History Music / Rammstein

* ''TBA'' (confirmed for spring 2019)

Rammstein is a six-man band from Germany. They were formed in 1994 after recent West German-Escapee Richard Z. Kruspe wanted to make music that mixed musical grooves with machine-like sound, which they'd later describe as self "Tanz-Metall"[[note]]dance metal[[/note]], and gathered the rest of the group to bring it about. They take their name from the Ramstein airshow disaster of 1988, adding an extra 'm' ''by mistake'', though the band insists they took the name for a kind of door-knocker with a similar name once they got popular. They got their first real taste of popularity in 1997, when a couple of their songs were featured in a Neo-Noir film, and the smash hit song ''Du Hast''. They got an even bigger boost in popularity (and money), when they were prominently featured in the Vin Diesel movie [[Film/XxX XXX]] at the beginning of the film.

** One possible interpretation of the song "Adios", where the narrator talks about a man injecting himself 'music' as a drug and overdosing.

** "Tier" had father/daughter rape, The Live aus Berlin features [[spoiler:Richard's daughter Khira Li Lindemann (her mother is Till's ex-wife, who kept his name)]] as the child in the cage.

** "Benzin" is, in many ways, a love song to fire and destruction. Till wrote it after watching the movie "Love Liza".
---> "I really just watched this movie one day, it was called 'Love Liza'. It's the story of a guy who loses his wife and his job and slowly gets addicted to gasoline. He goes to gas stations and sniffs on the gas pumps. It's a kind of tragic comedy. Many films have been made about drug addiction, but never about a gasoline-sniffer. I think that was the starting point of this song."
----->----- Till in an interview to the French magazine ''RockMag''
** As pyrotechniques have ''always'' been part of the band's live setup, Till has described their live shows as "just a more intense David Copperfield show".

** The softer, piano-based version of "Mein Herz Brennt" released in 2012, 11 years after the original. The band later released a music book and accompanying CD of instrumental piano arrangements of their songs called 'Klavier' (Piano).

** Many demo tracks from the ''Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da'' sessions leaked which suggest the band had written backing tracks first and was trying out which lyrics worked best with the music. Examples include "Panterra" (The instrumental of "Gib Mir Deine Augen" with the lyrics from "Pussy") and "Augen Zu" (the instrumental of "Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da" with some of the lyrics from "Wiener Blut").
** Before ''Sehnsucht'' came out, the band already used the wail used as a sample in the song as their intro to ''Asche Zu Asche'' during live shows. Nowadays, ''Sehnsucht'' and ''Asche zu Asche'' are almost always played back to back.

* PedophilePriest: Hallelujah. Till's character in Rosenrot is an ephebophile priest.

* {{Ruritania}} The Rosenrot video takes place hre.

* EasterEgg: The voice clip hidden either in the pregap of ''Reise, Reise'' for European pressings or at the start of the song for the US pressings. The clip itself is the last 38 seconds of the cockpit voice recording from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAL123 JAL123 disaster of 1985]]. Due to it being the ''deadliest single aircraft incident in history'', said easter egg was removed from Japanese pressings and later US pressings.
** The Japanese version of Mutter has Halleluja as an unlisted hidden track.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The band wanted a video to promote their first song "Rammstein", and out of sheer tenacity, decided to ask Creator/DavidLynch to produce the video. They sent him a cassette of the Herzeleid album along with some promo material, not expecting him to reply. To their surprise, he not only loved the album, but asked them to allow him to use some of the songs in his movie ''Film/LostHighway'' (which they agreed to). The resultant attention from this led to the band doing the unthinkable of being a German language band with a sizable US following. Numerous musicians raved about the band, including Music/{{Korn}}, who invited Rammstein to appear on their Family Values tour in 1998. During this time period, Rammstein even recorded some material in English for the US market, these being their cover of Depeche Mode's "Stripped" and English versions of "Engel" (Angel) and "Du Hast" (You Hate). Rammstein's popularity grew with the NuMetal movement, with their famously theatrical live shows attracting attention, until reaching huge proportions with the Mutter album in 2001. The appearance of the band and use of "Feuer Frei" in the well-known Creator/VinDiesel movie "XXX" sealed the deal. Thanks to these business decisions, they are one of the most successful metal bands on the planet despite many of their fans not speaking German.

