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Post by TJ on Dec 16, 2003 11:12:22 GMT -5
Thread started on: May 23rd, 2003, 10:41pm By: TJThe German Band 
(Also Known As R+)
Is A Powerful German Dance/Industrio-Metal Band.
They Describe Themselves As 'TANZ-METAL',
Meaning Dance/Metal.
This Is Very True But A Little Misleading.
Since Dance Is Only A Small Element Of Their Work!MINI  TILL LINDEMANN LEAD VOCALIST
Birthdate: Jan. 4th, 1963.
Previous Bands: First Arsch
Previous Job: Basket weaver  RICHARD Z. KRUSPELEAD GUITARISTBirthdate: June 24th, 1967.Previous Bands: Orgasm Death Gimmicks Previous Job: Salesman CHRISTOPH "DOOM" SCHNEIDER DRUMMER
Birthdate: May 11th, 1966.
Previous Bands: Die Firma
Previous Job: Telephone installation
PAUL LANDERS GUITARIST
Birthdate: Dec. 9th, 1964.
Previous Bands: Feeling B
Previous Job: Boiler OLIVER "OLI" RIEDEL BASSIST
Birthdate: April 11th, 1971.
Previous Bands: The Inchtabokatables
Previous Job: Plasterer  CHRISTIAN 'FLAKE' LORENZKEYBOARDISTBirthdate: Nov. 6th, 1966. Previous Bands: Feeling BPrevious Job: ToolmakerSorry, This Is Only A Mini-Bio of Rammstein!
When I Gather More Info...
I'll Post More About The Band! 
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Post by TJ on Dec 16, 2003 11:13:39 GMT -5
« Reply #1 on: Jun 9th, 2003, 10:26am »[glow=LimeGreen,4,500]BIOGRAPHY OF:[/glow]  
As It Happens, Either Would Be Appropriate. The Relentless Tanzmetal As There Sound Is Referred To In Europe...Between Dance - Metal Pulse Of The Bands Sound & The Unparalleled Pyromania Of Its Live Shows Have Accounted In Equal Measure To Rammstein's Meteoric Rise To Fame In Its Native Germany!
Formed In 1993 By An Assemblage Of Factory-Weary Proletarians Raised In East Berlin & The More Remote
Schwerin! Rammstein Wasted No Time In Crafting A Distinctive Voice: The Un-Erring Utilitarian Synchronicity Of Richard Kruspe & Paul Landers! Guitars Locked With The Bolt-Tight Rythmic Backbone Of Bassist Oliver Riedel & Drummer Christoph Schneider, Providing An Unshakable Foundation. The Crowning Touches That Distinguished Rammstein! If Anyone It Was The Keyboards Of Flake (Pronounced Flah-Keh) & The Booming Basso Profundo Poetics Of One-Time Olympic Swimmer Till Lindemann. Our Style Came Out Of Knowing Exactly What We Didn't Want, Explains Flake.
We Didn't Want To Make An American Funk Or Punk Music! That's Something We Couldn't & Wouldn't Do At All!
We Realised We Could Only Make The Music We Make!
Word Of Rammstein's, Horror Romanticist, Blend Of Theater & Music Spread Like Wildfire!
Litterly: Lindemann Would Sing Entire Songs Engulfed In Flame From Head To Toe. This Obsession With Fire Meshed Perfectly With The Bands Driving Operatic Melodies & Dramatically Intoned Tales Of Lost Love & Singing, Tragedy, Deviancenging, Dominance & Submission! The Main Thing Is Love In All Its Shapes &
Variations, Countered Till Lindemann.
Flake Adds, They Are Completely Normal, Romantic Lyrics. This Was Naturally To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt! Coming From A Man Who Set Himself On Fire Nightly & The Colleague Wno'd Break Fluorescent Lighting Tubes Over His Bare Chest. However, A Passage From Any Number of Rammstein Lyrics Would Bare Out, Lindemann Claims! Take For Instance, This Rough Translation Of A Snippet From The Title Track Of Rammstein's 1995 Debut - Herzeleid (Heartache)
?Protect one another from heartachelfor short is the time you will have togetherIFor although it may be many yearslit will someday seem to have passed like minutes...? (Forgive the somewhat rusty translation). On some level, it all struck a primal and resounding chord with the German populace. Herzeleld built relentlessly on the groundswell created by the band?s live reputation, ultimately providing bonafide entry into the European mainstream. Scaling the heights of the German charts (and remaining there until the release of the second Rammstein LP some two years later), the album inadvertently introduced the band to the world outside the Germany/Switzerland/Austria region: When it came time to make a Rammstein video, the band innocently sent copies of Herzeleid to its favorite filmmakers. One responded: David Lynch. While Lynch replied that he was too busy working on Lost Hif4h@a to direct a Rammstein video, he had become so enamored with the record that he eventually included two songs ftom Herzeleid in the film and soundtrack: ?Rammstein? and ?Heirate Mich? (or ?Marry Me?).
