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Live Review: Rammstein Return To LA For The First Time In A Decade With Quite An Explosive Show

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Rammstein’s First Ever North American Stadium Tour

The North American debut of the most extreme spectacle in live music will finally take place in fall 2022, when RAMMSTEIN brings its full-scale stadium production to this continent for the first time ever.

Rock 'n' roll’s most ambitious pyro-theatrical experience will be on display for a series of 12 open-air dates beginning Aug. 21, 2022 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal and setting seven U.S. stadiums ablaze before concluding at Foro Sol in Mexico City on Oct. 4, 2022.

The tour is produced by AEG Presents and you can get tickets here .

Rammstein 2022 North American Stadium Tour

Aug. 21 - Montreal, Quebec @ Parc Jean-Drapeau Aug. 27 - Minneapolis, Minn. @ U.S. Bank Stadium Aug. 31 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ Lincoln Financial Field Sept. 3 - Chicago, Ill. @ Soldier Field Sept. 6 - East Rutherford, N.J. @ Metlife Stadium Sept. 9 - Foxborough, Mass. @ Gillette Stadium Sept. 17 - San Antonio, Texas @ Alamodome Sept. 23 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (SOLD OUT) Sept. 24 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Oct. 1 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Foro Sol (SOLD OUT) Oct. 2 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Foro Sol (SOLD OUT) Oct. 4 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Foro Sol (SOLD OUT)

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'Rammstein In Amerika' will take place across three months next year

Rammstein have announced details of their first ever North American stadium tour – see the dates below.

The tour, dubbed ‘Rammstein In Amerika’, will see the German metallers bring their notorious, pyro-heavy show to the continent for the first time.

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The tour will begin in late August 2022 with a show at the Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. Gigs in Chicago, Los Angeles, Chicago and more will follow across late summer, before the tour wraps up with three Mexico City shows in October.

Tickets for the shows go on sale on Friday, May 28. Get yours here , and see the dates below.

AUGUST 2022

21 – Montreal, Parc Jean-Drapeau 27 – Minneapolis, U.S. Bank Stadium 31 – Philadelphia, Lincoln Financial Field

SEPTEMBER 2022

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3 – Chicago, Soldier Field 6 – East Rutherford, MetLife Stadium 9 – Foxborough, Gillette Stadium 17 – San Antonio, Alamodome 23 – Los Angeles, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 24 – Los Angeles, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

OCTOBER 2022

1 – Mexico City, Foro Sol 2 – Mexico City, Foro Sol 3 – Mexico City, Foro Sol

Rammstein are also set to take part in Download Festival’s special ‘Reloaded’ TV event . The two-night show in early June will feature clips from ​some of “the best Download headliner performances from the past 10 years” including Rammstein alongside Linkin Park ,  Metallica ,  Slipknot ,  Iron Maiden ,  Guns N’ Roses  and more.

The band also recently confirmed that they recorded a new album during the coronavirus lockdown . “The fact that we couldn’t perform live increased our creativity,” keyboardist Christian ‘Flake’ Lorenz told Motor Music . “We had more time to think of new things and less distraction. As a result, we recorded a record that we hadn’t planned on.”

In other news, a Russian activist has been sentenced to prison for sharing Rammstein’s video for ‘Pussy’ online six years ago.

Andrei Borovikov was charged with “manufacturing and distributing pornography”  and was later found guilty by a Russian court.

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RAMMSTEIN Announces Summer 2022 North American Stadium Tour

The North American debut of the most extreme spectacle in live music will finally take place in fall 2022 when RAMMSTEIN brings its full-scale stadium production to this continent for the first time ever. Rock and roll's most ambitious pyro-theatrical experience will be on display for a series of 12 open-air dates beginning August 21, 2022 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal and setting seven U.S. stadiums ablaze before concluding at Foro Sol in Mexico City on October 4, 2022. The tour is produced by AEG Presents .

Due to overwhelming popular demand, the tour has added a second date at the L.A. Coliseum on Saturday, September 24, 2022 and a third show at Foro Sol in Mexico City on Tuesday, October 4, 2022.

Tickets for the new shows will go on sale to the public 10 a.m. local time Friday, May 28. Tickets for the original shows will be honored at the rescheduled dates. To purchase tickets or for further information, go to rammstein.com .

RAMMSTEIN 2022 tour dates:

Aug. 21 - Montreal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau Aug. 27 - Minneapolis, MN – U.S. Bank Stadium Aug. 31 - Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field Sep. 03 - Chicago, IL – Soldier Field Sep. 06 - East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium Sep. 09 - Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium Sep. 17 - San Antonio, TX – Alamodome Sep. 23 - Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Sep. 24 - Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Oct. 01 - Mexico City, MX – Foro Sol Oct. 02 - Mexico City, MX – Foro Sol Oct. 04 - Mexico City, MX – Foro Sol

A year ago, RAMMSTEIN postponed its 2020 North American stadium tour due to the coronavirus pandemic which is sweeping the globe. The trek was then moved to the summer of 2021 before being postponed once again.

RAMMSTEIN 's seventh, untitled album came out in May 2019 via UME / Spinefarm in Europe and Caroline Records in the U.S. The band's first studio disc since 2009's "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da" debuted at No. 1 on the album charts in 14 countries and was the band's tenth No. 1 in Germany. The LP was produced by Olsen Involtini with RAMMSTEIN and was mixed at a Santa Monica, California studio with Rich Costey , an American producer who has previously worked with MUSE , RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and FRANZ FERDINAND , among others.

