German Heavy Metal Music

Rammstein
Rammstein was formed in 1993, when a group of friends in East Germany got tired of working at a factory; they took on the name of the German town where 80 people died in an exhibition by the North American Air Force. Their shows, a mixture of horror theatre and loud, fast and powerful music, became a favourite among audiences: their singer Till Lindemann, a former Olympic swimmer, sometimes sang entire songs wrapped in flames from head to toe.

The band's first record (Heart Ache), edited in 1996, climbed the European charts fed by the reputation of their live shows and stayed within the rankings for two years, until the release of their second LP, Sehnsucht (Yearning), in 1998.

These two records established Rammstein as a band with a wider audience than just the German speaking public and they toured all around Europe. Since then, the Rammstein fever expanded without encountering language barriers; in 2001 their latest work, Mutter (Mother), was released.