' and in 2005 for 'Mein Teil'.
  • After the 2004 album "Reise, Reise", Rammstein rose to the rank of the most successful German-language band of all time, internationally.
  • Rammstein has sold over 10 million records across the globe, even though the majority of their work is in German.
  • Rammstein is the band performing for the first ten minutes of the Vin Diesel movie xXx. They are playing the song 'Feur Frei', which translates to 'Fire At Will'.
  • The band name Rammstein is taken from a western German town named Ramstein, where an airshow disaster took place in 1988.
  • The literal English translation of "Rammstein" comes from the German for a 'ramming stone' or 'a battering ram'.

Quotes

  • Christian Lorenz: Our style came out of knowing exactly what we didn't want, we didn't want to make American ftink music, or punk. That's something we couldn't do at all. We realised we could only make the music we make.

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