->''"Leiht euer Ohr einer Legende."''[[note]]Lend your ears to a legend.[[/note]]

* IfItBleedsItLeads: [[{{Anvilicious}} Satirized unsubtly]] in "Ich Will" video, in which the band members play [[BankRobbery bank robbers]] who are out not for money, but for media attention -- and even get a Golden Camera award after being arrested. The way journalists and cameramen [[MediaScrum assault them with questions as if they were celebreties or politicians]] is rather unsettling, and it really makes you think about how the media, intentionally or not, turns criminals into celebrities.

Rammstein is a six-man band from Germany. They make self-described "Tanz-Metall": dance metal, though their actual style has them as the [[TropeCodifier codifiers]] of Neue Deutsche Härte, a form of industrial metal. They take their name from the Ramstein airshow disaster of 1988, adding an extra 'm' ''by mistake''. The band consists of:

Discography as of 2017:

Videography:

!The band has also helped [[TropeNamer named the following tropes]]:

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Paraphrased from a line of the song "Amerika". Richard ''did'' live in America, specifically New York City. Have you ever heard him sing for Emigrate? He even sounds American. Just a wee bit'a irony.

* TrueCompanions: The band has repeatedly stated that if any of its members were to leave, the entire band would quit. They have had the same lineup since they first began in 1994.

* LastNoteNightmare: "Stein um Stein".

* OminousMusicBoxTune: "Spieluhr". (The title translates to "Music Box", as well.)

** Many demo tracks from the ''Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da'' sessions leaked which suggest the band had written backing tracks first and was trying out which lyrics worked best with the music. Examples include "Panterra" (The instrumental of "Gib Mir Deine Augen" with the lyrics from "Pussy") and "Augen Zu" (the instrumental of "Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da" with some of the lyrics from "Wiener Blut")

* SopranoAndGravel: "Engel", "Nebel" (where they're performed by Christiane "Bobo" Herbold), "Moskau", to some extent "Spieluhr" (which features vocals from [[RealLifeRelative Khira Li, Richard's daughter]]), and "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir (Don't Die Before I Do)" (featuring vocals from Sharleen Spiteri of Texas, though the original German version was performed by Bobo). Also "Halleluja", the hidden track from ''Mutter''.

* BasedOnATrueStory: "Rammstein" (the song), "Mein Teil", "Wiener Blut" and "Donaukinder" were all based on true events:

* FiveBadBand:
** TheBigBad: Richard
** TheDragon: Till
** TheEvilGenius: Paul
** TheBrute: Schneider
** TheDarkChick: Oliver
** TheSixthRanger: Flake

** "Halleluja", "Liese", "Tier, and "Spiel Mit Mir" discuss [[FromBadToWorse child rape]] or sexual abuse.

* DrivenToSuicide: The song "Spring", where a man gets on to a bridge just to enjoy the view, but a crowd forms eager to see him jump. [[spoiler:He gets pushed off.]]

** "Halleluja", "Liese" and "Spiel Mit Mir" discuss [[FromBadToWorse child rape]] or sexual abuse.

* ''TBA'' (Confirmed for fall 2018), as Till's band for his solo project let it slip that Rammstein will be working on the next album soon and made a point of saying it usually takes them 2 years.

* IndustrialMetal: (Tanz Metall).

----> Alle Nägel stehen stramm[[note]]All nails stick tight[[/note]]

** "Halleluja", "Liese" and "Spiel Mit Mir" discuss [[FromBadToWorse ''child'' rape]] or sexual abuse.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Varies wildly up and down the scale, from 1 or 2 (e.g. "Ein Lied") up to 7 or 8 (e.g "Mein Teil"), and everything in between. They usually reside at level 6, though.

* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Bück Dich", "Ich tu dir weh" (whose lyrics are so graphic it got ''Liebe ist für alle da'' put on the Index for a short while) and the unreleased "Feuerräder".

* PowerBallad: "Ohne Dich", "Amour", "Roter Sand", "Nebel", "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" and "Frühling in Paris", amongst other examples.

** Also, from "Zwitter". ''Nobody'' can belt out "wenn einer zu mir 'FICK DICH' SAGT!"[[note]]"When someone tells me to go fuck myself!"[[/note]] quite like Till Lindemann can.

