Flake Rammstein „Wir waren nicht kriminell“: Rammsteins Flake über Underground-Musik in der DDR
Christian „Flake“ Lorenz ist ein deutscher Musiker und Keyboarder der Band Rammstein. Vorher war er Mitglied der Punkband Feeling B. Christian „Flake“ Lorenz (* November in Ost-Berlin) ist ein deutscher Musiker und Keyboarder der Band Rammstein. Vorher war er Mitglied der. Wir haben den Sinn dieser Spielerlaubnis nie in Frage gestellt“: Rammstein-Keyboarder Christian „Flake“ Lorenz' im Interview mit Linus. Von der Wiedervereinigung hält Rammstein-Keyboarder Christian „Flake“ Lorenz offenbar nicht viel. © picture alliance/dpa / Christophe Gateau. Christian „Flake“ Lorenz haut nicht nur als Keyboarder bei Rammstein in die Tasten, sondern auch als Schriftsteller mittlerweile zweier Bücher. Rammstein-Keyboarder Flake über die Frage, wie er sein Leben sieht, sollte die Coronavirus-Krise „das Ende“ bedeuten – und seine. Ein Gespräch mit Keyboarder Flake über Corona, die DDR, Freiheit und den Tod. rammstein-christian-flake-lorenz-corona-tournee-heimat.
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RAMMSTEIN keyboardist 2010 Flake interview about shock rock - Raw \u0026 Uncut Da wir aber aus verschiedenen Gründen nicht zweimal bei Bekannten eingeladen wurden und die Bands uns auch nicht mehr mitnehmen wollten, weil wir durch den Verkauf von selbstgebastelten Ohrringen mehr Geld als sie mit ihren Auftritten verdienten, bewarben wir uns um eine Einstufung als Amateurband. Bis zur Cicero Newsletter. Manche Leute hatten sich angewöhnt, immer extra wach zu bleiben, Tbbt Stream English die Sendung mit John Peel von Anfang bis Ende mitzuschneiden, um alle guten Lieder zu erwischen. Seine Liebe zur Musik entdeckte Stana Katic 2019 nach eigenen Angaben zufällig. Gerald Butler ; abgerufen Flake Rammstein Und wenn Kommissarin Lucas Der Wald nicht spiele, muss ich ja nicht rumstehen.Both videos were directed by Zoran Bihac. A single of the song was released on the same day, which included an edited version of the original and a new song titled 'Gib Mir Deine Augen' as a b-side.
He indicated that the band may "start thinking" about a new album in In September , band co-founder Richard Kruspe then working with his side band, Emigrate [30] said the band was preparing some more live DVDs and that they were taking some time off from the studio.
The band would meet again in to decide if the time was right to return to the studio. According to Peter Tägtgren — who works with frontman Till Lindemann on their side-project Lindemann — Till would be regrouping with his Rammstein bandmates later in to start pre-production on a new full-length album, which normally takes two years to be released.
In early August , Rammstein released a trailer for an upcoming project, titled "In Amerika". In an interview in March , Richard Kruspe said that Rammstein had about 35 new songs that were close to completion, though the release date of the band's seventh studio album was still an open question.
Also in May, it was revealed that Sky van Hoff would be working with the band on their next album. On 18 June , it was announced via StubHub's ticketing website that Rammstein would play songs at their Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, show from their forthcoming album, then set for release late in Rammstein released the first single from their seventh album, " Deutschland ", on 28 March [47] and announced the release date of their untitled seventh studio album , 17 May Rammstein also revealed the album cover which consisted of a single, unlit match which fans say represents their love of fire and simplicity.
Shortly after its release, the album reached No. They were due to play shows in Europe and North America in , but were forced to postpone them due to the COVID pandemic impacting the two continents.
The dates were rescheduled for During the COVID pandemic, which forced the band to remain sheltered during a lockdown in Germany, the band returned to writing music, Christoph Schneider had confirmed in a German podcast.
The release will be available both digitally and physically, as a CD housed in a digipak as well as a double heavyweight, colored vinyl. Rammstein's sound has primarily been described as Neue Deutsche Härte , [58] [59] [60] [61] industrial metal , [62] [63] [64] [65] hard rock , [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] and gothic metal , [72] [73] [74] [75] while also being described as nu metal , [76] [77] [78] alternative metal , [79] symphonic metal , [80] progressive metal , [81] and " techno -metal".
