How Rammstein Defied The Odds & Conquered The World 

Respekt , you did it

That’s what therapy will do for you

Hey dude i have a question could you also make a video about lordi?

Finn I went through your link and bought a pair to try out, but they instantly offered a higher discount code than the punkrock one😬. Hopefully they can see that they're getting some customers through your sponsorship by using the link! Supporting the supporters!

PLS PLS PLS, watch Deutschland with english subtitle, it makes a important difference. The girl in the Video shall represent "Germania".

True professionals, just like Weird Al’s band.

Late 80s? They formed in 1995 and were in other bands earlier.

​@@astronomical13 yep, Rammstein and Weird Al: Two peas in a pod.

@@sloppynyuszi 1995? They formed at the end of 1993, in early 1994 they were doing concerts already.

That's a sign of band thats here to stay. Look at a7x, both, Metallica

Oh hey there! I'm a subscriber and regular viewer, funny to see you commenting in the wild, and to see that you like Rammstein.

Nah. You don't have to be that hyperbolic. They're a cool band though and have wide appeal. How many centuries has "heavy music" existed, anyway? What are you comparing them to centuries ago, Beethoven? Metal has existed for far less than a century, so shouldn't you wait another 50 years or so before you declare the band of the century? How come people can't just say they love something without making unrealistically grandiose statements.

@@BlueZirnitra Cool response, Ben. I take back nothing I said.

@@johannesbullesbach8721 Small internet world.

Yes!! My favorite band for that reason.

Which is very much German in itself

Well said. One thing that struck me is - I very seldom hear an actual guitar solo. (Sometimes a keyboard solo, yes.) They seem unconcerned with fitting into a mold.

Different genre. But I noticed a similar trait with Dr Dre. All his biggest hits are actually really simple.

Yep they are like if their are Nu metal band witth that simple badass groove riffs Mix with industrial element because Nu metal bands play simple not complicated riffs and rarley play guitar solos like Nu metal bands and also it Dark so Rammstein music is Mix of Pantera +Black Sabath +Type O Negative+ Laibach+system of Down + Marlin Manson+ Die Krupps Symphonic Opera and many more their sond so mix they dont only sond and play only the NDH that way their sond is so different compare to the others NDH bands because they play them and that the answer the end

​@@TheVoxbox13Nu Metal Bands don't play guitar solos 🤔

the song in combination gives me chills.

I'd say "Christmas Truce" by Sabaton is the only other music video to fight for this spot, but Rammstein still wins without doubt

There were so many German historical references about their shame, it really makes you feel bad for the current generation that has to live through the events of the earth 20th century

In one of the interview I remember they said that they sometimes go to group therapy sessions, sort of like marriage counseling, to keep the personal tensions in the band as low as possible.

They also come from a very different place than most bands these boys were all born behind the wall, they were all raised in communism, and they all had a career lined up for them that they did not want or like. Differences all the other bands from the West are used to being selfish are used to being free are used to getting whatever they want, these boys didn't even understand that concept until the wall fell when they were in their twenties

@@SMJSmoK They also make all their creative decisions by consensus.

I remember one interview where Till said if one of the members left they would just end the group. It's only Rammstein with all of them.

I had just moved to Hamburg with a working holiday visa when they released it and it was so serendipitous

I watched a video of a historian explaining all of the historical elements of the music video. There is nothing random in it, everything is symbolically accurate.

Check the Lyrics...the depth is brutal man :)

that video inspired Iron Maiden for their song "Writings on the Wall"

The Deutschland video is the best music video of all time. Period. Nothing compares.

Yeah, just like he said at the end of the video, Rammstein are one of the few contemporary bands that has realized that it's not just about the music and that if you want to make it big, you have to evolve into more than just a band, you have to develop into a whole piece of art, and that's what they did and what they are incredibly good at. Their special, unique musical and visual style and the show they put on are just perfect in every way. There are only few actual bands that are so good at doing that, the only other ones that come close are Slipknot and Lordi.

Agree with you, saw them in 2012, I think it's the best sound of any concert I've been too.

