September 17, 2004
Amerika single release date
The Amerika single was delayed in Germany/Austria/Switzerland until September 13th. There are three versions of it: the maxi, pock-it, and 2-track singles. For a list of release dates in other countries, check out the official site.
Reise, Reise release date
The release date for Germany/Austria/Switzerland has been changed to September 27th. It seems like the album won't come out in the US (and presumably Canada) until November 16th, but nothing has been confirmed about that.
Pay-per-download Rammstein tracks
PopFile is
offering all tracks from Mein Teil and Amerika for 1,39€ each. This
could be a good alternative if you do not want to pay high shipping costs
outside of Europe or you only want a couple of tracks.
Thanks to herzausstein for this info.
M80 street team
To help promote Reise, Reise in the US, an official street team has been set up. You can sign up for the street team here. Even if you are not in the US, there are some goodies there that you might want to see.
Rammstein on TV/Radio
VIVA in Germany will be airing a three hour special on October 9th from
8pm-11pm German time that will include interviews, music videos, etc.
MTV Germany will have another MTV Masters video on September 25th at 5pm German time.
It's not certain if this will be a new MTV Masters video or the same
one that was released years ago, but it would most likely be a new one.
EinsLive radio in Germany will
have Rammstein on September 22nd at 9pm. You might be able to stream
the audio online and there is also a webcam in the studio.
Thanks to DragonC and felicitas for this info.
New official t-shirt
The Official Rammstein Shop has added a new t-shirt.
Misc. items
I don't have time to upload fan submissions right now, but I will upload them as soon as I can. Also, I'm having some trouble with my outgoing email, so I'm not ignoring your emails, the replies just won't send. I'll get this fixed soon.
August 28, 2004
New tour dates
Two new tour dates have been added. The date in Berlin has been confirmed, but the November 5th show in Rotterdam, The Netherlands has not been confirmed. However, tickets for this show have gone on sale already and this date is likely to be confirmed soon.
August 27, 2004
Reise, Reise
Reise, Reise has gone from the working title of the new album to the official title of it. The tracklisting and cover art are now posted in the releases/albums/reise, reise section. A release date still hasn't been confirmed, but it looks like it will be September 20th for most places that release albums on Mondays. There is a rumor that it may not come out until later in the US, but hopefully it will be released on September 21st.
August 24, 2004
Amerika Tracklisting
The tracklisting for Amerika is now listed in the releases/singles/Amerika section.
New Interview
A German interview from the June copy of Breakout magazine has been added.
New Video Interview
A new video has been added. This video is quite a few years old (pre-Mutter, possibly pre-Sehnsucht) and is from a German TV show called Wahre Liebe in which two "fans" get to live out "fantasies" with celebrities.
Fan Submissions
One wallpaper by Obando has been added.
August 20, 2004
Amerika
The video for Amerika was premiered on MTV Select in Germany today. German lyrics and the english translation were added to the lyrics/singles sections. A rumored release date for the single in Germany/Switzerland/Austria is September 6th, but it has not been confirmed yet. New images from the video have been added to the pics page.
August 11, 2004
Tour Dates
A new date was added in Dortmund, Germany on December 11, 2004.
Fan Submission
Added a fansite link to A Feather in the Blood, a slash mailing list. Added 3 wallpapers, one by "Christoph Schneider," one by Laura, and one by Hans.
August 5, 2004
"Amerika" next single
According to the official site, the next single off of the still untitled new album will be Amerika. Jörn Heitmann, who directed the Sonne and Ich Will videos, will be directing this video.Thanks to felicitas and minx for this information.
New Interview
A new german interview from VolumeAt.tv (July 28, 2004) has been added to the press section.
Fan Submission
Added a fansite link to RS Tabs.
August 4, 2004
RammsteinFan.de continued...
There have been further public discussions between Sebastian of RammsteinFan.de and Emu, Rammstein's manager. Emu has lightened his stance and said that there was never a real intention to collect 75,000 € from Sebastian. However, he still feels that there were violations on RammsteinFan.de's part with things like exclusive FanArea items. Sebastian and Emu are planning to meet together and work out what needs to be done to keep RammsteinFan.de alive.
Mein Teil in the charts
Mein Teil debuted at #2 in the German charts.
New Merchandise
A Mein Teil girlie shirt has been added to the official shop.
Tabs wanted
Have you created tabs of Rammstein's music? If so, please submit them to me in either .txt or .html format by using the contact form in the about me section. Please label what instrument the tab is for. Once I get enough submissions, I will upload them to the fanarea section.
Fan Submissions
Added 13 fan arts by R+ Argentina - +AzA+ to the fanarea section. Added 17 wallpapers to the downloads section by Suender.
