Ejaculating like a fountain all over the audience, fucking your keyboardist up the ass on stage, bursting into flames and than putting it out by pissing over everyone — hey, it’s called rock and roll!
Of course, it’s all showbiz illusion — nobody could keep coming and coming like that. But that doesn’t stop Rammstein, a German- language Heavy Metal Dance band.
And so we have the stimulating spectacle of humpily-built frontman Till Lindemann (left) wagging a liquor-squirting dildo throughout his set, 
from which the other band members occasionally drink and then — a trademark of the act — mounting his keyboardist, who compliantly assumes the position and offers up butt, complete with rear pants-flap for easy access.
But the ass-fucking is just the vanilla part of the act. For true kink, the studly Till keeps pissing continuously, spraying the front rows in a 100-proof version of a golden shower. (See the video. )
Rammstein (German for battering ram) is not exactly the latest thing in hardcore shock rock — they’ve been kicking around Europe for 10 years now — but they are the most internationally successful German-language band in history. Certainly they are among the most controversial.
With no exaggeration, Rammstein is the favorite band for teen boys about to go on shooting rampages. The Columbine shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were big fans, as was the nebbishy American Indian boy responsible for the Red Lake High School massacre of 2005. More disturbingly, Russian authorities report that the terrorists in the Beslan school hostage crisis had “listened to German hard rock group Rammstein on personal stereos during the siege to keep themselves edgy and fired up.”
After each of these events, the band issued statements of condolence, reiterating that they had no “lyrical content or political beliefs that could have possibly influenced such behavior.” Their lyrics, in fact, are noted for wit and word play.
Nevertheless, wit and wordplay are irrelevant in the sort of hard-thrusting industrial rock the band plays. The overriding impact of Heavy Metal is its noisy, high-energy mania, not careful musicality. In the words of the group’s skinhead-styled guitarist 
Ollie Riedel, left, “German language suits Heavy Metal music. French might be the language of love, but German is the language of anger.”
Certainly, a brutal homoerotic aesthetic radiates from the act. The band was thrown into jail in Massachusetts during their first American tour for rolling out a giant dildo on stage — and then using it!
Their militaristic celebration of powerful male bodies has opened them to cliche accusation of being neo-Nazis — a characterization they reject. Still, their shows sometimes feature footage from Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympiad, particularly her near-nude male bodies swan diving off platforms in a masterpiece of balletic, slow-motion editing.
And so the press, by an old and debunked arithmetic that equates homosexuality with Nazism, has piled on. “Music to invade Poland by,” wrote one wag; “posterboys for the master race,” clucked another. In reviewing last year’s U.S. tour, the New York Times remarked of the super-top lead singer, “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.”
Fittingly, Rammstein’s music has appeared in several of David Lynch’s stranger films (Lynch is a huge fan), as well as The Matrix and Mortal Kombat. Germans, it is said, are deeply embarrassed by the band’s recycling of troubling Nazi iconography. They are also the most dependably shocked by the band’s antics, which, perhaps, is why the band remains such a hit with German teenage boys.
“We just push boundaries,” Till Lindemann told a German rock magazine. “We can’t help it if people don’t like those boundaries being pushed.”
Opening photo © 2001 herzeleid.com
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© 2006, John Calendo. All rights reserved. Nightcharm.com
Damn you guys! This really changed my view on Rammstein. As I live in the Netherlands, you are soon washed over by young boys (12-16) who are completely insane about this band. Problem is, this act really doesn’t match the Lonsdale crap most of those way too young guys wear. I think it’s better my little brother doesn’t get to hear this crap. Now he isn’t no Lonsdale figure, hell, my parents would never allow that in our house.
I do agree, not that you have really mentioned it, that Rammstein is a factor in agression for many of their fans. Their music is not disgusting, nor are their lyrics. I’m no kinky guy, and this really is getting close to the edge of my disgust. Yeah, sure like it if you want, but I really don’t. It’s fun though, that a band standing for masculine acts, military extremism, (no nazi’s, really), does an act like this. These guys definitly have balls.
I really think it’s better they don’t allow under-aged kids on their shows. Definitly.
I hope Till did know he is gaining a lot fans by this act…
Yours, D.A. Becker
They’re great, so exciting and transgressive. The lastest video, with multiracial naked men caressing on the stage is very disturbing/exciting. You cans ee it there
Bestxxx
Chic Freak, Paris
P.S. I hope it’s beer he’s spouting over that poor audience. I wouldn’t wanna know what else I’d fancy.
I don’t the the illusion. Is it real or not?