New Zealand's Southland Times 17 December suggested that Till Lindemann's "booming, sub-sonic voice" would send "the peasants fleeing into their barns and bolting their doors", while The New York Times 9 January commented that on the stage, "Mr.
Lindemann gave off an air of such brute masculinity and barely contained violence that it seemed that he could have reached into the crowd, snatched up a fan, and bitten off his head".
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented that "their blend of industrial noise, grinding metal guitars, and operatic vocals is staggeringly powerful".
Nearly all of Rammstein's songs are in German. Songs they have recorded entirely or partly in English include: a cover of Depeche Mode 's song " Stripped " and English renditions of "Engel", "Du hast", and "Amerika".
Oliver Riedel commented that "[the] German language suits heavy metal music. French might be the language of love, but German is the language of anger".
The band's lyrics, as sung by Till Lindemann, are an essential element of their music, and shape the perception by fans and a wider public.
Among other things that are seen as controversial, Rammstein also refers to classical German literature, e. Also several of their songs are allegedly inspired by real-life events.
The lyrics of the song " Deutschland " contain the lines "Deutschland! Rammstein are particularly known for their over-the-top live performances, making such extensive use of pyrotechnics that fans eventually coined the motto, "Other bands play, Rammstein burns!
Following an accident in Berlin on 27 September , in which some burning decorative parts of the stage collapsed, [88] the band started using professionals to handle the pyrotechnics.
Lindemann subsequently qualified as a licensed pyrotechnician, and often spends entire songs engulfed in flames.
He has suffered multiple burns on his ears, head, and arms. The band's stage costumes are also known for being outlandish. During the Reise, Reise Tour, they wore lederhosen , corsets , and military-inspired uniforms with German steel helmets ; during the Mutter Tour , the group kept to the themes of the album artwork and descended onto the stage from a giant uterus while wearing diapers.
During the Völkerball concert, among others, Lindemann changed costumes between songs and dressed accordingly for each. For example, for the song "Mein Teil", he was dressed as a blood-soaked chef; in "Reise, Reise", he dressed as a sailor.
The rest of the band each wore their own preferred costume, but none quite as bizarre as Till's. The band's flair for costumes is evident in their music videos as well as their live shows.
In the "Keine Lust" video, all members except Lorenz are dressed in fat suits. In the "Amerika" video, all members of the band wear astronaut costumes.
Since the Mutter Tour in , Rammstein have worked with stage designer Roy Bennett, who helped the band in developing the look of the stages.
At this tour, the upper level rose over 2 meters above the stage floor and had an oval entrance just beneath the drums. At both sides of the upper level, a special lift made it possible for the band members to access both stage levels.
On the Liebe ist für alle da Tour in , the new stage still had a two-level design. This time, however, the upper level only had about half the height as on the previous tour.
Stage entrance was possible by a hydraulic ramp in the middle of the stage floor. At each end of the upper level, stairs were placed in order to gain access to both levels.
This tour included not only the extensive use of pyrotechnics, but also a massive lighting show, such as the band's logo lit up as big lamps on four enormous collapsible towers, forming the industrial backdrop of the set and being capable of different lighting effects.
During the arena shows of the Made in Germany Tour , the stage was slightly altered with new set pieces such as a large industrial fan as well as new backdrops.
The most noticeable addition was a long catwalk, connecting the main stage to a smaller stage in the middle of the audience. During the festival leg of the tour, the bridge and smaller stage were omitted.
According to Kruspe, the onstage antics are meant to get people's attention and have fun at the same time; Rammstein's motto, according to Schneider, is "do your own thing and overdo it".
Kruspe said of the stage show in July , "You have to understand that 99 per cent of the people don't understand the lyrics, so you have to come up with something to keep the drama in the show.
We have to do something. We like to have a show; we like to play with fire. We do have a sense of humour.
We do laugh about it; we have fun [ We take the music and the lyrics seriously. It's a combination of humour, theatre, and our East German culture, you know?
