History Music / Rammstein

* WhipItGood: During the ''Made in Germany'' performances of "Bück dich", Schneider (in full "[[{{Dominatrix}} Frau Schneider]]" mode) whips the other band members around with a riding crop.

* HarshVocals: Combined with BadassBaritone, this is how Till sings, with highly distinctive, raspy, towering vocals in a deep stentorian pattern. Bonus points for being [[GutturalGrowler his actual voice.]]

* SingingVoiceDissonance: Till Lindemann has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r__RTqqmeGI positively mellow speaking voice]] to contrast his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC9pAker_PM furious growling in-song]].

* [[ExcitedShowTitle Excited Song Title!]]: "Feuer Frei!".

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

* MusicToInvadePolandTo: Via review of their album ''Mutter''. [[invoked]]
* [[De/AmerikanerLiebenRammstein Americans Love Rammstein]]: The German correspondent in Website/ThisVeryWiki to [[invoked]]GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff.

* 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 the ''Reise Reise'' sessions, "Eisenmann", which had a newer version recorded during the production of ''Liebe ist für alle da'' leaked online in 2010.
** The instrumental later for "Pussy" had different, cut lyrics which were used partly in "Gib Mir Deine Augen" (b-side to the 2012 reworking of "Mein Herz Brennt") and others in "Was Ich Liebe" (from the self-titled album).

[[folder:Song tropes]]
* AbusiveParents: "Laichzeit", "Tier" and [[BasedOnATrueStory "Wiener Blut"]].

** Averted with their Tours from 2011 to 2017, which featured AT LEAST one song from the album performed
* 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.

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

** ''Zerstören'' is about a spree killer. "Weisses Fleisch" is about a psychopath murdering a little child out of lust. "Halt" is about a ButtMonkey driven to mass murder.

* 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 "Yes, it's mein teil" instead of the usual "Es ist mein Teil". Up to eleven with "Ausländer".
** 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 for.
** 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 sneak the very explicit sexual (and gruesome, in the case of "Heirate Mich") lyrics past the censors, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.
** The onomatopoeic phrase "Bang Bang!" from "Feuer Frei" was intentionally used because it means the same thing in English. In German it would be spelled [[GratuitousGerman "Bäng Bäng"]] though.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Hinted at in "Laichzeit". "Liese" describes child-on-child rape, though it's unclear if the children are siblings.
** Brother-brother incest in "Spiel Mit Mir".
* BuxomBeautyStandard: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJgU9jkdU4 Dicke Titten]], which literally means "Big Tits" and features this chorus:

* CallBack: The first line in "Deutschland" is "Du hast...", calling back to, well, "Du hast".
* CarefulWithThatAxe: They're a metal band, come on. For example, the bridge of "Mein Teil", the end of "Heirate Mich" and "Stein um Stein", the chorus of "Wiener Blut" and "Bückstabü", a few lines in "Weißes Fleisch", and the "an den großen roten... AUGEN!"[[note]]"on the big red... eyes!"[[/note]] in "Laichzeit".
** The emo-esque chorus of "Puppe" stands out.
* CoverVersion: They have done covers of Depeche Mode's "Stripped", The Ramones's "Pet Semetary" and Kraftwerk's "Das Model" (with the title of the cover version being spelt as "Das Modell"). Recently, Till worked with Music/{{Apocalyptica}} to do a German cover of David Bowie's "Heroes".

* CueTheSun: "Sonne".
* 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"; a newer version recorded during the production of ''Liebe ist für alle da'' leaked online in 2010. The remaining five tracks on "Rosenrot" were new at the time.

* 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, to redeem him from his shame, thinking that he is a mentally unstable individual. [[spoiler:He gets pushed off.]]
* DrugsAreBad: "Kokain" describes a horror trip in a ''very'' gruesome way.

* {{Eagleland}}: "Amerika" satirizes Type 2, in a nuanced way: the lyrics describe how Americans believe that their culture and way of life are the only successful and "right" ones, and attempt to make everyone follow them.

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

* GenreRoulette: 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.
** Playing with elements from other genres is nothing new for Rammstein, though. You have the country-ladden "Los", "Spiel Mit Mir" with its gothic dark-wave influences[[note]]Many in the band were goths as teenagers, and all of them were big fans of Depeche Mode[[/note]], "Rammlied" which sounds very symphonic, or softer folk ballads like "Roter Sand" and "Liese".
* GoingNative: "Te Quiero Puta!" makes sense in the knowledge that "Reise Reise" and much of "Rosenrot" were recorded in Malaga, Spain. As can be seen 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" sounds exactly like the sort of song written on holiday whilst attempting to speak the local language.
** Furthermore, in 2018 they took their choir and orchestra recording sessions for the upcoming album in Belarus.