Herzeleid?s increasing success and visibility did not come without a measure of controversy, specifically accusations of Nazism and fascism leveled at Rammstein by the German media. The origin of these allegations is unclear. Some said Herzeleid?s cover art- the six members of Rammstein shirtless, buff and shiny against a backdrop of giant yellow flowers-suggested the band members as progenitors of a new master race. ?That?s complete rubbish,? says Flake. ?It?s just a photo.? Stranger still, others decried a similarity between Lindemann?s rolling r?s and Adolf Hitler?s diction (!). Whatever. The fact remains that the band has never penned a political lyric and continues to laugh off such conjecture. ?If we were Spanish,? says Landers, ?Then we wouldn?t have to deal with this hassle. If some of the journalists want to stick us in the Nazi corner, we can?t help it. It?s the same they did with Kraftwerk twenty years ago...?
As Rammstein?s second album, Sehnsucht (or ?Longing?), was released, the band was headlining throughout Europe to crowds of 10,000 to 30,000. Sehnsucht entered the German charts at #1 immediately upon its August release, and came very close to doing to the same in Austria and Switzerland. Within weeks, entries on other countries? charts had Sehnsucht rubbing elbows with Prodigy, Radiohead and the Rolling Stones on Billboard?s cumulative Eurochart.
By the time you read this, Sehnsucht will have gone double-platinum in Germany, platinum in Switzerland, gold in Austria, and will be ascending the top 100 of Finland, Sweden and Hungary. Rammstein will have also completed a debut U.S. mini-tour, introducing a scaled down version of its pyro-psycho pastiche to a routing suspiciously similar to the Sex Pistols? first American jaunt: Tulsa OK, Texas ... concluding not in San Francisco, but in Los Angeles, where the band blew away a capacity crowd of KMFDM and Lords Of Acid fans (Literally and figuratively; there were quite a few explosions lighting up the Hollywood Palladium that night). What?s more, this landmark performance had Rammstein merchandise flying out the door-no mean feat for the opening act on a three-band bill- and U.S. rock luminaries including members of the Foo Fighters and Afghan Whigs re-routing their travel itineraries to catch the band?s L.A. debut.
All this and Rammstein has yet to release a record in the U.S. Sehnsucht will be issued Stateside by February 1998 on Slash Records. Whether or not the drum ?n?bass interludes of the title track, the haunting whistling and eerie chil(Iren?s choir of the German #1 single ?Engel? (?Angel?), or the riff-driven techno-metal of ?Du Hast? (?You Do Not Like? [ Du Hast translates to "You have" RNW Editor] -also a top 10 hit in Germany) will resonate with an American audience is anyone?s guess. One thing, however, is certain: Rammstein will not compromise. Fire codes will be subverted, lyrics will remain in German, videos will continue to push the envelope. Otherwise, it just wouldn?t be Rammstein. [glow=LimeGreen,4,500]We Can't Help
The Way We Are,
Says Lindemann.
Or As Landers
So Succently Puts It:
Rammstein Is Rammstein.[/glow]I'll Finish Fixing This Post In Due Time !
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Post by TJ on Dec 16, 2003 11:34:10 GMT -5
[glow=Yellow,4,500]The Story[/glow] Rammstein was started by Richard Z. Kruspe-Bernstein. In 1989 he escaped from East Germany over the border between Austria and Hungary. He eventually ended up in West Berlin and started a band in 1993 (Orgasm Death Gimmicks). At that time he was very influenced by American music. After the wall came down, he moved back home to Schwerin where Till Lindemann worked as a basket weaver and played drums in the band First Arsch.
At this time, Richard lived with Oliver Riedel (of the band The Inchtabokatables) and Christoph Doom Schneider (of Die Firma). Richard realized that the music he had previously made was not right for him. He envisioned something with machines and hard guitars together. The three started working together on a new project.
Richard soon found it hard to write music and lyrics at the same time. He got Till to join them as he had often heard him singing while working. A contest for new bands was announced and the prize was studio time. The four of them recorded the first Rammstein demo and won. Paul Landers knew them all and wanted to know what they were doing. After listening, he agreed to join. At this point, all they needed for the machine-sound was a keyboarder. They tried to get Christian "Flake" Lorenz to join, as he had played with Paul before in the band Feeling B. Flake was not entirely thrilled with the idea at first and didn't want to join for a long time. But, he eventually agreed.
About the time the band was formed, they all had relationship problems which provided the foundation for their debut album Herzeleid (Heartache) in 1995. Since then, they have reached gold and platinum status for their music and have become Germany's number one music export.[glow=Gold,4,500]The Name[/glow] Three Italian air force jets collided on August 28, 1988 at an air show at the US airbase in Ramstein, Germany. About 40 spectators died in the first minutes and several hundred were injured. In the next two months, the death toll rose to 69. In short, it was a disaster.
The name was all over the media at the time and just got stuck in their heads. They changed it from Ramstein (with one M) to Rammstein (with two). It is not a real German word, but literally means "Ram-stone". They chose it to provoke and because the meaning seemed to fit their music. Their first song, "Rammstein" was about this tragedy.
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