Their antics have also garnered controversy. In one of their more infamous moments, Lindemann engaged in simulated sodomy with Lorenz during their performance of "Bück dich" in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The New York Times described Rammstein's music as a "powerful strain of brutally intense rock Till and Flake's stage act earned them a night in jail in June after a liquid-ejecting dildo was used in a concert in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Back home in Germany, the band faced repeated accusations of fascist sympathies because of the dark and sometimes militaristic imagery of their videos and concerts, including the use of excerpts from the film Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl in the video for their cover of Depeche Mode's song "Stripped".
MTV Germany studied the lyrics, talked to the band and came away satisfied that Rammstein are apolitical; Peter Ruppert, then head of Music Programming at MTV Germany, stated that the band "aren't in any way connected with any right-wing activities".
Their cover of their debut album Herzeleid , released in Germany in , showed the band members bare-chested in a style that resembled Strength Through Joy in the eyes of some critics, who accused the band of trying to sell themselves as "poster boys for the Master Race ".
Lorenz, annoyed by the claim, has remarked it is just a photo, and should be understood as such. Herzeleid has since been given a different cover in North America, depicting the band members' faces.
The video of Deutschland , released in , sparked further controversy, as it portrays black German actress Ruby Commey appearing as Germania , which has been described as a "a calculated affront to German nationalists".
Rammstein were cited in relation to the Columbine High School massacre in , when a photo of Eric Harris wearing a Rammstein T-shirt was revealed in his 11th grade picture and written the Rammstein logo on a yearbook he signed.
In response to the shooting, the band issued a statement:. The members of Rammstein express their condolences and sympathy to all affected by the recent tragic events in Denver.
They wish to make it clear that they have no lyrical content or political beliefs that could have possibly influenced such behaviour. Additionally, members of Rammstein have children of their own, in whom they continually strive to instill healthy and non-violent values.
Coincidentally, on 10 September , the single and video clip of Ich will "I Want" was released which portrays the band as bank robbers who want to get a message across and receiving a Goldene Kamera Golden Camera award, a German version of the Emmy award, for their "actions".
In the United States, the video clip was broadcast only late at night after the attacks of 11 September , although many media officials and politicians requested the video to be pulled from broadcast completely.
Following the conclusion of the Beslan school hostage crisis in Russia in September , the Russian authorities claimed that the terrorists had "listened to German hard rock group Rammstein on personal stereos during the siege to keep themselves edgy and fired up".
There's been a lot of talk about that, but if there are radical feelings in people anything can wake them — a painting, a picture, whatever.
It's just a coincidence that it happened to be our music. It's important to think about what caused them to make their decisions, how they became animals, not their taste in music.
Whenever something like this happens it's like "Okay, let's blame the artist". Such bullshit. Our music is made to release aggression, and people listening to it are also needed to do that, but it's not our fault.
Should we stop making hard music because bad people might like it? Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the perpetrator of the Jokela school shooting in November , also included Rammstein in one of his favorite bands.
However, he noted that the music among other things was not to blame for his decisions. On a lyric video of Mein Herz brennt , Rodger wrote: "[G]reat song to listen to while daydreaming about being a powerful ruler".
Even though Rodger wrote in his manifesto that he wished to become a dictator and punish all the people who rejected him, there was no direct link found between the band's music and the killing spree.
The Trollhättan school attack perpetrator, Anton Lundin Pettersson, used a manipulated version of the band's logo that added Nazi Germany's eagle on his Facebook page.
In October , the video for " Mein Teil " "My part" caused considerable controversy in Germany when it was released.
It takes a darkly comic view of the Armin Meiwes cannibalism case, showing a cross-dressed Schneider holding the other five band members on a leash and rolling around in mud.
The controversy did nothing to stop the single rising to No. Meiwes who was convicted of manslaughter in , then retried in and found guilty of murder [] brought a lawsuit in January against the band for infringement of rights to the story.
The band's own views of its image are sanguine; Landers has said: "We like being on the fringes of bad taste". But it serves a purpose. We like audiences to grapple with our music, and people have become more receptive".
The video for "Pussy" was released September It features hardcore pornographic scenes of nudity along with women engaging in sexual activity with body doubles of the band members.
It is the third Rammstein video to include nudity. On 5 November , their sixth studio album, Liebe ist für alle da , was placed on the Index of the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien or BPjM Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young People , making it illegal in Germany to make the album accessible to minors or display it where it can be seen by people underage, effectively banning it from stores.