* {{Hermaphrodite}}: The song "Zwitter" (which does indeed translate as "Hermaphrodite"). It's about a man and a woman fusing together into one body, and this hybrid of two souls and two sexes being [[ScrewYourself very comfortable]] with their new life.
* HesBack: The general point of ''Ramm4''.
* HurricaneOfPuns: ''Ramm4'' uses song titles of past songs to make plenty of goofy puns.
** ''Los'' is almost entirely made of puns between the imperative verb "los" ("go!") and the suffix "-los" ("-less").
* ILoveTheDead: "Heirate Mich" is about an old man digging up the skeleton of his dead wife to have sex with it.
* ImAHumanitarian: "Mein Teil", which is about a famous news story of a cannibal who advertised on the internet for someone willing to be killed and eaten by him. His victim being entirely willing and cooperative in his own brutal demise did not prevent a conviction for manslaughter in the case. In live performances of the song, Till "cooks" Flake [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EEWjqAwvco with a]] [[PyroManiac flamethrower]]. Taken to new heights during the Made in Germany tour. When Flake laughs off the flamethrower, Till brings out an industrial-sized flamethrower and torches him. Till laughs joyously and continues singing only to be flabbergasted when Flake climbs out of the cauldron and runs around the stage.

** "Ohne Dich" in its entirety. ''Weh mir, oh weh!''[[note]]Woe to me, oh woe![[/note]]

----> Niemand gab mir einen Namen[[note]]Nobody gave me a name[[/note]]
----> Gezeugt in Hast und ohne Samen[[note]]Conceived in haste and without a semen[[/note]]
** "Mein Herz Brennt" is interpreted by many to be about how men are forced from a young age to repress their emotions and how it breaks them as people. The title of the song means "My heart is on fire", or more literally, "My heart ''is burning''".
** "Amour" is a comment on this whole trope.

--->Der Ritt war kurz[[note]]The ride was short[[/note]]\\

--->Dieselbe Sache und das alte Leid[[note]]The same thing and the same old sorrow[[/note]]\\

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Zerstören, which is about a crazy man on a rampage. "Ich Muss Zerstören!" means "I must destroy!"

* LighterAndSofter:

** A surprising number of their remixes are almost ambient sounding.
* LocationSong: "Amerika", "Moskau".
* LyricalColdOpen:
** "Spieluhr" and "Vergiss Uns Nicht" sort of serve as a prologue to the song.
** "Das Alte Leid" starts with an awkward "Hallo, Hallo..."
* LyricalDissonance:

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

* 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" and "Mein Land". The [[CarefulWithThatAxe bridge and ending]] of "Stein um Stein" takes it up to eleven.

* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: "Heirate mich" and "Klavier".
* MurderBallad: "Weisses Fleisch", "Du Riechst So Gut", "Mein Teil", "Stein um Stein", and "Klavier". "Heirate Mich" is a [[ILoveTheDead post-mortem version]], of sorts. "Wo Bist Du" and "Halt" at least hint at this.

* NonAppearingTitle: "Nebel", "Dalai Lama", "Wiener Blut", "Rammlied". This is actually quite rare for the band, since Till Lindemann writes a lot of poems and simply turns them into songs. Therefore, most of the songs just have the song's title as the catchphrase of their choruses.
** "Rammlied" in particular is what they feel "Rammstein" (the song) '''should''' have been.
* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Bück Dich", "Wilder Wein", "Bestrafe Mich", "Ich Tu Dir Weh" (the lyrics of which are so graphic it got ''Liebe ist für alle da'' put on the Index for a short while) and the unreleased "Feuerräder".
* ObsessionSong: "Du Riechst So Gut", among others.

* OminousMusicBoxTune: "Spieluhr". (The title translates to "Music Box", as well.) A little tune at the end of "Zerstören"
* OneWomanWail: The finale to "Sonne". Notable for being a stock sample played on Flake's keyboard instead of an actual, y'know, woman.
** "Zerstören" features a sample from the Turkish song “Huma Kuşu”, sung by Devrim Kaya.
---> "Yar yarim, sen ağlama. Katlanamam."[[note]] “Lover, my lover, don’t cry. I can’t take it.”[[/note]]

* PowerBallad: Every album includes at least one, "Ohne Dich" or "Mutter" being very popular examples.