* AllGermansAreNazis: The band wrote "Links 2-3-4" as their counterargument to this accusation. They've even said in interviews that they hate Nazis as well. In addition, actually paying attention to their lyrics reveal that none of their songs contain any fascist or Nazi-sympathizing lyrics, but try telling certain critics that. "Links" is German for "Left", and it's about their left-wing status, and how awesome it is to be left-wing. It's intentionally based on a German marching song, because they wanted to make the point that a song can sound militaristic without being militaristic.
** In addition, the song it's intentionally based on is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTM9J1PX4CI the quasi-official anthem of German communism]].

* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: The sun shining is referenced in some way in "Rammstein", "Engel", "Küss Mich (Fellfrosch)", "Mein Herz Brennt", "Sonne", "Mutter", "Morgenstern", "Mann Gegen Mann" and "Hilf Mir." ''Liebe Ist Für Alle Da'' is the only album where this motif does not come up.

* BasedOnATrueStory: "Rammstein" (the song), "Mein Teil", "Wiener Blut" and "Donaukinder" were all based on true events.

* BilingualBonus: "Moskau" has parts sung in Russian; "Amerika" and "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" have parts sung in English, while "Pussy" is in straight English apart from [[InvokedTrope invoked]] GratuitousGerman; there're also English versions of "Du Hast", "Engel" and "Amerika" among the singles; "Amour" and "Frühling in Paris" have some parts sung in French; and "Te Quiero Puta!" is sung entirely in Spanish. "Mein Teil" has the occasional moment where he'll say "Yeah this is mein teil" instead of the usual "Es ist mein teil" There is also, an astounding amount of wordplay in their songs, just in general. Till is fairly well qualified for the title of PungeonMaster. "Mein Land" is pretty much the only song whose name ''anyone'' can guess the English translation.
** The booklet for Herzeleid has the lyrics for "Das Alte Leid", "Heirate Mich" and "Herzeleid" written in French whilst all the others are in their original German. It has been said this was to get "Heirate Mich"'s gruesome lyrics about necrophilia past the German censors, but nobody knows for sure.

* BookEnds : ''Herzeleid'' begins with "Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen?" and ends with "Rammstein", both of which feature repeated chants of "Rammstein" for their choruses.
* BrotherSisterIncest: "Liese". Hinted at in "Klavier" and "Laichzeit".

* CloningBlues: "Mutter", sung from the perspective of a clone lamenting its existence, having never felt love or had a home.

* CutSong: The middle six songs on the "Rosenrot" album, "Rosenrot" through to "Hilf Mir", had all been cut songs from "Reise Reise". There is one more outtake from those sessions, "Eisenmann", which has leaked online. The remaining five tracks on "Rosenrot" were new at the time.

** One possible interpretation of the song "Adios", where the narrator talks about a man injecting himself music as a drug and overdosing.

* EgomaniacHunter: "Waidmann's Heil", using hunting as a metaphor for sex [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence with bonus implications of rape.]]

** "Seemann" hints at this, overall being an incredibly sad song sung in a weak, but desperate voice:
----> Am Ende bleib' ich doch alleine[[note]]In the end, I remain alone[[/note]]

* MagicRealism: "Dalai Lama" is a modern reworking of [[Literature/TheErlking "Der Erlkönig"]] by Goethe.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Often gets as high as a 10-11, with considerable gusto.

* ParentalAbandonment: "Mutter". This song was supposedly based on the band members' own relationships to their mothers.

* ProductionForeshadowing: The dramatic, orchestrated ballad "Seemann" was at stark contrast with the rest of Rammstein's (predominantly sex-themed techno metal) music at the time of its recording. The song deals with a sailor (literally 'seaman') who misses his lover. After recording ''Sehnsucht'' and ''Mutter'' (two more albums of techno-metal), and leaving a similar ballad "Ohne Dich" off ''Mutter'', the band decided to focus on this dramatic side of the band. This culminated in the album ''Reise Reise'' and its sister album ''Rosenrot'', which are both characterized by themes of lost love and orchestrations. Notably, ''Reise Reise''[='s=] title track is about a storm at sea in which the seamen must fight hard to prevent the ship sinking, and ''Rosenrot''[='s=] cover has a ship on it.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "RAMM! STEIN!"