Furthermore, the advisory board took into consideration the alleged promotion of unprotected sexual intercourse in the lyrics to "Pussy".
The band, as well as several members of the German press, reacted with astonishment to the decision. Keyboardist Christian Lorenz expressed surprise at the advisory board's "parochial sense of art" and regretted their apparent inability to detect irony.
On 9 June, the band announced on their official website that the original version of the album was already available at their shop and that a release of the single "Ich tu dir weh" in Germany was planned in a short period of time.
In October , the album was judged not harmful to minors and deleted from the Index. In , Rammstein settled out of court against Apocalyptica 's former record label Sony Music Entertainment GmbH as the successor of the by now defunct affiliated label Gun Records for using Rammstein's label in marketing Apocalyptica's album Worlds Collide , which featured a track with singer Lindemann.
Twark, Axel Hildebrandt on the song "Amerika" []. The band wrote the song " Links " Links being German for "left" as a riposte to early claims that the band were neo-Nazis , and to affirm that they reside on the left side of the political spectrum.
In a interview with Rolling Stone , when asked about Nazi accusations, Lindemann stated "We come from the East and we have grown up as socialists.
We used to be either punks or Goths — we hate Nazis! And then, such a far-fetched accusation. We are doing exactly the same thing today, but no one in America or in Mexico would even get the idea to come up with something like that.
This only happens in Germany. Our reply to this animosity was, "Links ", and with that, we had made it clear where we stand politically. It's simple.
If you want to put us in a political category, we're on the left side, and that's the reason we made the song".
Drum links, zwei, drei! Then left, two, three! Another key lyric expressing the band's allegiance to the left paraphrases the titles of newspaper columns published side by side for several years in the German newspaper Bild : "Mein Herz schlägt links" "My heart beats on the left" by The Left Party co-chair and former Social Democratic Party of Germany chair Oskar Lafontaine , and "Mein Herz schlägt auf dem rechten Fleck" "My heart beats in the right place" by Peter Gauweiler of the conservative Christian Social Union.
The band also wrote the song " Amerika " as a critique of the worldwide cultural and political imperialism of the United States. Twark and Axel Hildebrandt found that the song's text and most of its video's images point toward a critique of America's cultural imperialism, political propaganda, and self-assumed role as global police force.
The song responds critically to the US invasion of Iraq in They also found that another song of theirs that is critical of the United States is " Mein Land ", believing that it critiques American racism and nationalism.
At their concert in Moscow five days later, guitarists Kruspe and Landers kissed onstage, while they embraced each other during a concert in Saint Petersburg on 2 August.
The band's support for gay rights was met with criticism in Russia. Vitaly Milonov , a member of the State Duma called the band "idiots" and said: "If they think it possible to behave in such a way, they should also consider it possible to keep this garbage away from us.
Richard Kruspe , []. Since their formation in , Rammstein have had no changes in their line-up. Richard Kruspe had said in a Revolver Magazine interview that it is because of the band respecting each other's wishes to take a break, either for personal reasons or to focus on a side project.
Kruspe currently fronts the group Emigrate while Till Lindemann began his project Lindemann in Christian "Flake" Lorenz — keyboards.
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We take care of each other, and if somebody needs to take the time off or do something else, we listen. Rammstein band members. Till Lindemann — vocals.
Richard Kruspe — lead guitar. Paul Landers — rhythm guitar. Oliver Riedel — bass guitar. Christoph Schneider — drums.
Main article: Rammstein discography. Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Rammstein.
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The group disbanded in the mids. On special occasions, the band members would get together for concerts at punk festivals, until Rompe died in November of an asthma attack.
Paul Landers formally joined the band, followed by Lorenz. He was initially reluctant to join his five bandmates and had to be pestered into becoming a member of Rammstein, as he thought they would be too boring.
In early live performances of the song " Bück dich " "Bend down" or "Bend over" , Lorenz and vocalist Till Lindemann engaged in simulated sodomy with a liquor-squirting dildo.
A statement from Sergeant Thomas Radula of the Worcester Police Department stated that Lindemann was simulating sex with Lorenz onstage "using a phallic object that shot water over the crowd".
Until , Lorenz would "surf" the audience in an inflatable rubber dinghy during the performance of " Seemann " "Seaman".
