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[[Rammstein]] is a six-man self-described "tanz-metall" (dance metal, though their actual style has them as the [[Trope Codifier|codifiers]] of Neue Deutsche Härte, a form of industrial metal) band hailing from [[Germany]]. They take their name from the Ramstein airshow disaster of 1988, adding an extra 'm' to give the double meaning of "Battering Ram" (literally 'Ramming Stone'). The band consists of:
* Till Lindemann - lead vocals
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* Christian 'Flake' Lorenz - keyboards
Check them at the <s>Character</s> [[Rammstein
{{Discography}} as of 2011:
* ''Herzeleid'' (1995)
* ''Sehnsucht'' (1997)
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* A DVD of their Madison Square Garden and Montreal shows is [http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/307/20659/Rammstein-to-release-NYC-and-Montreal-shows-on-DVD.html confirmed.]
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▲* [[Music to Invade Poland To]]: Via review of their album ''Mutter''.
* [[We All Live in America]]: From a line of the song "Amerika". Richard ''does'' live in America, exactly in New York City. Have you ever heard him sing for Emigrate? He even sounds American. Just a wee bit'a irony.
<!--* [[De/Amerikaner Lieben Rammstein|Americans Love Rammstein]]: The German correspondent in [[This Very Wiki]] to [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]].-->
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== Song tropes ==
* [[Abusive Parents]]: "Laichzeit", "Tier" and "Wiener Blut".
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* [[Album Filler]]: ''Rosenrot'' as a whole. In fact, most of it is composed by leftover material of the recordings for ''Reise, Reise''. Aside from "Mann Gegen Mann", "Rosenrot", "Benzin" and "Te Quiero Puta", no songs from ''Rosenrot'' were played in concerts.
* [[All Germans Are Nazis]]: The band wrote "Links 2-3-4" as their counterarguement to this accusation. They've even said on interviews that they hate Nazis as well.
* [[Anti
* [[Audience Participation Song]]: "Ich Will", "Ohne Dich", "Du Hast", "Engel"...
* [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]]: The sun shining is referenced in some way in "Rammstein," "Engel," "Küss Mich (Fellfrosch)," "Mein Herz Brennt," "[[Captain Obvious|Sonne]]," "Mutter," "[[Captain Obvious|Morgenstern]]," "Mann Gegen Mann" and "Hilf Mir." ''Liebe Ist Für Alle Da'' is the only album where this theme does not come up.
* [[Based
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: "Moskau" has parts sung in Russian; "Amerika", "Pussy" and "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" have parts sung in English; (there're also English versions of "Du Hast", "Engel" and "Amerika" among the singles) "Amour" and "Frühling in Paris" have some parts sung in French; and "Te Quiero Puta!" is sung entirely in Spanish.
** Also, an astounding amount of wordplay in their songs, just in general.
** Till is fairly well qualified for the title of [[Pungeon Master]].
* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: "Benzin".
* [[Brother
* [[Call
* [[Careful
* [[Cover Version]]: They have done covers of Depeche Mode's "Stripped", The Ramones's "Pet Semetary", Kraftwerk's "Das Model" (with the title of the cover version being spelt as "Das Modell"), and Aria's "Shtil" (with the cover titled "Schtiel"). Recently, Till worked with [[Apocalyptica]] to do a German cover of David Bowie's "Heroes".
* [[Cue the Sun]]: [[Captain Obvious|Sonne.]]
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* [[Eagle Land]]: "Amerika" satirizes Type 2.
* [[Egomaniac Hunter]]: "Waidmann's Heil", [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|with bonus implications of rape.]]
* [[
* [[Evil Laugh]]: "Eifersucht" and "Benzin".
* [[Excited Show Title!|Excited Song Title!]]: "Feuer Frei!"
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Foreign People Are Sexy]]: Sort of parodied in "Pussy". This is why there's the [[Gratuitous German]] [[Irony|in a predominantly English song]]. The song itself is also a parody on the sex tourism trade.
* [[Hermaphrodite]]: The song "Zwitter" (which does indeed translate as "Hermaphrodite").
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* [[Incest Is Relative]]: "Spiel Mit Mir" and "Wiener Blut".
* [[Intentionally Awkward Title]]: "Pussy".
* [[Intercourse
* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: Fairly common, usually wound up in [[Intercourse
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Inverted in "Spring", in which {{spoiler|a man climbs onto a bridge to enjoy the view and is mistaken for a jumper--and encouraged by the crowd to kill himself.}}
* [[Last
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: A surprising number of their remixes are almost ambient sounding.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Der Meister" qualifies, with happy-sounding keyboards and riffs in a song about a predicted apocalypse.