I think it is remarkable that they have managed to become internationally known. And that with German texts. 🤗

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Yeah, it's definitely the stomping rhythms that make them transcend their genre (whatever you wanna categorize them as). They are heavy without being heavy metal.

Love your comment

LUCKY! I hope one day I get to see them in concert

Just like the days of Deutsches Jungvolk of 1922.

I love Rammstein and I think Till sounds super cool when he sings, just please note that not a single person here sounds like that when they speak XD Heck, even Hitler spoke completely normal "offstage". It was an act to project more and be more captivating. Real german sounds very very different, much much MUCH softer. Cheers :)

@@muenchhausenmusic well, lets not forget that Rammstein has lots of softer songs.

People still have negative feelings about Germans and Germany. They repeat the idea that German is an ugly language ad nauseum without having a clue. Rammstein don't use German to make German or themselves sound cool. Their lyrics are simply aimed at a German audience. Many bands sing in German. Rammstein just happens to be popular abroad as well. I guess they are the most internationally famous German singing band of all time.

@@gulliverthegullible6667 Yeah, they sing german because it's their mother tongue and when they started, they probably never thought they'd become that big, especially outside of the German-speaking world. Bun then again, it was still kinda daring for them to sing in German as in the 90s, there was not much German-speaking pop and rock music around here in Germany. Most German bands tried to copy American and British bands and sang in English, so aside from a few older acts that somehow had always been there (Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, Böhse Onkelz, Herbert Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg) German-language rock and pop was hardly popular in the mainstream even in German-sepaking countries.

@@f3rny_66 that does not contradict my statements.

Agree! Not sure I can fully appreciate the nuances since I'm not a native speaker but I'm convinced it has helped their success. I would wager that it have boosted the interest in the German language and it gives a deeper meaning to the music when you can ponder the meaning of the lyrics and perhaps find your own interpretation. I mean, _I love you babe! Yeah Yeah Yea!!_ doesn't leave much for the imagination...

​@@joppek77 -- 😇😍 I like your example "I love you babe! Yeah Yeah Yeah!!". You are so right. Let's have a quick view at "Frühling in Paris" (Spring in Paris). The (probably autobiographic song) is about a young man who looses his virginity with a prostitute in Paris. See the English lyrics here: -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1wHYlI9tosU.html I mark the unusual, poetic words with *. Frühling in Paris Im Lichtkleid* kam sie auf mich zu ich weiß es noch wie heut' Ich war so jung --- -- I never heard this word in any other context, but it's easy to understand, it's just a compound auf the very basic words Licht + Kleid. It fits the context with Frühling / Licht / Kleid (so not dark winter coat) and Paris, "the city of light" (if you didn't do so far, try to visit Paris in spring, it has a unique light like a pastel painting, which you will never forget). -- In German it's normal to use compound words like Licht/kleid. The English translation has "a dress made of light", which imo is less strong because of the "super-fluent" "made of". Is the translation correct? Lichtkleid is so seldom, that it has no fixed meaning. Maybe it's better to translate with "a dress shining / bright as light", "a dress reflecting the light", etc. A well known problem when translating from the very concise, laconic German to English. -- Frühling is related to jung (young), the year and the protagonist just awakened from winter and childhood and are still young. Both words bracket the title and the first three lines. -- The title reminds of the play Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening, 1891) by Frank Wedekind. See Wikipedia: "The play criticises perceived problems in the sexually oppressive culture of nineteenth century (Fin de siècle) Germany and offers a vivid dramatisation of the erotic fantasies that can breed in such an environment." About Till's erotic fantasies as a 15 y. old swimmer is the song "Feuer und Wasser" (Wenn sie brustschwimmt ist das schön, // dann kann ich in ihr Zentrum sehen.). He dreams about having sex with his swim mate, but is too shy, too awkward to approach her. Only a few years later, in Paris, he will have his sexual awakening, and then not with a girl of the national swim team, but with a prostitute. --- hab mich geniert doch hab' es nie bereut. I'll continue in a new comment.