* PrecisionFStrike: From "Das Alte Leid": "Weiss ich endlich... ICH WILL FICKEN!" -- "I know at last, I want to fuck!". Punctuated in the early live shows with a firework launched from Till's crotch for further emphasis. Especially jarring when one remembers that the man himself rarely swears in interviews and the band's catalog (while his side project's album "Skills in Pills" is a ClusterFBomb), for all its rampant innuendo, contains little to no profanity. Even more impressive? "Das Alte Leid" is from their ''first'' album.

** "Deutschland" calls back to this by using both of them.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "RAMM! STEIN!" used in "Wollt ihr das Bett...", "Rammstein", "Rammlied" and "Ramm4".
* PyroManiac:
** "Feuer Frei!" ('Open fire!'). Doesn't need much explaining.

** As pyrotechnics have ''always'' been part of the band's live setup, Till has described their live shows as "just a more intense David Copperfield show".
* RadioSong: "Radio." [[CaptainObvious Duh]].

** "Du Riechst So Gut" focuses on primal instincts and brutality. [[spoiler:What's worse is that the narrator of the song seems to be aware that what they're doing is wrong, which is why they tell their victim to stop screaming and fighting back.]]

** "Halleluja", "Liese", "Tier", and "Spiel Mit Mir" discuss [[FromBadToWorse child rape]] or sexual abuse.
** The narrator of "Weisses Fleisch" makes it clear he gets off on the sounds of his victim's screams of pain and horror.

* ReligionRantSong: "Zeig Dich" (Type 1).
* RuleThirtyFour: "Pussy". The video premiered on a porn site. [[HoYay And that's]] [[YaoiFangirl just the]] [[RealPersonSlash canon example]].

** "Mein Teil" ends with a bunch of [[Music/{{Korn}} freaks on leashes.]]
** Music/MarilynManson, a longtime friend of the band (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.

** "Ohne Dich" contains references to a famous German poem: see below under SpiritualSuccessor.

* SopranoAndGravel: "Engel", "Nebel", "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''.

* SplitPersonality: "Führe Mich".
* StalkerWithACrush: The narrator of "Du Riechst So Gut". "Feuer und Wasser" too, though to a much lesser extent.

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Seemann", "Ohne Dich", "Ein Lied", "Amour", "Nebel", "Frühling in Paris", "Roter Sand", "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" and "Diamant" (the latter three are notable for not featuring any heavy guitars)... They have a fair few songs like this. "Ein Lied", "Roter Sand" and "Diamant" even lack drums.

** "Los" also counts.

* ThrashMetal: "Asche Zu Asche" flirts with this genre.

* TrueCompanions: "Haifisch" can be seen as a form of principle declaration. "Ein Lied" is a hymn of loyalty towards their fans. According to Richard "it is a marriage without sex", and they get councelling to stay together. They all have expressed that the band can only function as a whole, if one leaves, there is no band. Yet Flake still jokes that he is merely a guest and not a full member. He was reluctant to join, as he found their music boring!

* VillainProtagonist: "Wiener Blut", "Halleluja" and "Hallomann" are sung from a child abductor's perspective.
* WordSaladLyrics: "Ramm 4", a new song to open their 2016/2017 festival concerts, is made by just mixing their older song titles together.

