History Music / Rammstein

* IncestIsRelative: "Spiel Mit Mir" and "Wiener Blut".

* GenreRoulette / NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: A surprise which came with their SelfTitledAlbum. Here you're having the synthpop vibe of "Ausländer", bluesy hooks of "Sex" and even the chorus of "Puppe" akin to 90's PostHardcore to say the least.

* AndIMustScream: The victim in "Stein Um Stein" is being held captive, abused and raped by the lyrical self, who repeatedly says "Ich werde immer bei dir sein..."[[note]]I will always be with you[[/note]] in an eerie sing-song voice. {{Lampshaded}} in that the last line of the song actually translates to "And no one will hear you scream."

* AllGermansAreNazis: Due to the leather costumes on stage, the lyrics full of paroles and stomping drum rhythms, Rammstein was of course quickly called a Nazi band. At the release of "Herzeleid" in the 90s, the German newspaper "Bild" (comparable to the British "Sun") accused the band of portraying themselves as the "master race"... because they're all shirtless on the cover to the album. These false claims unfortunately still follow the band to this day.

* MoodMotif: The piano version of "Mein Herz Brennt", especially its first few bars, has become the subject of MemeticMutation, and gets used as stand-in music for all kinds of emotional and tragic scenes in film and theater, even as as stock background music in trashy German scripted [[RealityShow reality shows]].

* EventheGuysWantHim: Till and Richard mostly, but Schneider, Paul and Ollie get some love as well in the comments on their youtube videos.

* MinimalistCoverArt: Their cover art has always been extremely minimal, especially singles releases. To the point that their self-titled album's cover is pure white with an unlit match on it.

* 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.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Often gets as high as a 10-11, with considerable gusto. "Mein Teil" and "Ich Tu Dir Weh" are popular examples.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Varies wildly up and down the scale, from 1 or 2 (e.g. "Ein Lied", "Roter Sand") up to 8 or 9 (e.g "Mein Teil", "Bück Dich"), and everything in between. They usually reside at level 7, though.

* MoralGuardians: A frequent target. They've been blamed for inspiring the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre, and "Ich tu dir weh" was indexed in their home country. The reason behind it was "abuse promotion". There's also a picture of Richard spanking a nude woman in the album art for ''Liebe ist für alle da'' which got the same treatment for being "degrading to women". And let us not go into "Pussy", which features only on porn sites, for the logical reason that it ''is'' porn.

** The songs "Halleluja" and "Mein Teil" have been featured on the soundtracks for the first two live-action ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movies, respectively. The soundtrack to ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' featured Emigrate's "My World".

[[caption-width-right:350:[-From Left to right: Till, Paul, Christoph, Richard, Ollie, and Flake-]]]

* Christian 'Flake' Lorenz - keyboards

* BeatStillMyHeart: In "Mein Herz Brennt", the VillainProtagonist talks about ripping his heart from his chest, setting it on fire and using its power to force children to surrender their tears. The [[https://youtu.be/WXv31OmnKqQ?t=230 music video]] shows him ripping out the heart and starting to eat it.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The protagonist in "Mein Herz Brennt" is an EmotionEater who lives off the tears of children he [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight scares into crying at night in their beds]].

* AllGermansAreNazis: They are frequent victims of this accusation, for no other reason than singing metal in German. That, and their tendency to invoke RefugeInAudacity sometimes causes them to dip into this.

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

* UnusualEuphemism: A lot of them, but "[[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities Steck Bratwurst]] [[IntercourseWithYou in dein Sauerkraut]]" probably takes the cake.

* TakeMyHand: Occurs in "Ohne Dich" when Till slips during the climb and a band member tries to catch him but ultimately fails.

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

* [[De/AmerikanerLiebenRammstein Americans Love Rammstein]]: The German correspondent in Wiki/ThisVeryWiki to Germans Love David Hasselhoff.

Rammstein is a six-man band from UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}. They were formed in 1994 after UsefulNotes/{{East German|y}} escapee Richard Z. Kruspe wanted to make music that mixed musical grooves with a machine-like sound, which they'd later describe as "Tanz-Metall"[[note]]dance metal[[/note]], and gathered the rest of the group to bring it about. They take their name from the Ramstein US Air Force Base where an airshow ended in disaster when three planes collided mid-air in 1988, adding an extra 'm' ''by mistake'', though the band insists they took the name for a kind of battering ram once they got popular. Their stateside popularity began in 1997, when a couple of their songs were featured in Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/LostHighway'', and the song "Du Hast" became a smash hit.

Rammstein is a six-man band from Germany. They were formed in 1994 after East German escapee Richard Z. Kruspe wanted to make music that mixed musical grooves with a machine-like sound, which they'd later describe as "Tanz-Metall"[[note]]dance metal[[/note]], and gathered the rest of the group to bring it about. They take their name from the Ramstein Air Force Base where an airshow ended in disaster when three planes collided mid-air in 1988, adding an extra 'm' ''by mistake'', though the band insists they took the name for a kind of battering ram once they got popular. Their stateside popularity began in 1997, when a couple of their songs were featured in Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/LostHighway'', and the song "Du Hast" became a smash hit.

The band is notable for their absolutely absurd and spectacle-driven live shows that feature impressive pyrotechnic displays and plenty of [[AudienceParticipationSong Audience Participation Songs]], to the point where Till lets the crowd sing some songs in their entirety.

[[caption-width-right:350:From Left to right: Till, Paul, Christoph, Richard, Ollie, and Flake]]

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