** "Benzin" is, in many ways, a love song to fire and destruction. It's more surprising that it took them five albums to write it than that it was one of the few songs from ''Rosenrot'' ever played in concert. Some lyrics from "Benzin" were at one point the top quote on the trope page itself.

** "Ohne Dich" was written and recorded in the ''Mutter'' sessions (this version is the Beta Version) and played once live at a fan club show before the band had decided on all the songs for ''Mutter''. It is characterized by loud guitars in the chorus (a somewhat similar effect to "Seemann"). The band decided to not release this version at the time and instead recorded a more orchestral version which was included on ''Reise Reise''. Eventually that version came out as a single and fans were treated to the original ''Mutter'' version as a B-Side.

* StarsAreSouls: [[http://herzeleid.com/en/lyrics/sehnsucht#engel "Engel"]] (Angel) is about this.

-->wird nach dem Tod ein Engel werden[[note]]will become an angel after death[[/note]]
-->den Blick gen Himmel fragst du dann[[note]]you look to the sky and ask[[/note]]

-->kann man uns am Himmel sehn[[note]]can you see us in the sky[[/note]]

* TitleOnlyChorus: "Herzeleid", "Heirate Mich", "Links 2-3-4", "Mutter", "Rein Raus", "Benzin".
* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: The resolution to "Morgenstern". The song is about a woman so ugly that the light won't even shine into her face, so she has to live in hiding during the day. Every morning before dawn, she pleads to the morning star to turn her beautiful. Her lover, however, stays by her side nonetheless and once he sees her in the light of the star, he realizes she's always been beautiful from within.

* WordSaladLyrics: "Ramm 4", the new song played live in 2016, is made by just mixing their older song titles together.

!The band has named the following tropes

* AllGermansAreNazis: The band wrote "Links 2-3-4" as their counterarguement to this accusation. They've even said in interviews that they hate Nazis as well. In addition, actually paying attention to their lyrics reveal that none of their songs contain any fascist or Nazi-sympathizing lyrics, but try telling certain critics that. "Links" is German for "Left", and it's about their left-wing status, and how awesome it is to be left-wing. It's intentionally based on a German marching song, because they wanted to make the point that a song can sound militaristic without being militaristic.

* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: The sun shining is referenced in some way in "Rammstein," "Engel," "Küss Mich (Fellfrosch)," "Mein Herz Brennt," "Sonne," "Mutter," "Morgenstern," "Mann Gegen Mann" and "Hilf Mir." ''Liebe Ist Für Alle Da'' is the only album where this motiv does not come up.

* BasedOnATrueStory: ''Rammstein'' (the song), ''Mein Teil'', ''Wiener Blut'' and ''Donaukinder'' were all based on true events.
** ''Rammstein'' narrates the stark contrast between the beautiful day and the horror of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_airshow_disaster the Ramstein air show disaster]], from which the band took their name, originally being called "Rammstein-Flugschau", adding the second M on accident. A Rammstein is also a medieval door stopper, literally "ramming stone", which could also be a penis joke, which would be in character for the band.
** ''Mein Teil'' tells the story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes Armin Meiwes]], from the viewpoint of his victim.
** ''Wiener Blut'' refers to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case the Fritzl case]].
** ''Donaukinder'' is a song about the aftermath of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill Baia Mare cyanide spill]], considered the greatest ecological disaster in Europe since Chernobyl.

** The onomatopoeic phrase "Bang Bang!" from "Feuer Frei" was intentionally used because it means the same thing in English. I guess in German it would be spelled [[GratuitousGerman "Bäng Bäng"]] though.
* BookEnds : Herzeleid begins with "Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen?" and ends with "Rammstein", both of which feature repeated chants of "Rammstein" for their choruses.

* CueTheSun: [[CaptainObvious Sonne.]]

* EgomaniacHunter: "Waidmann's Heil", using the motive of hunting as a metaphor for sex [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence with bonus implications of rape.]]

* OneWomanWail: The finale to "Sonne." Notable for being a stock sample played on Flake's keyboard instead of an actual, y'know, woman.