[[folder:MusicVideo tropes]]
* AnimalStereotypes: Averted in "Link 2-3-4". The ants are shown as laid back and relaxed: playing soccer, watching movies, and dancing to Rammstein records instead of living in a joyless, oppressive colony with endless drudge work the way ants typically get portrayed.
* TheBandMinusTheFace: "Haifisch". The rest of the band are already discussing who to replace Till with ''at his own funeral''.
* BeachEpisode: The video for "Mein Land".
* BicepKiss: Till does this in the music video to "Mein Land".
* BigBeautifulWoman:
** "Mein Land" features a number of bathing beauties, one of which is plus-sized.
** "Auslander" features an African village full of half-naked women, one of whom is plus-sized and treated very favorably by the band members. [[spoiler: At the end of the video, she kidnaps Flake]].
* CallBack: Among others, the video for "Haifisch" references the videos for "Du Hast" and "Sonne".
* TheCameo: Music/MarilynManson (the person) appears in "Haifisch" in a few [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you'll-miss-it shots]]. The same video briefly shows photographs of Music/HenryRollins and [[{{Music/Metallica}} James Hetfield]] as the band members consider who'll replace Till as the vocalist.
* 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.
* ChummyCommies: The ants in the "Links 2-3-4" music video are meant to represent this and the proletariat. The song is about how Rammstein leans left as a response to the AllGermansAreNazis and MusicToInvadePolandTo accusations their music received, and therefore the ants are shown to be good natured, living a communal life and apparently are fans of Rammstein. Their city is then suddenly attacked by large beetles representing capitalist elites, imperialist exploiters and repressive fascists. When the ants seem down, one of them inspires them to work together to take down their oppressors. The ants march in formation united and use their combined might to make up for their lack of individual strength to defeat the beetles, symbolizing a communist revolution where the workers unite to take down the bourgoise, imperialists and fascists.
* ConceptVideo: Most of them.
* {{Crossdresser}}:
** Schneider plays Armin Meiwes' mother in "Mein Teil". In the making-of, it is mentioned that the files to the Armin Meiwes case include a picture of Meiwes' mother - and her hairstyle looks exactly like the wig Schneider wore in the video. The character of 'Frau Schneider' reappears occasionally in live shows.
** In "Dicke Titten," Richard's character is seen sneaking into the basement, where he tries on a slip (made by himself), a blond wig, makeup, and jewelled earrings, and hesitantly examines his reflection.
* DeathByMusicVideo: The music video for "Ich Will" depicts the band robbing a bank, alternating between the robbery and its aftermath. During the robbery, Flake is seen wearing a rather large and elaborate bomb strapped to his chest. Scenes showing the aftermath and the band being arrested have Flake notably absent (apart from a large InMemoriam picture of him), implying that he died when the bomb detonated.
* DestructiveSaviour: The firemen in "Benzin" obliviously plow through trees, cars, buildings and a train with their enormous fire engine as they speed to rescue a single suicide jumper. [[spoiler:And they fail even at that.]]
* DirtyOldMonk: A rather tragic example in "Rosenrot".
* DyingCandle: The music video to "Ohne Dich" ends with [[https://youtu.be/LIPc1cfS-oQ?t=327 a candle going while the singer dies]].
* {{Dominatrix}}: Snow White in "Sonne".
* DontExplainTheJoke: Setting the "Mein Land" video as a [[Creator/DavidHasselhoff David Hasselhoff]]-style beach party diverts attention from the song's lyrics, a critical commentary on anti-immigrant xenophobia. In the video's making-of documentary, the original concept appeared to involve the beach party being disturbed by [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon a campy costumed sea monster]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Flake]] plays a suicide jumper in "Benzin".
* EasterEgg: The "Ich Tu Dir Weh" video. [[spoiler: If you keep an eye on Richard's hands, you'll see a ring from his other band, Emigrate.]]
* {{Fanservice}}:
** The "Mein Land" video features the entire band shirtless and in beachwear for most of it (and Till as a lifeguard), not to mention a lot of bikini-clad women. Towards the end, there are very quick shots of topless women and [[GirlOnGirlIsHot other women making out with each other]].
** "Mann gegen Mann" features the band almost completely naked. But, as a twist on "Mein Land", the end of the clip ends in in [[GuyOnGuyIsHot a pile of man making out]]. That said, this one is [[DoubleStandard a lot harder to find on video sites]].
** "Auslander" features an African village. [[NationalGeographicNudity All the women go topless throughout the entire video.]]
* FemmeFatale: In the first scene of the video for "Deutschland", Germania is seen cutting off the head from a dead body (probably a Roman soldier, evoking Rome's UsefulNotes/GermanicWars); in several scenes throughout the video, Germania is holding, and one time, kissing the head (which appears to be the head of Till Lindemann). This pose evokes two famous femme fatales from Literature/{{the Bible}}, Judith (who seduced Holofernes in order to murder him and cut off his head) and Salome (who used her beauty to [[DemandingTheirHead persuade King Herod to have John the Baptist beheaded]]); both of them are often depicted in art together with the severed heads of their victims. The same characterization is also apparent in a different set of scenes which show Germania watching indifferently, or sometimes with apparent delight, as Till Lindemann gets beaten to a pulp in a 1920s boxing match, skewered with swords in a medieval battle, hanged as a Concentration Camp prisoner, and beaten up by a policeman in a 19th century prison. The accompanying lyrics (sung by Till Lindemann) fittingly address Germany with the lines "Deutschland – deine Liebe / Ist Fluch und Segen" ("Germany, your love is a blessing and a curse") and "Deutschland – mein Herz in Flammen / will dich lieben und verdammen" ("Germany, my heart in flames / I want to love and to damn you").
* FilleFatale: In the "Rosenrot" video. Emphasis on "fatale".
* FiremansSafetyNet: In "Benzin". [[spoiler:It rips.]]
* FiremenAreHot: The "Benzin" video.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the "Haifisch" video. [[spoiler: The postcard turns out to be a minor spoiler for the "Mein Land" video]].
* TheFunInFuneral: The "Haifisch" video.
* GenreThrowback: The first half of "Mein Land" is a parody of teen beach party movies, a once-popular genre that has largely been dead since the late '60s.
