Archive for the ‘2007’ Category

I just received these scans of Metal hammer, where is another interesting interview with Richar Kruspe, the Rammstein guitarist. To read the scans, click on the thumbnail.

The t-shirt goes to Brazil and the winner is Fernando Roraima from Rio de Janiero. He was chosen by administrator bacause his contribution to the developement of this site was the biggest from all contestants. What he did was that he placed posters with Rammstein Europe to many places in his school and even to some public palces (at least he said to do so). He was promoting the group and also explaining people who Rammstein are and what music they make and always made a refference to this site.

It was hard enough for Rammstein guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe to leave his friends and daughter in Berlin and relocate to New York to write an album for his side project, Emigrate. The last thing he needed was for the house he moved into to be haunted.

The residence, a former firehouse in SoHo, apparently revealed its spiritual energies to Kruspe soon after he set up his home studio there. He says the burglar alarm went off repeatedly without being triggered, tiny holes appeared in his window without explanation, and his girlfriend had to move out after just two weeks because she felt so unsettled by the house’s vibe.

“I went online to research the history of the house, and I found a picture of it from 1874,” Kruspe said a week before heading back to Germany to continue work on the next Rammstein album, which doesn’t have a name yet. “I printed it up, and when I looked closely at it, I got goose bumps all over my body. The picture is of three guys standing outside the building, and one of them looks exactly like me.”

Read the whole story at vh1.com (source), picture: Broede, Motor Music

We have already informed you that Flake from Rammstein is to release his own mix of music he recorded when he was young. Now you have an excellent opportunity to listen to samples of this upcoming album. You can hear it on Motor.de. The rest of the article is all about Grün & Blau. More info here.

David “Dave” Prowse, MBE (born July 1, 1935 in Bristol, United Kingdom) is an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and actor, most widely known for his role as the physical form of Darth Vader in the Star Wars trilogy. There is now an intewrview with him on The Void Stuff and he mentioned that his favourite metal band in the world is Rammstein! His age is 72!

Source: The Void Stuff, thanx to Thomas Canning

There is some new information about the upcoming Rammstein album.

The Gauntlet recently interviewed Rammstein guitarist, Paul Landers, and asked about the upcoming album. “The big news is that the band has just gotten back together and has begun working on new songs” stated Paul. “We are working on new songs and have put together 30 songs already. There are a few songs that came from individual members at home, but the thing that is really fun this time is the work we do together.”

Source: The Gauntlet

In the current issue of Metal Hammer magazine is a brief report on the current state of things in Rammstein’s production.

Richard said in an interview that the new material will be again harder than the recent works “Rosenrot” and “Reise Reise.” Stylistically it will be more like the debut album “Herzeleid.” “The fun of hard, fast numbers is returned,” said Richard.

One reason for this change should be trimmed equipment, which the band is currently using in a mansion near the Baltic. There are only small combo amplifier and E-Drums. “This is to encourage us, the right strings to take effect. You play harder now, if you can not rely on large investments, “said Richard.

Currently, the band is still on composing, the material will be recorded in winter. Further details about the album release are not available.

(Source: Metal Hammer 11/07, Rammstein-Austria.com)

What is this contest about

Because this website exists for quite a long time and we would like to attract more fans to make the widest community, we have decided (better to say I have decided) to make this contest. The goal is to attract more people to make the discussion better, to get new people who would like to help with the texts and so on.

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In the past few weeks all Rammstein albums were on the verge of being listed to the Censorship Index and as a consequence further sales of the albums would have been stopped.
This summer, a worried Kreisjugendpfleger (“district youth guardian”) applied at the Federal Inspection Unit to have all Rammstein albums indexed as so-called “youth-endangering media”. After negotiations, this action has ceased as of the 10th of October. Fortunately, a review board composed of representatives from the state authorities, youth welfare services, tutors, church and religious groups, and book distributors and publishers did NOT subscribe to the view of the applicant that Rammstein lyrics were obscene, violence-glorifying, or sexually humiliating.

Source: Rammstein Newsletter. You can subscribe on Rammstein.com
© 2007 Pilgrim Management, Geselschaft mit beschränkter Haftung

On November 9, 2007 appears as “Grün & Blau” (Green & Blue) a retrospective of East Berlin punk band legend Feeling B, in which Rammsteins Flake Lorenz and Paul Landers collected their first experience as musicians. “Grün & Blau” is not primarily retrospective, but also the publication of numerous hitherto missing songs. Flake has spent the last year in his old recording archive to sift, select songs and to mix them, with the aim to give the songs new sound, which was wanted already when they were young! “Grün & Blau” is accompanied by a 120-page hardcover book in which Flake published a selection of original texts, which are now seen from the modern point of view.

Source: Rammstein Newsletter, more info available in German (somebody willing to translate?)