* PollutedWasteland: ''Donaukinder'', which is about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill a chemical spill that left a swath of Romania and Hungary nearly uninhabitable.]]

* ProductionForeshadowing: The dramatic, orchestrated ballad "Seemann" was at stark contrast with the rest of Rammstein's (predominantly sex-themed techno metal) music at the time of its recording. The song deals with a sailor (literally 'seaman') who misses his lover. After recording Sehnsucht and Mutter (two more albums of techno-metal), and leaving a similar ballad "Ohne Dich" off Mutter, the band decided to focus on this dramatic side of the band. This culminated in the album "Reise Reise" and its sister album "Rosenrot", which are both characterised by themes of lost love and orchestrations. Notably, "Reise Reise"'s title track is about a storm at sea in which the seamen must fight hard to prevent the ship sinking, and "Rosenrot"'s cover has a ship on it.
* PunBasedTitle: "Du Hast" translates to "You Have" (in the song, the line is extended to "Du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt." -- "You have asked me and I haven't said anything."), but sounds just like "Du Hasst" which means "You Hate." It doesn't help that an English version was recorded under the latter title.

** The track "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86D7Jp8JGJw demoed]] in the Mutter sessions in quite a sparse arrangement. They weren't satisfied with this version of the song, but felt it had potential. In the 'Reise Reise' sessions, the band changed some of the lyrics, added some poppy guitar melodies and rewrote the song to be a duet, between Till and the female singer Bobo. The band still felt the song was lacking so didn't include it on 'Reise Reise'. For their follow up album 'Rosenrot', they removed Bobo's vocals, rewrote some of the verses in English, and got {{Music/Texas}} singer Sharleen Spiteri to sing said English vocals (Bobo's backing vocals remain in places). This version was finally released on Rosenrot as "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir (Don't Die Before I Do)" and was widely praised as one of the highlights of the album. In five years, the song had gone from being a song from the perspective of a German-speaking man dreaming of a soulmate, to a duet between a German-speaking man and English-speaking woman who are dreaming of each other without having met (or even speaking the same language). The combination of languages and the contrast between the metal and pop elements was meant to imply that love transcends all boundaries.
** "Ohne Dich" was written and recorded in the Mutter sessions (this version is the Beta Version) and played once live at a fan club show before the band had decided on all the songs for Mutter. It is characterised by loud guitars in the chorus (a somewhat similar effect to "Seemann"). The band decided to not release this version at the time and instead recorded a more orchestral version which was included on Reise Reise. Eventually that version came out as a single and fans were treated to the original Mutter version as a B-Side.
** The track "Tier" was written and played live in 1994 before Herzeleid came out (commonly bootlegged as 'Biest') but was largely rewritten by the time it appeared on 1998's Sehnsucht. The same is true of "Alter Mann", which also debuted in 1994 and went through several known arrangements before appearing on "Sehnsucht" in 1998.
** Many demo tracks from the "Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da" sessions leaked which suggest the band had written backing tracks first and was trying out which lyrics worked best with the music. Examples include Panterra (The instrumental of "Gib Mir Deine Augen" with the lyrics from "Pussy") and Augen Zu (The instrumental of "Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da" with some of the lyrics from "Wiener Blut")

** "Mein Teil" ends with a bunch of [[Music/{{Korn}} freaks on a leash.]]
** Music/MarilynManson, a long time friend of the band and especially Richard, has a cameo role at Till's funeral in "Haifisch", the only celebrity at the funeral who is not a part of the band.
** The cover of Sehnsucht is a reference to Manson's music video for "The Beautiful People", which had a similar head-contraption-thing. Manson returned that shout out by using a platinum version of the "Du Hast" masks on the [="mOBSCENE"=] single cover, which also has a remix by two members of the band.

* SopranoAndGravel: "Engel", "Nebel" (where they're performed by Christiane "Bobo" Herbold), "Moskau", to some extent "Spieluhr" (which features vocals from [[RealLifeRelative Khira Li, Richard's daughter]]), and "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir (Don't Die Before I Do)" (featuring vocals from Sharleen Spiteri of Texas, though the original German version was performed by Bobo). Also "Halleluja", the hidden track from Mutter.