* GlasgowGrin: In "Mein Land", the makeup makes the band members look eerily like [[Film/TheDarkKnight Heath Ledger's Joker]].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: In "Du Riechst So Gut '98".
* {{Grimmification}}: The video for "Sonne" is a rather dark take on Disney's version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', featuring the band members as masochistic dwarves working for a gold dust-addicted Snow White who overdoses at one point.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Flake's character in "Pussy".
* IfItBleedsItLeads: Satirized in the "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[[note]]Germany's equivalent of the Emmys[[/note]] award after being arrested. The way journalists and cameramen [[MediaScrum assault them with questions as if they were celebrities or politicians]] is rather unsettling, and it really makes you think about how the media, intentionally or not, turns criminals into celebrities.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Till's fate]] in "Rosenrot".
* MadeOfExplodium: The car in the "Du Hast" video. Crosses with StuffBlowingUp.
* MasqueradeBall: "Du Riechst So Gut '98".
* MediaScrum: In the video for "Ich Will".
* MightyWhitey: Subverted in "Auslander". The band travels to an African village in stereotypical European explorer gear, but they're shown to be fairly incompetent and mostly just party with the villagers.
* MindScrew: Half their music videos. Just try to figure out what was going on in the "Pussy" and "Ich Tu Dir Weh" videos, both directed by Jonas Akerlund.
* MoonLandingHoax: Played with in the video to "Amerika", which is fundamentally about America's cultural and political impact on the rest of the world and includes a studio where "moon" shots are being taken among its scenes.
* NaughtyNuns: According to the Rammwiki, several of these appeared in the unrleased Video for "Zeig dich".
* OnASoundstageAllAlong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P7Zd-x2QXw The video]] for "Amerika". The band are rocking out on the moon, before the cameras pull back to reveal it's a film set. This is also a gag at the expense of those who think the moon landings were faked on a soundstage.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In the video for "Du Riechst So Gut '98", the band members play a pack of werewolves.
* OverlyLongTongue: Till gets two examples. "Mann Gegen Mann" gives him a long, black, snakelike tongue and "Ich tu dir weh" has a few brief clips of him with a forked (but still humanoid) tongue.
* {{Parody}}: The "Pussy" video is an over-the-top parody of GangstaRap and GlamRap videos, [[WordOfGod according to Schneider]].
* PecFlex: "Mann Gegen Mann"'s video.
* PedophilePriest: "Hallelujah" is about one. Till's character in the "Rosenrot" video is an ephebophile priest.
* PerformanceVideo: They usually avoid this trope with their videos, but both "Feuer Frei!" (also a VideoFullOfFilmClips) and "Ich tu dir weh" are this type of video.
* {{Ruritania}} The "Rosenrot" video takes place in a vaguely Eastern European setting.
* SexySecretary: This is the role of the woman who seduces Schneider's CEO character in the "Pussy" video.
* SexySoakedShirt: The "kissing in the rain" scene in the "Du Riechst So Gut '98" video has wet clothes played for fanservice.
* SnakesAreSexy: "Engel".
* ShirtlessScene:
** "Mann Gegen Mann" is a ''Clothingless'' Scene.
** "Mein Land" has the band shirtless for most of it.
* ShoutOut:
** All the fantasies the other band members have of killing Till in "Haifisch" are related to previous videos: "Du Hast", "Ohne Dich", "Keine Lust", "Sonne", and "Amerika". Also, the final fantasy appears to be a shout out to the movie ''Film/Se7en''.
** "Engel" plays heavy homage to ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''.
** "Du Hast" homages ''Film/ReservoirDogs''.
** During the end of "Mein Land", the band members are wearing [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]]-style facepaint.
** Till's beach running in "Mein Land" is a nod to ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: The creepy child voices in "Spieluhr" are done by Vocoders.
* TakeMyHand: Occurs in "Ohne Dich" when Till slips during the climb and Schneider tries to catch him but ultimately fails.
* ATasteOfTheLash: Used in the context of mortification of the flesh in "Rosenrot".
* ThroatLight: Till had one installed for "Ich Tu Dir Weh", and also used it during the "Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da" tour when singing "Rammlied." Notable in that he actually got his cheek pierced and ran a cable through it in order to power said light.
* {{Transvestite}}: Frau Schneider in the "Mein Teil" video.
* TrueCompanions:
** Subverted in the video of "Haifisch". The video takes place at Till's funeral, and we see that the other band members have had fantasies of murdering him. They end up getting into a fight, which culminated in Flake crashing into Till's casket, [[spoiler: which is when they found out he [[FakingTheDead faked his death]].]]
** Subverted in the video of "Auslander". The band gets on their boat to leave the African village they've been staying in, but when Flake suddenly comes racing out of the jungle they laugh and leave him behind as one of the village women tackles him to the ground and carries him off.
* UnflinchingWalk:
** The entire band does one at the end of "Du Hast" as a car explodes behind them.
** In [[https://youtu.be/GukNjYQZW8s?t=103 "Haifisch"]].
* VideoFullOfFilmClips: "Stripped", "Feuer Frei!" and "Rammstein".
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: "Mein Land".
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Ruby Commey's portrayal of Germania in "Deutschland" is an interesting visual case. Germania is usually portrayed as carrying the national flag; but in the video with her black skin, red eyes, and gold-trimmed outfits, Germania ''is'' the flag.
* WorstAid: As the "Ohne Dich" video shows, it's not always a good idea to move someone with a broken bone.
* ZergRush: How the ants in the "Links 2-3-4" video dealt with the beetles that invaded their anthill. The beetles never stood a chance.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: They are frequent victims of this accusation, for no other reason than singing metal in German. That, and their tendency to invoke RefugeInAudacity, including dipping into this theme.
* AttractiveBentGender: Schneider makes a surprisingly attractive woman, as do Ollie and Paul.
* ButtMonkey: In the ''Made in Germany'' tour, Flake's status as the band's ButtMonkey is alleviated somewhat by the performance of "Bück dich", in which the ''entire band'' falls into ButtMonkey status. Till, Paul, Flake and Ollie are led on all fours and abused by Frau Schneider towards Richard, who also gets abused as well. Then, later, Till squirts his dildo right into Schneider's face mid-performance.