The Band name comes from the town Ramstein (US-Base), where a plane crashed at a flight show.
Concerts in their hometown Berlin looks like a family picknick, very few lonsdales or skins or whatever they call themselve. In private Ramstein are boring normal family guys, who don’t take the band Rammstein very serious
That cock was huge
Till can fuck me anytime he wants. If only I could get his number….
TILL LINDEMANN is like a sex cell he can’t stop or help himself it does’nt even look like his real knob its just a show ladys and gens thats all it is.
Wow those dicks make me want to suck like a mother
…Music is both life, and death;with I live,without I die…
rammstein rok and hope ur not blaming ther music 4 those massacre …cause thats just crap…
(Not obsession but fascination)
…Till Lindemann…
It was an erotic conception.I fell in love(lust) with a photgraph, and have been searching for pictures ever since.I live in Canada, speak english, and initially had no clue of the lyrics of Rammstein until they were translated.Who would believe that a photograph could take life, to step out of the page to stand, and speak.(like playgirl)His eyes are full of mystery, and I like it that way.I do not want the fantasy to end,never to reach climax…alowing my imagination to dream.He without a doubt is a radical, the far right of masculinity.He has such a brilliant stage presence. It is as though the fire on stage is his soul, bursting through his flesh…burning everything in his way…A sexy playboy…
Honey, have you seen him lately? Not pretty.
I do not claim to understand artists, let alone men but my interest was drawn to the symbolic portrayal of public masterbation. This is maddness was my initial reaction later curiosity.We are all sexual creatures, that much is evident yet why expose one’s manhood? Maybe someone can post an answer. It may be shock, and awe but there has to be some meaning behind such a taboo.Maybe thats the answer. Sexuality should not be a taboo. A concert may seem as an inappropriate venue for such an act,dismissing the reality that these are artists. An artist chooses to entertain while at the same time desires to create. It is as though sex is an extreme sport, pushing the limits of sexuality. I would not be surprised if their next act for the Rosenrot album to be sex on stage with a woman. I would gladly volunteer for that…
Karla, I think it’s just show business This band is about in-your-face outrage. So pissing on the audience, anal screwing your guitarist is part of the act. Some people might think it’s desperate — perhaps so. Or maybe, if I spoke German, I could tell you it actually is organic to the particular song. I don’t know, and don’t need to know. I just think it was hot and part of putting on a memorable show.
Till Lindemann is sexy, just getting on in the years. he actaully looks good for a 43 yr old. now Richard, he is HOT!! lol at least i think so. hes the one i always look at in the pictures. hes is very muscular, and handsome, and has a good personality. too bad he’s married. i love the things they do with their hair and eyes during concerts. its makes them look so, i dunno, sexy, surreal, alert, many things. i just love the effect it has.overall i just love Till Lindemann & Richard Z. Kruspe Bernstein are fucking hot!!!!!
Too bad they can’t figure out that the guy Till “screws up the ass” is actually the keyboardist!I love when somebody gets something as easy to find out as that wrong in an article.
…I heard there will be no tour for Rosenrot…Sex must be exhausting…
…People send naked photos of themselves the least I can do is talk.I had purchased the Rosenrot album and had checked reviews since this genre of music is new to me.I heard a lot of compliments and a lot of complaints.I liked the album and was surprised by some of the reviews.It is as though the relationship between fan and muscian is lost.”I can no longer relate,” as if they “are” the band, a reflection of self, a bizarre ego.I thought the album was greater.The sound of anger and rage has a face.The thought behind the movement, rather than complete lunacy.I found the album bigger, louder, deeper
with the voice of Till.The man behind the sound.The sound inside the soul.The past songs have led them here, to “refect” before a change of course.They could lead me anywhere, I am under the spell.I found Till’s voice so sexy.He had hypnotized me long ago, now his voice haunts all of the songs…
I have been listening to Rammstein since they came out with the second album and Till turns me even more than ever! I believe there is no man on this planet that excudes sex and masculinity like he does, Till Lindemann is my ultimate fantasy…
Wow!! I kinda liked Rammstein….but…..NOW I LIKE THEM EVEN BETTER!!!!!!!
One statement above says of the singer, “He without a doubt is a radical, the far right of masculinity. He has such a brilliant stage presence.”
Yes, it’s merely show – and designed for the public not to search for the real persons behind, but to pay for the images on stage, in magazines and inside the listeners’ heads. And the latter truly are attracted by far right stuff. No doubt the Nazi’s uniforms were not really ugly, as (too) many gay porn productions prove. And their architectural megalomaniac plans are partly ugly, partly impressive.