Riedel took his place in According to Lorenz, the change occurred because he was injured too often. During a concert in St. Petersburg , Lorenz was tipped out of the boat by the crowd and almost completely undressed.
During a concert in Gothenburg , Sweden on 30 July , Till Lindemann suffered a knee injury when Lorenz accidentally ran into him with the Segway he rides during the performance of " Amerika " "America".
This caused concerts scheduled in Asia to be cancelled. In , Lorenz suffered from mumps , causing concerts in South America to be cancelled.
Lorenz has been divorced once and has five children. He has a brother who is four years older. Lorenz is an amateur painter [ citation needed ] and likes classic cars.
He has a Mercedes and is involved in the vintage car hire business. The police managed to identify and capture the arsonist, a year-old male with a criminal record.
After Lorenz escaped, he crashed his car nearby. Lorenz commonly goes by the nicknames "Flake" pronounced as "Flak-eh" in German and "Doktor".
In a 16 December interview, he stated that "Flake" is his proper name. Lorenz has stated "I disapprove of religions which are made into rigid institutions.
I also think that religious fanaticism and missionary work are dangerous. Lorenz has a distaste towards the United States, which he has called a "sick and decadent country with no culture".
When asked how he felt about the reunification of Germany, he said he misses the way things were then. The increased size of the world also brought the danger of being compared to all of the international acts.
The bands which were in the east were the only ones there, and if you were successful there, you were successful. I miss the simplicity.
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Artikel teilen: Gefällt mir. Amateurband war die untere Stufe. Er sagte später in einem Interviewbuch:. So einen Menschen hatte ich noch nie erlebt. Selbstverständlich eine Frage der James Marsden Filme & Fernsehsendungen, im älter werden, hoffentlich. O-Ton ab ca. Ganz kurz Bourne Identität Kinox ich enttäuscht, bis ich merkte, wie Einhorn Film alle diese Lieder waren, die ich überhört hatte, weil es nicht das war, was ich kannte. Hier lebt der Keyboarder von Deutschlands erfolgreichster Musikband Rammstein, hierher zieht Christian Lorenz, genannt Flake, sich zurück, wenn die Stadien Flake Rammstein haben. Einer nur sagte, sein Kumpel hätte ihn gefragt: Sage mal, was ist denn der da für ein cooler Typ, dem ist ja gar nichts peinlich.New Zealand's Southland Times 17 December suggested that Till Lindemann's "booming, sub-sonic voice" would send "the peasants fleeing into their barns and bolting their doors", while The New York Times 9 January commented that on the stage, "Mr.
Lindemann gave off an air of such brute masculinity and barely contained violence that it seemed that he could have reached into the crowd, snatched up a fan, and bitten off his head".
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented that "their blend of industrial noise, grinding metal guitars, and operatic vocals is staggeringly powerful".
Nearly all of Rammstein's songs are in German. Songs they have recorded entirely or partly in English include: a cover of Depeche Mode 's song " Stripped " and English renditions of "Engel", "Du hast", and "Amerika".
Oliver Riedel commented that "[the] German language suits heavy metal music. French might be the language of love, but German is the language of anger".
The band's lyrics, as sung by Till Lindemann, are an essential element of their music, and shape the perception by fans and a wider public.
Among other things that are seen as controversial, Rammstein also refers to classical German literature, e. Also several of their songs are allegedly inspired by real-life events.
The lyrics of the song " Deutschland " contain the lines "Deutschland! Rammstein are particularly known for their over-the-top live performances, making such extensive use of pyrotechnics that fans eventually coined the motto, "Other bands play, Rammstein burns!
Following an accident in Berlin on 27 September , in which some burning decorative parts of the stage collapsed, [88] the band started using professionals to handle the pyrotechnics.
Lindemann subsequently qualified as a licensed pyrotechnician, and often spends entire songs engulfed in flames. He has suffered multiple burns on his ears, head, and arms.
The band's stage costumes are also known for being outlandish. During the Reise, Reise Tour, they wore lederhosen , corsets , and military-inspired uniforms with German steel helmets ; during the Mutter Tour , the group kept to the themes of the album artwork and descended onto the stage from a giant uterus while wearing diapers.
During the Völkerball concert, among others, Lindemann changed costumes between songs and dressed accordingly for each.