bernardo -- 2nd part Sie rief mir Worte ins Gesicht* die Zunge lustgesträubt* --- -- every day German "Sie rief mir Worte entgegen / zu", "Sie sprach mich an". -- "lust/gesträubt": Never heard this compound word in another context. Maybe only because of the rhyme "gesträubt / bereut". -- the rhyme is simpel as the words: AB-AB --- Verstand nur ihre Sprache nicht; ich hab' es nicht bereut. Oh non, rien de rien Oh non je ne regrette rien -- These two lines in French are a quotation of the chorus and the title of one of the most famous songs (1960) by the well known French singer Edith Piaf (1915-1963, s. Wikipedia) who had to live for a certain time in a brothel being too poor. --- Wenn ich ihre Haut verließ* - der Frühling blutet* in Paris. --- The combination of Haut + verlassen is unusual. Maybe poetic language, maybe due to the rhyme (Paris / verließ), maybe both? "der Frühling blutet" very unusual combination and I heard it in no other context. I skip a few lines and to end just want to draw your attention to the following --- Ein Flüstern fiel mir in den Schoß und führte* feinen* Klang* ... ... --- The whole second line is totally unusual and for me it's not clear what Till wants to say (brought / made a nice / sophisticated / pleasant sound ?). Maybe due to the double alliteration Flüstern fiel // führte feinen? --- Sie rief mir Worte ins Gesicht (see above) und hat sich tief verbeugt --- Due to the combination of Schoß and verbeugt (lap and bowed), it becomes clear that Till describes a sexual activity here, probably oral sex (?). ---- The rest I leave for your interpretation. Again, you are right. A bit more artistic and poetic as "I love you babe! Yeah Yeah Yeah!! 😂

So did yall go to Germany? Don’t leave us with that cliffhanger

@@attk177 man..with great regret, we weren’t able to before he passed.. Guess I’ll have to see Herr Lindemann one day for em. 🤘

The best movie ive ever seen and the best band … the start to the movie was something else ❤

They weren’t banned they didn’t play in the US a lot for two reasons. The first thing was getting arrested. And the second reason is (and a lot of European bands have said the same thing) during the family values tour they were shocked at how massive the US is. The major cities are a lot closer together in Europe then they are in the states especially when you get the west side of the country.

Flake tells in his book that it gets absolutely hot in the song Sonne The band calls it Grillstube. 🔥🔥🔥 I think you would call it barbecue.

When the end of Sonne came, I was hit with the fireballs on the front row and I immediately jumped back. My body had a fight or flight reaction at the sheer intensity of the fire. I was directly in front of a pyro column. It was gloriously terrifying.

I was in the feuerzone in their last tour in the US. Sonne felt like you were standing next to a bonfire. No one can say they heard a "face melting riff" until they've been in the fuerzone during Sonne

I think it even starts with the Varusschlacht, so over 2000 years of history

Same. been obsessed ever since

Metal OPERA.

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Akward for their parents too. I recall Till Lindemann saying his mom came to one of the early shows, then once he starting singing a sexual song he saw his mom turning around and leaving

@@chadhenry961 'sexual songs' is an understatement. he writes about drugging, beating and raping women - which he's been doing consistently for a long time. Everyone should leave - not only his mum.

Thank you for watching!

​@@ThePunkRockMBAcan you do a video on skindred

Same here Finn

You just summed up my feelings about Finn, who went from a dude I didn't really understand a year back to one of my top five RU-vid creators of all time. 😎

Yea I agree. Thanks Finn

I was at the Cardiff gig, it drizzled with rain but the flames soon dried us . A primal experience

That would have been incredible 😢

Wasn'tPeter Steele a racist? I remember reading an interview in Metal Hammer in the 90s where the interviewer had a go at Peter and Peter defended his bigoted views. That wouldn t have gone down so well with Rammstein. Well, now Peter is dead anyway.

@@gulliverthegullible6667 BAHAHAHAHA!!!! Your name checks out.

@@Crowbar11115 I'd prefer if you could answer my question.

@@gulliverthegullible6667 I already did.