* [[Magic Realism]]: "Dalai Lama" is a modern reworking of [[
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Dalai Lama" refers to the 14th Dalai Lama's fear of flying, and the song is "Der Erlkönig" on a plane.
* [[Metal Scream]]: Used (to an extent) in the chorus of "Wiener Blut", and at a few points in "Mann Gegen Mann". The [[Careful
* [[Misplaced Nationalism]]: "Amerika" is ''not'' meant to be a pro-America song. You'd think the bridge, ''"This is not a love song!"'' growled repeatedly would be a clue.
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: Varies wildly up and down the scale, from 1 or 2 (e.g. "Ein Lied") up to 7 or 8 (e.g "Mein Teil"), and everything in between.
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* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: "Heirate mich" and "Klavier".
* [[Murder Ballad]]: "Weisses Fleisch", "Du Riechst So Gut", "Mein Teil", "Stein Um Stein", and "Klavier". "Heirate Mich" is a [[I Love the Dead|post-mortem version]], of sorts.
* [[Non
* [[Obligatory Bondage Song]]: "Bück Dich", "Ich tu dir weh" and the unreleased "Feuerräder".
* [[Obsession Song]]: "Du Riechst So Gut", among others.
* [[Ominous Music Box Tune]]: "Spieluhr". (The title translates to "Music Box", as well.)
* [[One
* [[Parental Incest]]: "Wiener Blut" is supposedly based off the Josef Fritzl case.
** "Laichzeit" mixes this with [[Sibling Incest]] and, in the third verse, [[But You Screw One Goat!]].
** "Tier" had father/daughter rape, The Live aus Berlin features {{spoiler|Richard's daughter Khiri Li}} as the child in the cage.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: "Mutter".
* [[Power Ballad]]: "Ohne Dich", "Amour", "Roter Sand", "Nebel", "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" and "Frühling in Paris", amongst other examples.
* [[Precision F
* [[Pun
* [[Pyromaniac]]: "Benzin" is, in many ways, a love song to flame. It's more surprising that it took them five albums to write it than that it was one of the few songs from ''Rosenrot'' ever played in concert.
** Some lyrics from "Benzin" are also the top quote on the trope page itself.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Horrifically deconstructed in "Liebe ist für alle da", at least according to one interpretation.
* [[Rule
* [[Shout
* [[
* [[Split Personality]]: "Führe Mich".
* [[Stalker
* [[Surprisingly Gentle Song]]: "Ohne Dich", "Ein Lied", "Amour", "Nebel", "Frühling in Paris", "Roter Sand" and "Stirb Nicht Vor Mir" (the latter two are notable for not featuring any heavy guitars)... they have a fair few songs like this.
* [[Take That]]:
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** "Pussy" is a mockery of sexual tourism, with lines like "I can't get laid in Germany!".
** "Mein Land" is an anti-nationalism song.
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: "Links 2-3-4" was written as a counterargument against those who [[All Germans Are Nazis|accuse the band of having Nazi sympathies]].
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "RAMM! STEIN!"
* [[Title
* [[True Companions]]: "Haifisch" can be seen as a form of principle declaration.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]
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* [[Beach Episode]]: The video for "Mein Land".
* [[Call Back]]: Among others, the video for "Haifisch" references the videos for "Du Hast" and "Sonne".
* [[The Cameo]]: [[Marilyn Manson]] (the person) appears in "Haifisch" in a few [[Freeze
* [[Concept Video]]: Most of them.
* [[A Date
* [[Dominatrix]]: Snow White in "Sonne".
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Flake}} plays a suicide jumper in "Benzin".
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Schneider makes a surprisingly convincing woman in "Mein Teil".
* [[Easter Egg]]: The "Ich tu dir weh" video. {{spoiler|If you keep an eye on Richard's hands, you'll see a ring from his other band, Emigrate.}}
* [[Fan Service]]: The "Mein Land" video features the entire band shirtless and in beach wear for most of it (and Till as a lifeguard), not to mention a lot of bikini-clad women. Towards the end, there are very quick shots of topless women and [[Girl
* [[Fille Fatale]]: In the "Rosenrot" video. Emphasis on "fatale".
* [[
* [[Firemen Are Hot]]: The "Benzin" video.
* [[Foot Focus]]: "Engel," in a [[Shout
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: The "Haifisch" video.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] / [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: In "Du Riechst So Gut '98".