For example, for the song "Mein Teil", he was dressed as a blood-soaked chef; in "Reise, Reise", he dressed as a sailor.
The rest of the band each wore their own preferred costume, but none quite as bizarre as Till's. The band's flair for costumes is evident in their music videos as well as their live shows.
In the "Keine Lust" video, all members except Lorenz are dressed in fat suits. In the "Amerika" video, all members of the band wear astronaut costumes.
Since the Mutter Tour in , Rammstein have worked with stage designer Roy Bennett, who helped the band in developing the look of the stages.
At this tour, the upper level rose over 2 meters above the stage floor and had an oval entrance just beneath the drums. At both sides of the upper level, a special lift made it possible for the band members to access both stage levels.
On the Liebe ist für alle da Tour in , the new stage still had a two-level design. This time, however, the upper level only had about half the height as on the previous tour.
Stage entrance was possible by a hydraulic ramp in the middle of the stage floor. At each end of the upper level, stairs were placed in order to gain access to both levels.
This tour included not only the extensive use of pyrotechnics, but also a massive lighting show, such as the band's logo lit up as big lamps on four enormous collapsible towers, forming the industrial backdrop of the set and being capable of different lighting effects.
During the arena shows of the Made in Germany Tour , the stage was slightly altered with new set pieces such as a large industrial fan as well as new backdrops.
The most noticeable addition was a long catwalk, connecting the main stage to a smaller stage in the middle of the audience. During the festival leg of the tour, the bridge and smaller stage were omitted.
According to Kruspe, the onstage antics are meant to get people's attention and have fun at the same time; Rammstein's motto, according to Schneider, is "do your own thing and overdo it".
Kruspe said of the stage show in July , "You have to understand that 99 per cent of the people don't understand the lyrics, so you have to come up with something to keep the drama in the show.
We have to do something. We like to have a show; we like to play with fire. We do have a sense of humour. We do laugh about it; we have fun [ We take the music and the lyrics seriously.
It's a combination of humour, theatre, and our East German culture, you know? Their antics have also garnered controversy.
In one of their more infamous moments, Lindemann engaged in simulated sodomy with Lorenz during their performance of "Bück dich" in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The New York Times described Rammstein's music as a "powerful strain of brutally intense rock Till and Flake's stage act earned them a night in jail in June after a liquid-ejecting dildo was used in a concert in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Back home in Germany, the band faced repeated accusations of fascist sympathies because of the dark and sometimes militaristic imagery of their videos and concerts, including the use of excerpts from the film Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl in the video for their cover of Depeche Mode's song "Stripped".
MTV Germany studied the lyrics, talked to the band and came away satisfied that Rammstein are apolitical; Peter Ruppert, then head of Music Programming at MTV Germany, stated that the band "aren't in any way connected with any right-wing activities".
Their cover of their debut album Herzeleid , released in Germany in , showed the band members bare-chested in a style that resembled Strength Through Joy in the eyes of some critics, who accused the band of trying to sell themselves as "poster boys for the Master Race ".
Lorenz, annoyed by the claim, has remarked it is just a photo, and should be understood as such. Herzeleid has since been given a different cover in North America, depicting the band members' faces.
The video of Deutschland , released in , sparked further controversy, as it portrays black German actress Ruby Commey appearing as Germania , which has been described as a "a calculated affront to German nationalists".
Rammstein were cited in relation to the Columbine High School massacre in , when a photo of Eric Harris wearing a Rammstein T-shirt was revealed in his 11th grade picture and written the Rammstein logo on a yearbook he signed.
In response to the shooting, the band issued a statement:. The members of Rammstein express their condolences and sympathy to all affected by the recent tragic events in Denver.
They wish to make it clear that they have no lyrical content or political beliefs that could have possibly influenced such behaviour.
Additionally, members of Rammstein have children of their own, in whom they continually strive to instill healthy and non-violent values.
Coincidentally, on 10 September , the single and video clip of Ich will "I Want" was released which portrays the band as bank robbers who want to get a message across and receiving a Goldene Kamera Golden Camera award, a German version of the Emmy award, for their "actions".
In the United States, the video clip was broadcast only late at night after the attacks of 11 September , although many media officials and politicians requested the video to be pulled from broadcast completely.