Dude that’s how I got into rammstein They’re popular in Mexico 🤘

If i remember correctly, the city where they’re played the most in the world, it’s Mexico City. Mind boggling how big they’re in latin America

For me as a German it's amazing to see how popular they are worldwide. I think no other German band ever made it that big worldwide aside from maybe the Scorpions and Modern Taking, lol.

lol i also learned how to count from 1 to 10 thanks to Sonne

I've been a fan for a long time. But, only recently got to see them live in Los Angeles. Fucking Amazing!! I strongly recommend you see them before they stop touring. Personally, I would love to travel and see them in Europe next.🎉

If you've watched his other videos about knockoff bands that go on twice as long as this and have way more information you'll realize how poorly researched this is. Kind of like when he did a video on Insane Clown Posse,, he starts out the videos by saying I don't really like these guys but holy crap they did really well and then provides less information than a basic Wikipedia scan.. but you know all those pop email bands that were on all the radio stations 20 years ago he can go on for hours and hours and hours about them

"klar saw the Evolution" mit 4 Jahren logisch :D ich bin 81 geboren und zwar in Berlin in direkter Nachbarschaft zu Paul Landers ich habe später sein Wohnung übernommen selbst ich war 13 als das Anfing und die waren meiner Nachbarschaft. Und nebenbei das Video ist lange nicht perfekt.

Researched!? If he'd spend 10 minutes scanning through their discography he would have learned how to NOT butcher most of the German words he apologized profusely for butchering!

@@jcp7620 ach laber kein Müll sprech mal Łeba aus ... man kann nicht 100% das Wort aussprechen wenn man es erst 1 min wirklich kennt...

Til really is an underrated lyrical genius. On the surface their lyrics look simple and provocative, but if you look closer, you realize how clever and deep they actually are and how great they are at mixing storytelling, provocation, humor and irony into something that sounds almost poetic. This is art.

I flew from Denver to Minneapolis to see them summer 2022. So worth the trip!

@@renieme we were at the same show! I saw them in Minneapolis as well!

San Antonio for honeymoon

He isn't. Just to mention a few: his rape poem, that was published at Kiwi Verlag, he said that men and women can't be friends unless the man f****d the woman, psychotherapy is just a waste of money, men should go hunting and drink alcohol instead etc. etc.

Yeah, I also love how Til as well as the other band members despite their enormous success seem to have remained really cool, normal, down-to-earth guys. You'd think they are so successful they live a typical rock star lifestyle that's all about partying, drugs and affairs, but outside of the show stage they seem to be totally normal dudes that live a normal life.

Well, my conment has aged poorly now after the recent allegations. 🙈

Yep and also Rammstein have many sof ballad songs and not the Hard aggressive metal they play

I was there with my dad who’s seen them before, it was amazing! Definitely going to see them again when they come back

And the mouth, The entrance to the tunnel of digestion

Listen to “Electric Callboy”. They have that similar German guitar tone and riffs.

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Ich hab damals in unserem Klassenzimmer ein Poster von Rammstein aufgehängt und die nächste Unterrichtsstunde als der Lehrer das Poster sah haben wir in der Klasse darüber diskutiert ob die Rechts sind oder nicht .... ich musste es dann wieder abhängen ... 2002 rum war das

Why trouble? The lyrics on its own are VERY tame.

YES!!!!! Hahahaha

Yep. been there haha. the teacher was going through it with us and occasionally said "I don't know that word". but didn't say much else. another teacher came and gave us a blocking the next day.

I remember I got my friend to go up to our teacher herr Zimmermann and say to him "du riechst so gut" and he burst out laughing as my friend told him you smell so good! He laughed and sadly had a nervous breakdown never to teach again due to idiots in my year.

Their albums all great in their own right but Rammstein sond is change after their second album espeacially last two albums it sond not how they sond before it have alot of melodies over their tradmark aggressive hard style espeacially the riffs id like they move from Heavy Metal to Hard rock espeacially in Zeit but stiil great and stiil rock hard

I also saw them on their 2012 tour in the U.S. Also, easily the best show I've been too.

Yo! I was at the show at The Palace too!

I saw em at Clutch Cargo in Pontiac, MI back in 2002