* RatedMForManly: And nothing epitomized it more than the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Rammstein_Herzeleid_cover.jpg original ''Herzeleid'' cover.]] Of course, that also started the [[AllGermansAreNazis Nazi accusations]]. Go figure.

* RegionalBonus: Japan got "Hallelujah" as a bonus track on Mutter, and the US got it as a bonus on the Best Buy edition of it. However, fans elsewhere had to either import those copies or find the rare "Ich Will" single. A demo version of the song was released on the ''Resident Evil'' film soundtrack.
** In Japan, "Reise Reise"'s cover and pre-gap hidden track were seen as distasteful due to being to do with a Japanese plane crash, so the hidden track was removed and a new cover was devised featuring a ship. This was later used as the cover for "Rosenrot". Remixes of "Mein Teil", "Amerika" and a bonus DVD featuring clips from the band's DVD ''Lichtspielhaus'' were also included.

** The US also had a minor bonus with "Reise Reise", as the flight recorder hidden track was actually included at the start of the track rather than being hidden in the pregap. As pre-gap tracks are hard to rip on computers, this has made it popular with collectors.

* ShirtlessScene: When it comes to live shows, it's not a matter of whether this trope will happen or not, it's ''who specifically'' will invoke this trope. Take Völkerball, Ollie and Paul both end up shirtless by the end of the show. And, as mentioned above, the original "Herzeleid" cover.
* TheScream: The [[https://thetialys.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/rammstein-sehnsucht-frontal.jpg 'Sehnsucht' cover]].

Check them at the [[Characters/{{Rammstein}} Musician sheet]].

* AudienceParticipationSong: "Ich Will", "Ohne Dich", "Engel", "Du Hast", ... Even [[NationalStereotypes the French]] can sing along to that!

* ForeignPeopleAreSexy: Sort of parodied in "Pussy". This is why there's the GratuitousGerman [[{{Irony}} in a predominantly English song]], though still quite ironic since German is not considered to be a particularly attractive language. The song itself is also a parody on the sex tourism trade.

** Seemann hints at this, overall being an incredibly sad song sung in a weak, but desperate voice:

** Mutter. Though it's more explicitly about loneliness and abandonment, the trope shines through.

* IntercourseWithYou: Pretty much half of their songs.

---> [[AC:ICH WILL FICKEN!]][[note]]I WANNA FUCK![[/note]]

** ''xXx'' featured the song "Feuer Frei!", which resulted in Rammstein making a cameo at the beginning of ''xXx''.

** "Laichzeit" mixes this with SiblingIncest and, in the third verse, Bestiality.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Mein Land features a number of bathing beauties, one of which is plus sized.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted in the Rosenrot video. Each band member is dressed as a priest of a different order, most appear to be Catholic but a few appear to be Orthodox or Protestant. This adds to the [[{{Ruritania}} ambiguous Eastern European]] setting.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom / RedEyesTakeWarning: In "Du Riechst So Gut '98".

* AllGermansAreNazis: They are frequent victims of this, for no other reason than singing Metal in German.

* CanadaDoesNotExist: The ''Rammstein in Amerika'' DVD is billed as a recording of Rammstein's famous Madison Square Garden show in 2010; in reality, the DVD is a composite of the two North American shows from that year (Madison Square Garden in New York and the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada). Even though the DVD tip-toes around mentioning this, it becomes readily apparent when some of the crowd shots include Canadian and Quebec flags being waved, as well as shots of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team logo on the stadium entrances.

* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The band wanted a video to promote their first song "Rammstein", and out of sheer tenacity, decided to ask Creator/DavidLynch to produce the video. They sent him a cassette of the Herzeleid album along with some promo material, not expecting him to reply. To their surprise, he not only loved the album, but asked them to allow him to use some of the songs in his movie Film/LostHighway (which they agreed to). The resultant attention from this led to the band doing the unthinkable of being a German language band with a US following. Numerous musicians raved about the band, including {{Korn}}, who invited Rammstein to appear on their Family Values tour in 1998. During this time period, Rammstein even recorded some material in English for the US market, these being their cover of Depeche Mode's "Stripped" and English versions of "Engel" (Angel) and "Du Hast" (You Hate). Rammstein's popularity grew with the NuMetal movement, with their famously theatrical live shows attracting attention, until reaching huge proportions with the Mutter album in 2001. The appearance of the band and use of "Feuer Frei" in the well-known Creator/VinDiesel movie "XXX" sealed the deal. Thanks to these business decisions they are one of the most successful metal bands on the planet despite many of their fans not speaking German.