* 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.
* CaptainMorganPose: Till likes [[https://youtu.be/srN1GsnBui8?t=101 this]] [[https://youtu.be/zz4PH4TEZX0?t=192 pose]].
* {{Eagleland}}: While previously mentioned as part of "Amerika", it should be mentioned that two members, Richard and Flake, firmly hold to each type, with the former living in (and writing a song about) New York City until 2011, the latter vehemently despising the country's attitude and culture.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hard as it is to believe, Rammstein's earliest shows were absent of the ImpressivePyrotechnics that would quickly become one of the band's defining hallmarks.
** "Herzeleid" is notable for having much more prominent 90s techno influences than their later work, with its lead single "Du Riechst So Gut" and album track "Laichzeit" frequently surprising first time listeners.
* 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 "Hallelujah" 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 ''Film/{{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.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Till and Richard mostly, but Schneider, Paul and Ollie get some love as well in the comments on their youtube videos.
* GagPenis: The cannon used during live performances of "Pussy."
* GreatBallsOfFire: All of their live shows and a fair few of their videos too.
* HarshVocals: Combined with BadassBaritone, this is how Till sings, with highly distinctive, raspy, towering vocals in a deep stentorian pattern. Bonus points for being [[GutturalGrowler his actual voice.]]
* {{Hunk}}: Till, Richard, and Schneider qualify the most.
* IndustrialMetal: Specifically of the Neue Deutsche Härte variety. The band calls it "Tanz Metall" (dance metal).
* ImpressivePyrotechnics: The concert shows. After the Treptow accident in 1996, Till became a licensed pyrotechnician, and the band started a cooperation with a German special effects team FFP. The band claims that it's meant to hold the attention of fans who don't speak German (which is probably a majority of the fanbase), but the introvert Till also uses it and his stage persona to direct attention away from his real personality. It also crosses with PyroManiac.
* LongRunnerLineup: The band was founded in 1994 and there hasn't been a single lineup change since then. According to Richard, "it is like a marriage without sex", and as such - again according to Richard - it requires weekly councelling. They presumably started this after they almost broke up in the wake of ''Mutter'', and "Ohne Dich" plus "Haifisch" is part of the process. They've expressed their intent to take this to its LogicalExtreme - if any member of the band dies or retires, Rammstein will cease to exist once and for all.
* MachoMasochism
* MadeOfExplodium: It's not uncommon for things like Mic stands to either burst into an explosion when slammed into the ground... or burst into flames (while still being sung into) for no real reason.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: 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.
%%* 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.
* MyspeldRokband: Although not on purpose. The band took their name from the Ramstein airshow disaster in 1988 but according to Paul made a mistake when spelling it. They thought the town's name was spelled with two m's instead of one. Though they considered other names, the misspelling stuck.
* NonFatalExplosions: When your band has a licensed pyrotechnician, you can't go wrong. Till has gotten [[ManOnFire burnt a few times]] though.
* PyroManiac: The concerts and the songs. About the former, they routinely fire a flamethrower just above the front rows, which are literally named "Die Feuerzone (The Fire Zone). About the latter, there are about as many songs about fire as there are about sex. See also Chad Smith's anecdote about Till and Fire - German humour at its best [[https://youtu.be/p1DUh9sBnP0]]
* RatedMForManly: This is a band comprised of some very strong and masculine men playing booming and pounding industrial metal songs about some downright unsettling subject matter, and in the German language no less. Of course, that also contributed to the [[AllGermansAreNazis Nazi accusations]]. Go figure.
* RealPersonFic: [[{{Rule 34}} Don't even act surprised.]]
* RockersSmashGuitars: The guitars actually (usually) stay intact, but Flake's keyboard and Till's mic stand are often not so fortunate.
* SelfTitledAlbum: Technically, their seventh album has NoTitle, however, for indexing purposes, most retailers refer to it as 'Rammstein'. They also have a ''song'' named "Rammstein".
* 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. All of the 1995 video for "Du riechst so gut" too. Given the heat on stage, it is probably understandable, but it also comes with some {{Fanservice}}.
* TheScream: The ''[[https://thetialys.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/rammstein-sehnsucht-frontal.jpg Sehnsucht]]'' cover.
* ShoutOut: The [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Mein_Land.jpeg cover art]] for "Mein Land" is based on the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/SurferGirlCover.jpg cover art]] for Music/TheBeachBoys album ''Surfer Girl''.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Till fits this criteria, with his 6'0" height, muscular build and dark hair. Richard and Schneider count as well.
* {{Transvestite}}: [[https://imgur.com/gallery/v5zn9 This photoshoot]]. Also, [[AttractiveBentGender Frau Schneider]] makes a reappearance in the ''Made in Germany'' tour.
* TrrrillingRrrs: Till Lindemann's trademark is his use of overly theatrical rolling R's.
* TruckDriversGearChange: In the climax of "Mutter" and the bridge of "Radio".
* 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. To the point where they haven't even changed their placement ''on stage'' during live shows since their inception.
* UnflinchingWalk: Flake spends a lot of his time walking on a treadmill onstage during live shows. Combined with the pyrotechnics, it often becomes this.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Ollie is more or less guaranteed to finish any performance shirtless, and will occasionally start that way. Till and Richard generally also fell into this trope in the band's early days.
* WhipItGood: During the ''Made in Germany'' performances of "Bück dich", Schneider (in full "[[{{Dominatrix}} Frau Schneider]]" mode) whips the other band members around with a riding crop.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Weit Weg" is about a man spying on his female neighbor through the window and pleasuring himself while fantasizing about them together.