July 29, 2004
RammsteinFan.de sued
The German fansite, RammsteinFan.de, has been sued by Rammstein's management,
Pilgrim. Sebastian, the webmaster, has been told that he must hand over
the domain name and close his site down by Monday or he will have to
pay 75,000 € ($90,000 US). The chat and the forum can remain.
They claim they are doing this because the name "Rammstein" is legally
protected and because of some ads that Sebastian displayed on his site,
namely ads for ebay and a shirt company. Apparently they gave Sebastian
no warning, they just decided to sue a fan who wanted to do nothing but
support the band.
RammsteinNicCage.com and it's supporters wish the best of luck to RammsteinFan.de
and we hope that you can get this sorted out in your favor.
New Tour Date
A second tour date in Berlin was added.
July 27, 2004
New Tour Dates
According to the fanarea, Rammstein have added new dates across Europe which you can see in the tour dates section. Personally, I don't feel this is complete yet and more dates will be added because there are a few areas that have been left out and there are still some big gaps between some dates.
July 24, 2004
New Video Interviews
Added two video interviews. One of them is new, from MTV News Germany.Thanks to felicitas, aisling, and minx. The other one is a "making of" Das Modell. It is not like the other making ofs that are on Lichtspielhaus though - this one is more like a couple of fans that get to be extras for the Das Modell video (that was never released) and hang out with Rammstein. The quality of the video is not very good because the tape that it was ripped from is not very good. If someone can find a higher quality tape, please let me know.
Fan Submissions
Added 2 wallpapers by Gabriela. Added 3 fanarts by "Christoph Schneider." Added 2 fansite links.
July 16, 2004
New Press Article
A new German interview from Motor.de has been added.Thanks to felicitas and herzausstein for the interview.
Fan Submissions
Added 2 wallpapers by Das Mandel to the downloads section. Added 3 fanarts by "Christoph Schneider" to the fanarea section. Added 2 fansite links.
July 15, 2004
Resident Evil: Apocalypse Soundtrack
Mein Teil will appear on the new Resident Evil: Apocalypse movie soundtrack. The soundtrack will be released on August 31st. No word on whether the song will be in the movie or not.Thanks to links234a for this info.
Mein Teil Release Dates
To see what version of Mein Teil could be released in your country, check out this page on the official site
Mein Teil Video Stream
You can watch a stream of the Mein Teil video on the Viva.tv site.
New Press Articles
Added a german interview with Oliver from krone.at July 2004.
Added an english press article from Kerrang! July 2004.Thanks
to minx for this article.
Fan Submissions
Added 1 wallpaper by Das Mandel to the downloads section. Added 3 fanarts by Redux to the fanarea section.
July 14, 2004
New Video Interview
A new interview from MTV News Germany that aired yesterday has been added to the multimedia, video interviews section.
Fan Submissions
Added two fansite links. Added two wallpapers by Trin, one wallpaper by Root Pepper. Added a fanart by Z_Kruspe26.
July 10, 2004
Mein Teil Lyrics
Added the lyrics and translation of Mein Teil to the singles lyrics page (they will be moved to the new album lyrics page once I find out more information on the album).
July 9, 2004
Mein Teil Tracklisting/Cover art
The tracklisting for Mein Teil has been released and so has the cover art. You can see it on the Mein Teil page. The single will be released as a regular single with a jewel case, as a digipack, as a vinyl, and as a pockit.
New Merchandise
The official Rammstein shop will be adding new merchandise relating to the new album on July 12th, including a t-shirt.
Press Articles
Added an English translation of the June 2004 Rockhard interview.Thanks to Loeki for the translation. Added an English translation of an article from the Belgian magazine, Rock Tribune.Thanks to Ezzy for the translation.Added an interview from ReleaseMagazine.net (Check out this site, they talk about a lot of good bands!).Thanks to MK at ReleaseMagazine.net
New pictures
About 200 screenshots of the Mein Teil video and a few new promo images can be seen in the new pics pages. They will be added to the regular member galleries soon.
July 7, 2004
Mein Teil Video
According to the fanarea, Mein Teil will debut on MTV and VIVA in Germany on July 9th at 4:01pm (10am EDT). Fanarea members will be able to view the video on July 8th at 8pm (2pm EDT) on the official site in streaming form.
Germany Tour Dates
Also from the fanarea, new tour dates have been listed for Germany (with European dates soon to follow) for November and December.
Press Articles
Added an English translation of the June 2004 Rockhard interview.Thanks to Loeki for the translation. Added an English translation of an article from the Belgian magazine, Rock Tribune.Thanks to Ezzy for the translation.
Fan Submissions
Added two wallpapers by Justin to the downloads section. Added three fanarts by "Christoph Schneider" to the fanarea section.
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