* RealPersonSlash: [[{{Rule 34}} Don't even act surprised.]]
* RegionalBonus: Japan got "Hallelujah" as a bonus track on Mutter, and the US got it as a bonus on the Best Buy edition of it. However, fans elsewhere had to either import those copies or find the rare Ich Will single. A demo version of the song was released on the Resident Evil soundtrack.
** In Japan, Reise Reise's cover and pre-gap hidden track were seen as distasteful due to being to do with a Japanese plane crash, so the hidden track was removed and a new cover was devised featuring a ship. This was later used as the cover for Rosenrot. Remixes of Mein Teil, Amerika and a bonus DVD featuring clips from the band's DVD Lichtspielhaus were also included.
** The US got a new cover for Herzeleid with white background, whilst the original cover remains in place everywhere else. It was likely the cover was changed for revealing too much of the band's upper bodies, rather than the nazi controversy alluded.
** The US also had a minor bonus with Reise Reise, as the flight recorder hidden track was actually included at the start of the track Reise Reise rather than being hidden in the pregap. As pre-gap tracks are hard to rip on computers, this has made it popular with collectors.
** Australia got "Stripped" as a bonus track on Sehnsucht and when the band toured in 2001, got their Asche Zu Asche single with five live tracks as a bonus tour disc too. This version of the album is quite collectable.

* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The band wanted a video to promote their first song "Rammstein", and out of sheer tenacity, decided to ask Creator/DavidLynch to produce the video. They sent him a cassette of the Herzeleid album along with some promo material, not expecting him to reply. To their surprise, he not only loved the album, but asked them to allow him to use some of the songs in his movie "Lost Highway" (which they agreed to). The resultant attention from this led to the band doing the unthinkable of being a German language band with a US following. Numerous musicians raved about the band, including {{Korn}}, who invited Rammstein to appear on their Family Values tour in 1998. During this time period, Rammstein even recorded some material in English for the US market, these being their cover of Depeche Mode's "Stripped" and English versions of "Engel" (Angel) and "Du Hast" (You Hate). Rammstein's popularity grew with the NuMetal movement, with their famously theatrical live shows attracting attention, until reaching huge proportions with the Mutter album in 2001. The appearance of the band and use of "Feuer Frei" in the well-known Creator/VinDiesel movie "XXX" sealed the deal. Thanks to these business decisions they are one of the most successful metal bands on the planet despite many of their fans not speaking German.

* [[De/AmerikanerLiebenRammstein Americans Love Rammstein]]: The German correspondent in ThisVeryWiki to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff.

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: From a line of the song "Amerika". Richard ''did'' live in America, specifically New York City. Have you ever heard him sing for Emigrate? He even sounds American. Just a wee bit'a irony.

** TheBigBad: Till
** TheDragon: Richard

** TheBigBad: Richard
** TheDragon: Till

-->''"[[AndIMustScream Und keiner hört dich]] '''[[BigWordShout SCHREIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEN!!!]]'''"''

* ''Paris'' (2017)

* AbusiveParents: "Laichzeit", "Tier" and "Wiener Blut".
* AndIMustScream: The victim in "Stein um Stein" is being held captive, abused and raped by the lyrical self. {{Lampshaded}} in that the last line of the song actually translates to "And no one will hear you scream."

** Actually, the song it's intentionally based on is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTM9J1PX4CI the quasi-official anthem of German communism]].

** Do "Bück Dich" and "Ich Tu Dir Weh" count? The latter even specifically spells out "You love me because I don't love you"...

** However, it can be somehow [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that many Canadians themselves don't know that Wonderbra is Canadian.
** However Canada is at least on the North American continent.

* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: The sun shining is referenced in some way in "Rammstein," "Engel," "Küss Mich (Fellfrosch)," "Mein Herz Brennt," "Sonne," "Mutter," "Morgenstern," "Mann Gegen Mann" and "Hilf Mir." ''Liebe Ist Für Alle Da'' is the only album where this theme does not come up.
* AxCrazy: ''Zerstören'' is about a spree killer. "Weisses Fleisch" is about a psychopath murdering a little child out of lust.