* OdeToApathy: The song "Keine Lust" makes no bones that it's about being apathetic: its title translates roughly to "No Desire" or "I Don't Feel Like It." It's a sort of truth in advertising, as the song itself is about a person who's too apathetic or depressed to take care of, or even [[ADateWithRosiePalms pleasure]], themselves. The video takes the concept in a slightly different direction, as it shows most of the band flaunting fabulous wealth (and wearing gigantic fat suits) as a riff on the idea of bands becoming too rich and successful to really care about their art.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Frau Schneider in "Mein Teil".

* SpiritualSuccessor: "Ohne Dich" is this to a song by Music/FranzSchubert, "Wandrers Nachtlied II", which itself is a setting of the poem by the same name by Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe, probably the most famous poem in German literature, in which a solitary man looks out over a peaceful forest in which "die Vögelein schweigen im Walde", "the birds in the trees are quiet", and feels that soon, he too will be at rest. In "Ohne Dich", a man looks at a forest which is "so schwarz und leer", so "black and empty", and in which "die Vögel singen nicht mehr", "the birds sing no more", because his lover has either left him or has died -- but at any rate, he's "ohne dich", "without you", and not at rest at all, but in despair.
** Although released afterwards (but recorded around the same time), "Wo Bist Du" could be seen as a prequel to "Ohne Dich" as it features a man searching the tranquil countryside for a lover who may be dead, and indicates that he's considering suicide if he doesn't find her.
** "Tier" is one to the unreleased song "Tier '94" which has some similar lyrics about a pedophile.

