RAMMSTEIN TRIVIA
Trivia
The staff of CLUB CITTA’ in Kawasaki wrote about the June 2005 Rammstein show in the diary on the venue’s own site, dated 15 June 2005. Having just remarked that fire regulations in Japan make Western-scale stage production difficult, the writer adds a single line about the band who are known for playing with fire - and says the show was astonishing.
Rammstein last played Japan on 3 June 2005, at CLUB CITTA’ in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. It is one of the four venues recorded for Völkerball, their official live album and DVD (Universal, 17 November 2006), and the product copy for the Japanese edition dates the performance to 3 June 2005.
Rammstein have never changed a member since they were formed in Berlin in 1994: Till Lindemann on vocals, Richard Z. Kruspe and Paul Landers on guitars, Oliver Riedel on bass, Christoph Schneider on drums and Christian “Flake” Lorenz on keyboards.
Two Rammstein songs have been nominated for a Grammy: “Du hast”, from Sehnsucht in 1997, and “Mein Teil”, from Reise, Reise in 2004.
The Rammstein headline show at Madison Square Garden in New York in December 2010 sold out in under twenty minutes.
Rammstein made their first appearance on US network television on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, during their North American tours of 2011 and 2012.
According to their Japanese label, Rammstein have sold more than twenty million albums worldwide, and they have toured with elaborate stage productions for over thirty years.
After Liebe ist für alle da in 2009, Rammstein toured North America again - their first such tour since 2001.
Sehnsucht, from 1997, went to number one in Germany and Austria, three in Switzerland and forty-five on the Billboard 200.
Reise, Reise, from 2004, went to number one in seven countries - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Estonia and Mexico - and reached sixty-one on the Billboard 200.
Rosenrot, from 2005, went to number one in Germany, Austria and Finland and to two in Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland; it reached forty-seven on the Billboard 200 and thirteen on Billboard’s rock chart.