Following the conclusion of the Beslan school hostage crisis in Russia in September , the Russian authorities claimed that the terrorists had "listened to German hard rock group Rammstein on personal stereos during the siege to keep themselves edgy and fired up".
There's been a lot of talk about that, but if there are radical feelings in people anything can wake them — a painting, a picture, whatever.
It's just a coincidence that it happened to be our music. It's important to think about what caused them to make their decisions, how they became animals, not their taste in music.
Whenever something like this happens it's like "Okay, let's blame the artist". Such bullshit. Our music is made to release aggression, and people listening to it are also needed to do that, but it's not our fault.
Should we stop making hard music because bad people might like it? Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the perpetrator of the Jokela school shooting in November , also included Rammstein in one of his favorite bands.
However, he noted that the music among other things was not to blame for his decisions. On a lyric video of Mein Herz brennt , Rodger wrote: "[G]reat song to listen to while daydreaming about being a powerful ruler".
Even though Rodger wrote in his manifesto that he wished to become a dictator and punish all the people who rejected him, there was no direct link found between the band's music and the killing spree.
The Trollhättan school attack perpetrator, Anton Lundin Pettersson, used a manipulated version of the band's logo that added Nazi Germany's eagle on his Facebook page.
In October , the video for " Mein Teil " "My part" caused considerable controversy in Germany when it was released. It takes a darkly comic view of the Armin Meiwes cannibalism case, showing a cross-dressed Schneider holding the other five band members on a leash and rolling around in mud.
The controversy did nothing to stop the single rising to No. Meiwes who was convicted of manslaughter in , then retried in and found guilty of murder [] brought a lawsuit in January against the band for infringement of rights to the story.
The band's own views of its image are sanguine; Landers has said: "We like being on the fringes of bad taste". But it serves a purpose. We like audiences to grapple with our music, and people have become more receptive".
The video for "Pussy" was released September It features hardcore pornographic scenes of nudity along with women engaging in sexual activity with body doubles of the band members.
It is the third Rammstein video to include nudity. On 5 November , their sixth studio album, Liebe ist für alle da , was placed on the Index of the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien or BPjM Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young People , making it illegal in Germany to make the album accessible to minors or display it where it can be seen by people underage, effectively banning it from stores.
Furthermore, the advisory board took into consideration the alleged promotion of unprotected sexual intercourse in the lyrics to "Pussy". The band, as well as several members of the German press, reacted with astonishment to the decision.
Keyboardist Christian Lorenz expressed surprise at the advisory board's "parochial sense of art" and regretted their apparent inability to detect irony.
On 9 June, the band announced on their official website that the original version of the album was already available at their shop and that a release of the single "Ich tu dir weh" in Germany was planned in a short period of time.
In October , the album was judged not harmful to minors and deleted from the Index. In , Rammstein settled out of court against Apocalyptica 's former record label Sony Music Entertainment GmbH as the successor of the by now defunct affiliated label Gun Records for using Rammstein's label in marketing Apocalyptica's album Worlds Collide , which featured a track with singer Lindemann.
Twark, Axel Hildebrandt on the song "Amerika" []. The band wrote the song " Links " Links being German for "left" as a riposte to early claims that the band were neo-Nazis , and to affirm that they reside on the left side of the political spectrum.
In a interview with Rolling Stone , when asked about Nazi accusations, Lindemann stated "We come from the East and we have grown up as socialists.
We used to be either punks or Goths — we hate Nazis! And then, such a far-fetched accusation. We are doing exactly the same thing today, but no one in America or in Mexico would even get the idea to come up with something like that.
This only happens in Germany. Our reply to this animosity was, "Links ", and with that, we had made it clear where we stand politically.
It's simple. If you want to put us in a political category, we're on the left side, and that's the reason we made the song". Drum links, zwei, drei!
Then left, two, three! Another key lyric expressing the band's allegiance to the left paraphrases the titles of newspaper columns published side by side for several years in the German newspaper Bild : "Mein Herz schlägt links" "My heart beats on the left" by The Left Party co-chair and former Social Democratic Party of Germany chair Oskar Lafontaine , and "Mein Herz schlägt auf dem rechten Fleck" "My heart beats in the right place" by Peter Gauweiler of the conservative Christian Social Union.
The band also wrote the song " Amerika " as a critique of the worldwide cultural and political imperialism of the United States.