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Paraphrased from a line of the song "Amerika". Richard ''did'' live in America, specifically New York City.

** "[[WeAllLiveInAmerica Amerika]]" is one towards {{Eagleland}}.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Richard
** TheLancer: Till
** TheSmartGuy: Flake
** TheBigGuy: Schneider
** TheHeart: Paul and Oliver.

* {{Crossdresser}}: Schneider plays Armin Meiwes' mother in "Mein Teil". In the making-of, it is mentioned that the files to the Armin Meiwes case include a picture of Meiwes' mother - and her hairstyle looks exactly like the wig Schneider wore in the video. The character of 'Frau Schneider' reappears occasionally in live shows.

* BuxomIsBetter: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJgU9jkdU4 Dicke Titten]], which literally means "Big Tits" and features this chorus:

* LongRunnerLineup: The band was founded in 1994 and there hasn't been a single lineup change since then. According to Richard, "it is like a marriage without sex", and as such - again according to Richard - it requires weekly councelling. They presumably started this after they almost broke up in the wake of ''Mutter'', and "Ohne Dich" plus "Haifisch" is part of the process. They've expressed their intent to take this to its LogicalExtreme.

* IconicLogo: The font used for the band name on [=CDs=] and [=DVDs=], and the Rammstein cross.

* 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 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 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 collectible.

* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Pussy" and "Te Quiero Puta!"[[note]]"I love you, whore!"[[/note]].

Bin ich stärker, durchfeile mein Genick[[note]]If I'm stronger, file through my spine[[/note]]\\

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

* 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 "Yes, it's mein teil" instead of the usual "Es ist mein Teil". UpToEleven with "Ausländer".

* 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" and "Mein Land". The [[CarefulWithThatAxe bridge and ending]] of "Stein um Stein" takes it UpToEleven.

* ''Rammstein Life'' (1996) - A recording of their Autuumn 1996 Berlin concert. Was released in December of 1996 as a Christmas gift for members of the official Rammstein Fancluub.

** "Das alte Leid" keeps talking about the "same old pain". What is that pain he's talking about? Well:
--->Dieselbe Sache und das alte Leid[[note]]The same thing and the same old pain[[/note]]\\

** "Feuer Frei!" ('Fire away!'). Doesn't need much explaining.

** 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").
** 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.

** "Tier" is one to the unreleased song "Biest" which has some similar lyrics about a pedophile.

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Seemann", "Ohne Dich", "Ein Lied", "Amour", "Nebel", "Frühling in Paris", "Roter Sand", "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" and "Diamant" (the latter three are notable for not featuring any heavy guitars)... They have a fair few songs like this.

* WordSaladLyrics: "Ramm 4", a new song to open their festival concerts, is made by just mixing their older song titles together.

* VideoFullOfFilmClips: "Feuer Frei!".

* ''Lichtspielhaus''[[note]]old German word for cinema, literally "light play house"[[/note]] (2003)- A compilation of their music videos up to ''Feuer Frei!''.

** Averted with their Made in Germany tour onwards which featured AT LEAST one song from the album performed

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

* CoverVersion: They have done covers of Depeche Mode's "Stripped", The Ramones's "Pet Semetary", Kraftwerk's "Das Model" (with the title of the cover version being spelt as "Das Modell"), and Aria's "Shtil" (with the cover titled "Schtiel"). Recently, Till worked with Music/{{Apocalyptica}} to do a German cover of David Bowie's "Heroes".

-->''Ich geh jetzt heim und hole mein [[WhosLaughingNow Gewehr!]]''[[note]]I'll go home and get my gun![[/note]]

* 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 been leaked online. The remaining five tracks on "Rosenrot" were new at the time.

* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Rammstein]]''[[note]]the album is officially untitled [[/note]] (2019)

* RecordProducer: All but one of Rammstein's albums have been produced by Jacob Hellner.

* AlbumFiller: ''Rosenrot'' as a whole. In fact, most of it is composed by leftover material of the recordings for ''Reise, Reise''. Aside from "Mann Gegen Mann", "Rosenrot", "Benzin" and "Te Quiero Puta", no songs from ''Rosenrot'' were played in concerts.

* 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. All of the 1995 video for "Du riechst so gut" too. Given the heat on stage, it is probably understandable, but it also comes with some [Fanservice]

* BuxomIsBetter: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJgU9jkdU4 Dicke Titten]].