Trivia / Rammstein

• Better Export for You:
  • 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 "Links 2-3-4" 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.
• Colbert Bump: Rammsteins' songs seem to be used as a Bootstrapped Theme for the remakes of the Destroy All Humans! games, and have featured in two trailers so far:
  • "Ich will" got a huge one after the Destroy All Humans! (2020) trailer released.
  • "Amerika" is used for the trailer for that sequels' remake (with the music video also being directly parodied).
• Creator Backlash:
  • Schneider's made it clear in an interview that he finds "Pussy" to be "completely stupid", and, in a 2010 Metal Hammer interview, he thought the same of the deluxe dildo boxset of Liebe ist für alle da.
  • Flake mentioned he wasn't satisfied with Sharleen Spiteri's guest performance on "Stirb nicht von mir (Don't Die Before I Do)", and preferred the German version with their old collaborator Christiane "Bobo" Herbold (known to fans for her cameo in "Engel") instead.
  • The music video for their cover of "Stripped" was lifted from a Nazi propaganda film about the Berlin Olympiad, and the band has received death threats for this. The band have stated before that while they appreciate the cinematography, they absolutely disdain the politics, and somewhat regret making that video.
  • The band also hated the original video for "Du Riechst So Gut", so much so that they recorded a new video for the song in 1998.
• Cut Song:
  • 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).
• Dye Hard: Richard's a natural blond who kept it that way in the band's early days, but tends to keep his hair dyed black nowadays. Also, Flake has dyed his hair various different colors over the years. For a short period of time, the band was all dyed bright red.
• Dyeing for Your Art: In the music video for "Ich tu dir weh" and during the Liebe ist für alle da tour, there is an LED light inside Till's mouth. The tech guys and band suggested that they stick a flesh-colored cable to Till's cheek, arguing that the closest the audience would be to him during the tour would be about five meters. Till, however, insisted on having a hole drilled into his cheek so they could put the cable into his mouth through it.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The video of the Live aus Berlin performance of "Bück dich". Only some VHS tapes had it on there, later tapes and the DVD do not...until March of 2020 when all of a sudden, a Reissue of the DVD restoring the performance of "Bück dich" was released.
  • Most of the video recording of their September 1996 Berlin concert. Only a very limited amount of VHS tapes containing it was produced and sent out to Official Fanclub members as a Christmas gift that year. Aside from two clips^note The first one contains the songs "Herzeleid" and "Seemann" and was released on the Band's Lichtspielhaus DVD in 2003 (and uploaded to their YouTube Channel in 2017), the second one contains "Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?" and was released on some editions of the "Stripped" CD Single in 1999. Other footage from the concert can also be seen in the Music video for "Rammstein" and the 2015 Documentary "Rammstein in Amerika".VHS Rips on YouTube are all that is available to the general public.
  • The early songs which either evolved into separate works or simply were not put on albums would also count. Ex: "Feuerräder", "Schwarzes Glas", "Jeder Lacht", etc. Some of these are included in a Spotify-exclusive rarities album.
• Offer Void in Nebraska: Liebe ist für alle da got indexed and the song "Ich tu dir weh" had to be removed from future copies of the album to be sold without age restrictions. However, that's only effective in Switzerland, and Austria. All other countries could buy the uncensored album. Germany's ban was lifted.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • The extra vocals on "Spieluhr" were performed by Richard's daughter, Khira Li Lindemann^note Her mother is Till's ex-wife who kept his name, Richard never married her so their child was given Till's surname.
  • The whistling on "Roter Sand" and "Liese" was performed by Flake's wife, Jenny Rosemeyer.
• Referenced by...:
  • The American Professional Wrestling Power Stable Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes first used "Engel" as its Real Song Theme Tune.
  • French youtuber LinksTheSun's pseudonym is a reference to "Links 2,3,4". Also, one of his videos is a critique of "Seemann".
  • Apocalyptica covered "Seemann" with Nina Hagen on vocals.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The album Rosenrot was originally called Reise, Reise Volume Two. Half of its contents are leftovers from Reise, Reise.
  • The music video for Sonne was originally about the Hiroshima bombing. The band was watching Snow White while stoned one day, and the rest is history. Sure does put that One-Woman Wail in context...
  • In a case of "What Couldn't Have Been": Rammstein might not have been created if not for the premature curtailing of Till's potential Olympic swimming career. This was caused by a combination of a stomach injury and for sneaking out to buy porn magazines and getting caught in the act, leading to him getting kicked off the team. This is alluded to on the Völkerball cover: the emblem on it is identical to the 1980 Summer Olympics emblem, the Olympics he would have participated in. Had he competed, it's a high likelihood he would have won, seeing as that was the year the Soviet Union swept the Olympics since the United States refused to compete.
  • The Russian vocals on "Moskau" were originally supposed to be provided by t.A.T.u..

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