* [[Grimmification]]: The video for "Sonne" is a rather dark take on Disney's version of ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]'', featuring the band members as masochistic dwarves working for a gold dust-addicted Snow White.
* [[Hermaphrodite]]: Flake's character in "Pussy".
* [[Kill It
* [[Made of Explodium]]: The car in the "Du Hast" video. Crosses with [[Stuff Blowing Up]].
* [[Masquerade Ball]]: "Du Riechst So Gut '98".
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: "Mann Gegen Mann" is a ''Clothingless'' Scene.
** "Mein Land" has the band shirtless for most of it.
* [[Shout
** "Engel" plays heavy homage to ''[[From Dusk
** And "Du Hast" homages ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''.
** During the end of "Mein Land", the band members are wearing [[Batman|Joker]]-style facepaint.
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* [[Walking Swimsuit Scene]]: "Mein Land".
* [[Wet Sari Scene]]: The "kissing in the rain" scene in the "Du Riechst So Gut '98" video.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Worst Aid]]: As [[Tear Jerker|tearjerking]] and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] the "Ohne Dich" video is, isn't it a ''bad'' idea to move someone with a broken bone? (Come to think of it, what the hell DID he break? Leg? Back?)
** Possibly justified. The video is not particularly clear about the extent of the injuries, only showing a iffy-looking feet at one point which [[The Other Wiki]] claims is gangrene. In any case, leaving someone exposed to the elements is not the best of ideas either, and avoiding leaving Till there to get hypothermic and whatever other complications would probably trump avoiding the possibility of doing anymore damage by moving him somewhere safer. {{spoiler|And with Till dying in the end, it probably doesn't matter too much anyway. Still, radioing for help may have been a nice idea.}} Related, [[Cool, Clear Water|drinking water straight from a mountain stream]] might not be the the thing to do.
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* [[All Germans Are Nazis]]: They are frequent victims of this.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: In the ''Made in Germany'' tour, Flake's status as the band's [[Butt Monkey]] is alleviated somewhat by the performance of "Bück dich", in which the ''entire band'' falls into [[Butt Monkey]] status. Till, Paul, Flake and Ollie are led on all fours and abused by Frau Schneider towards Richard, who also gets abused as well. Then, later, Till squirts his dildo right into Schneider's face mid-performance.
* [[Creator Backlash]]: Schneider made it clear [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqFvjWBXvic 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''.
* [[East Germany]]: All of the band's members hail from here, though it had ceased to exist by the time the band was formed.
* [[Easter Egg]]: The voice clip hidden either in the pregap of ''Reise, Reise'' for European pressings or at the start of the song for the US pressings. The clip itself is the last 38 seconds of the cockpit voice recording from the [
* [[Gag Penis]]: The cannon used during live performances of "Pussy".
* [[A Good Name for
* [[Great Balls of Fire]]: All of their live shows and a fair few of their videos too.
* [[Iconic Logo]]: The font used for the band name on CDs and DVDs, and the Rammstein cross.
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* [[Moral Guardians]]: A frequent target. They've been blamed for Columbine, and "Ich tu dir weh" was indexed in their home country. The reason behind it was "abuse promotion". There's also a picture of Richard spanking a nude woman in the album art for ''Liebe ist für alle da'' which got the same treatment for being "degrading to women".
* [[The Nineties]]: The band formed in 1994.
* [[Non
** Till has gotten [[Man On Fire|burnt a few times]] though.
* [[Pyromaniac]]: The concerts and the songs. About the former, they routinely fire a flamethrower just above the mosh pit. About the latter, there are about as many songs about fire as there are about sex.
* [[Rated
* [[Real Person Slash]]: [[Rule 34|Don't even act surprised.]]
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Quite often. ''Bück dich'' live is one of the more memorable examples.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: When it comes to live shows, it's not a matter of whether this trope will happen or not, it's ''who specifically'' will invoke this trope. Take Volkerball, Ollie and Paul both end up shirtless by the end of the show.
** And, as mentioned above, the original "Herzeleid" cover.
* [[Shout
* [[Transvestite]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110527075654/http://www.neo-rammstein.com/site/medias/galerie/motor.php This photoshoot].
** Also, [[Attractive Bent Gender|Frau Schneider]] makes a reappearance in the ''Made in Germany'' tour.
* [[True Companions]]: The band has repeatedly stated that if any of its members were to leave, the entire band would quit. They have had the same lineup since they first began in 1994.
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