Twark and Axel Hildebrandt found that the song's text and most of its video's images point toward a critique of America's cultural imperialism, political propaganda, and self-assumed role as global police force.
The song responds critically to the US invasion of Iraq in They also found that another song of theirs that is critical of the United States is " Mein Land ", believing that it critiques American racism and nationalism.
At their concert in Moscow five days later, guitarists Kruspe and Landers kissed onstage, while they embraced each other during a concert in Saint Petersburg on 2 August.
The band's support for gay rights was met with criticism in Russia. Vitaly Milonov , a member of the State Duma called the band "idiots" and said: "If they think it possible to behave in such a way, they should also consider it possible to keep this garbage away from us.
Richard Kruspe , []. Since their formation in , Rammstein have had no changes in their line-up.
Richard Kruspe had said in a Revolver Magazine interview that it is because of the band respecting each other's wishes to take a break, either for personal reasons or to focus on a side project.
Kruspe currently fronts the group Emigrate while Till Lindemann began his project Lindemann in Christian "Flake" Lorenz — keyboards.
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New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Two jackets a month meant as much money as an average salaried worker. The group disbanded in the mids.
On special occasions, the band members would get together for concerts at punk festivals, until Rompe died in November of an asthma attack.
Paul Landers formally joined the band, followed by Lorenz. He was initially reluctant to join his five bandmates and had to be pestered into becoming a member of Rammstein, as he thought they would be too boring.
In early live performances of the song " Bück dich " "Bend down" or "Bend over" , Lorenz and vocalist Till Lindemann engaged in simulated sodomy with a liquor-squirting dildo.
A statement from Sergeant Thomas Radula of the Worcester Police Department stated that Lindemann was simulating sex with Lorenz onstage "using a phallic object that shot water over the crowd".
Until , Lorenz would "surf" the audience in an inflatable rubber dinghy during the performance of " Seemann " "Seaman". Riedel took his place in According to Lorenz, the change occurred because he was injured too often.
During a concert in St. Petersburg , Lorenz was tipped out of the boat by the crowd and almost completely undressed. During a concert in Gothenburg , Sweden on 30 July , Till Lindemann suffered a knee injury when Lorenz accidentally ran into him with the Segway he rides during the performance of " Amerika " "America".
This caused concerts scheduled in Asia to be cancelled. In , Lorenz suffered from mumps , causing concerts in South America to be cancelled.
Lorenz has been divorced once and has five children. He has a brother who is four years older. Lorenz is an amateur painter [ citation needed ] and likes classic cars.
He has a Mercedes and is involved in the vintage car hire business. The police managed to identify and capture the arsonist, a year-old male with a criminal record.
After Lorenz escaped, he crashed his car nearby. Lorenz commonly goes by the nicknames "Flake" pronounced as "Flak-eh" in German and "Doktor".
In a 16 December interview, he stated that "Flake" is his proper name. Lorenz has stated "I disapprove of religions which are made into rigid institutions.
I also think that religious fanaticism and missionary work are dangerous. Lorenz has a distaste towards the United States, which he has called a "sick and decadent country with no culture".
When asked how he felt about the reunification of Germany, he said he misses the way things were then. The increased size of the world also brought the danger of being compared to all of the international acts.
The bands which were in the east were the only ones there, and if you were successful there, you were successful. I miss the simplicity.
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Manche Leute hatten sich angewöhnt, immer extra wach zu bleiben, um die Sendung mit John Peel von Anfang bis Ende mitzuschneiden, um alle guten Lieder zu erwischen. Das digitale Monatsabo kann nach drei Monaten jederzeit mit einer Frist von 7 Tagen zum Ablauf des Bezugzeitraums gekündigt werden. Seine Schulzeit beschreibt der Musiker als schwierig, da er stotterte und von Mitschülern gehänselt und in Müllcontainer gesperrt wurde.Flake Rammstein - Service Navigation
Er begann, die Bluesplatten seines Vaters zu hören und dachte sich eigene Stücke aus, die er gemeinsam mit einem Freund auf Kassette aufnahm, um sie anderen vorzuspielen. In Summt regnet es, als wir uns treffen. Laut Lorenz konnten vier Personen sie tragen. Einmal war ich auf einer Party bei einer Künstlerin, die ziemlich viele Westplatten hatte.
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