And they – industrially – killed millions, how admirable. Among them lesbians, classified as “anti-social”, one of the the lowest in the concentration camps’ hierarchy. Like the pink triangle – marked relatively few gay men (estimated 50.000 or more, what the heck), as we don’t wear un-deactivable warning lights and thus have some really fine chance to live an unhappy, hidden life.
Such a life lived German Neonazi leader Michael Kuehnen (1955-1991, died of AIDS). And the USA’s main hunter (with McCarthy) of alleged communists and of gays, John Edgar Hoover. Great examples for an alternative to deal with all that boring solidarity stuff, really.
A (somewhat intellectual) German funzine (pardon) created what became a proverb for many democracy-aware people:
Nur die duemmsten aller Kaelber
waehlen ihre Schlaechter selber
(only the most stupid of all calves
vote for their own slaughterers)
And those innocent, unaware audiences: sure, mostly they’re as calm as they seem. But so were even neighbors who instantly turned into members of a terror-supporting mob when the Nazi decided to let jews clean sidewalks with their toothbrushes. There’s intelligent highly entertaining trash, with hidden sophisticated humanistic messages of responsibility and respect – tv examples: Malcolm in the middle, The Simpsons. And then there’s mere bullshit, a joyful experience only for all who wish to give up thinking and fancy this be the climax of lust. Like folks who listen to the most non-musical crap (even below Rammstein sound) with a permanent, headache-causing stupidly hammering rhythm – not for happy ecstasy, but just, as one guy explained to me, “to dance it all off and out”. He never looked joyful, only – each time afterwards – exhausted. He even aggreed it’s been little weekly suicides, “better than life”.
Europe did experience Nazi terror. Would you estimate European gays applauding bands who oh so plafully use signs characterizing a network closely related to the financially most powerful Neonazi supporters in the southern US (“NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation”, proudly printed on stickers at least until the 1980s) – the Klan? How would you explain gay KKK-white-hoods-estimation to your Afro-American friends? Sure, Rammstein don’t even think of Nazi propaganda, but actually do cause an effect much worse because subconscious and sustainous: de-sensitization. They don’t spread a certain seed, but train a general preparation for various unpleasent ones: an indifferent so-what-attitude.
Besides, there are lots of much different “dark aesthetics” artists (not only metal). I.e. one American who proves more responsibility than “oh, I don’t intend (whatever), for I don’t care” and “ask the audience why they pay so little attention to these subtle lyrics” (behind all the rough noise – and my goodness, they also don’t read footnotes, but yes, of course are fee to do so). He’s not nice and neutral in most interviews (but sometimes very nice and most actively committed to humanistic values): he’s still provoking, but also making clear statements which right-wing folks never would accept: Marilyn Manson. And there’s many more – you definitely don’t need Rammstein.
Leave it to the Germans to use sex on stage mind Fn the crowd
I really love it when music convays sexuality in its many
colors Verbitten Views of Gay Sex GOTTA LOVE IT ..
Brings to mind Windy RIP she was real and in your face about
her thoughts on Sex amoung other things used ”blood, thorns, chain saw, machine guns”
P.S.
Does sex sell art or Does art sell sex
i would fuck the shit out of till all day! this german can invade me any day! he could tie me up and tie me down!
I’m in love with Rammstein and have a fantasy about blowing Till! For Halloween I was a Rammstein Groupie and wore a tank top that said “Ich habe Till geblasen” – along with a mini skirt made out of a Rammstein t-shirt and stripper stilletos, to make sure I’m first in line! I was wondering if anyone on here has ever actually seen Till’s cock though. I’m sure it’s huge! I’ve read on a website about how Till had cut himself during a concert and at the after party a girl was like “Till, what can I do to make you feel better?” and Till was like “blow me” but instead of immediatly dropping to her knees, she wouldn’t do it! Now that is crazy. I wanna hear some hot and steamy stories from people who have actually met Till! Also I think Till sounds sexiest in the song “Herzeleid,” what do you think???
Till is a fucking sex god, period! Any song he sings with his deep, masculine, baritone voice sounds hott! I don’t know what I love more…his voice, his physique or just the fact that he’s a mean-looking German. I love the “Du Riescht So Gut 95″ video. If you want to see a hard, chiseled body…check out Till in that video!
wow till Lindemann & Richard Z. Kruspe Bernstein are so totally hot!!!
they have to be the sexiest and most masculine men in the world! who agrees!! i am so proud to speak German but there lyrics still dont turn me off at all!!! get rock Rammstein!! xo
That was great!!!!!!
i love till