* BilingualBonus: "Moskau" has parts sung in Russian; "Amerika" and "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" have parts sung in English, while "Pussy" is in straight English apart from [[InvokedTrope invoked]] Gratuitous German; there're also English versions of "Du Hast", "Engel" and "Amerika" among the singles; "Amour" and "Frühling in Paris" have some parts sung in French; and "Te Quiero Puta!" is sung entirely in Spanish. "Mein Teil" has the occasional moment where he'll say "Yeah this is mein teil" instead of the usual "Es ist mein teil" There is also, an astounding amount of wordplay in their songs, just in general. Till is fairly well qualified for the title of PungeonMaster. "Mein Land" is pretty much the only song whose name ''anyone'' can guess the English translation.

** The onomatopoeic phrase "Bang bang" from "Feuer Frei" was intentionally used because it means the same thing in English.

* [[BrotherSisterIncest Brother-Brother Incest]]: "Spiel Mit Mir".

-->''Can you hear me? [[AudienceParticipation We hear you]].''
-->''Can you see me? [[AudienceParticipation We see you]].''
-->''Can you feel me? [[AudienceParticipation We feel you]].''
-->''I don't understand you.''[[note]] towards the end, it repeatedly replaces "me" with "us."[[/note]]

* CloningBlues: "Mutter", sung from the perspective of a clone ''very'' unhappy about not having real parents.

** "Spieluhr" tells the story of a child presumed dead being buried alive with a music box put into its casket. The chorus features the child itself singing the words "Mein Herz schlägt nicht mehr weiter"[[note]]"My heart is no longer beating"[[/note]].

* DrugsAreBad: One possible interpretation of the song "Adios", where the narrator talks about a man injecting himself ''music'' as a drug and overdosing.

* EtherealChoir: "Mein Teil", though sounding less like it comes from heaven, and more like... from hell. Also generously used in "Morgenstern" and briefly in the chorus of "Du Hast".

* ForeignPeopleAreSexy: Sort of parodied in "Pussy". This is why there's the GratuitousGerman [[{{Irony}} in a predominantly English song]]. The song itself is also a parody on the sex tourism trade.
* GoingNative: "Te Quiero Puta" makes sense in the knowledge that "Reise Reise" and much of "Rosenrot" were recorded in Malaga, Spain. As can be see in the "Making Of Reise Reise" documentary, the band had a very relaxing time there and spent a lot of time joking around. "Te Quiero Puta" soudns exactly like the sort of song written on holiday whilst attempting to speak the local language.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Fairly common, usually wound up in IntercourseWithYou. "Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?" [[note]]"Do you want to see the bed in flames?"[[/note]] has a bridge chant of "Sex ist eine Schlacht! / Liebe ist Krieg!" ([[SexIsViolence "Sex is a battle! / Love is war!"]]). Complete with a sound of a reloading shotgun. And in some versions, a shot right after that.

** "Ohne Dich", a [[LoveHurts somber metal ballad about heartbreak]] with string quartets and soft drums comes right after "Stein um Stein", a song about abuse and rape, which ends on a LastNoteNightmare as mentioned above.

** "Der Meister" qualifies, with happy-sounding keyboards and riffs in a song about a predicted apocalypse.
** Most of "Heirate Mich" as well, which is a pretty groovy song about necrophilia.

* MeaningfulName: "Dalai Lama" refers to the 14th Dalai Lama's fear of flying, and the song is "Der Erlkönig" [[RecycledInSpace on a plane]].
* MetalScream: Used in the chorus of "Wiener Blut", the background of "Wollt ihr das Bett...", the bridge of "Mein Teil", and at a few points in "Mann Gegen Mann". The [[CarefulWithThatAxe bridge and ending]] of "Stein um Stein" takes it UpToEleven.
* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Can get as high as a 10-11, with considerable gusto.

* MurderBallad: "Weisses Fleisch", "Du Riechst So Gut", "Mein Teil", "Stein um Stein", and "Klavier". "Heirate Mich" is a [[ILoveTheDead post-mortem version]], of sorts.