The 25th-anniversary edition of RAMMSTEIN 's debut album, "Herzeleid" , was made available in December via Vertigo / UMe . "Herzeleid (XXV Anniversary Edition - Remastered)" features the album's original track listing on a single CD, housed in a lavish, cross-shaped digipak with deluxe slipcase, and, for the first time ever, the remastered album with HD sound was made available digitally. In addition, there was a 2LP version with a slipcase containing two 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl discs with blue splatter effect. The creator of the original artwork, Dirk Rudolph , was also responsible for the "Anniversary Edition" packaging. The booklets also contain the original band portraits shot by Praler . Both the CD and vinyl editions are strictly limited.

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Rammstein Reschedule First North American Stadium Tour for 2022

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German metal heroes Rammstein have rescheduled their first North American stadium tour for 2022. The band originally scheduled the run for summer 2020, but were forced to postpone it because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 12-date trek is now set to launch August 21st, 2022 at the Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal and wrap with a newly added third show at Foro Sol in Mexico City on October 4th. Rammstein will hit all the cities they planned to visit on the 2020 run, although they’ve also added a second show at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on September 24th.

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Tickets for the two new shows in Los Angeles and Mexico City will go on sale to the public on May 28th at 10 a.m. local time via Rammstein’s website . Tickets purchased for the original run of shows will be honored at the rescheduled dates.

Rammstein’s most recent album was their untitled seventh LP , which was released in May 2019 and landed at Number Eight on Rolling Stone ’s Best Metal Albums of 2019 list.

Rammstein 2022 Tour Dates

August 21 – Montreal, QC @ Parc Jean-Drapeau August 27 – Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium August 31 – Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field September 3 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field September 6 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium September 9 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium September 17 – San Antonio, TX @ Alamodome September 23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum September 24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (new show) October 1 – Mexico City, MX @ Foro Sol October 2 – Mexico City, MX @ Foro Sol October 4 – Mexico City, MX @ Foro Sol (new show)

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• Song played from tape Music for the Royal Fireworks ( George Frideric Handel  song)
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• Song played from tape Haifisch ( Haiswing Remix by Olsen Involtini )
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We went to see Rammstein's stadium show and it blew our tiny minds

We went to check out Rammstein's show at Stadium MK and were met with unbelievable pyro, an exploding baby and the best stage show in modern metal

When Team Hammer piled into Milton Keynes' Stadium MK for the latest date in Rammstein 's stadium tour, we expected it to be epic. But we didn't expect it to be quite this epic. 

Packed to the brim with fans (every date in Rammstein's 2019 stadium tour quickly sold out; their 2020 stadium dates aren't far behind), we were treated to a performance that could only have come from the most innovative and fearless minds in modern metal.

Here are the things we learned. 

It was easily the best metal show a stadium has ever seen

From the towering, industrial nightmare of a set to the endless jets of flame, plumes of black smoke, stunning light show and, yes, confetti, this was a show for the ages – Rammstein planting their flag loudly and once again confirming themselves as the biggest and best show in rock music. Twenty five years in and the Teutonic titans are inexplicably still raising their own bar.

Was a quiet night in with Rammstein last night. pic.twitter.com/8H00YaAYBL July 7, 2019

The staging is from another planet

Rammstein's staging is something else. Have you ever seen a stage set that was actually bigger than the stadium it was in? You have now.

As you approach Stadium MK, two huge metallic fins are visible rising from the bowels of the arena, and once inside it feels like you're inside some sort of vast alien amphitheatre. It's the kind of construction special effects wizards spend thousands of hours constructing from CGI, but it's real, and you're in the middle. It's part Mad Max, part oil rig, part Mutoid Waste Company summer BBQ. 

Did somebody mention pyrotechnics?

During Sonne , it feels like you're standing in the middle of burning oil fields. Flames belch into the sky with a degree of ferocity that make you question not only your own safety but the sanity of whoever put this thing together. Add that to the acrid black smoke that curls into the sky, the cauldron, the canon and the colossal pram, and you're left with a show that batters the senses and blows the mind. It's literally staggering.  

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Hello old friend 😍#rammstein were unreal. 8th time seeing them and they never fail to suprise or deliver. pic.twitter.com/Axo8S8CY2R July 7, 2019

But not all pyro is good pyro

As we stand amid the plumes of acrid smoke on this particularly warm evening, we can't help but wonder about the junk being pumped into the air above Milton Keynes. Rammstein have made their name from their eyebrow-singeing stage shows, and it is admittedly spectacular, but pyro spews metal particles, dangerous toxins, harmful chemicals and smoke into the environment, and being only 40-or-so miles away from London – a city which has recently amped up its congestion charge because its air pollution is criminally bad – we're vaguely surprised Extinction Rebellion haven't set up camp outside. 

Rammstein are smart

Two examples: before the show kicks off, a sombre voice tells the crowd that the band would really prefer it if no one filmed the show, thank you very much. It's not an announcement that's greeted with universal approval, but you can see why they do it. It's not that they're necessarily concerned about low quality footage finding its way online, or that an arena filled with cameras will spoil anyone's experience: it's about spoilers . With a performance that's essentially a series of spectacularly-staged set pieces, they don't want to ruin the surprise for people going to tomorrow's show, or the night after's.  Second example: Rammstein have done the crowd-surfing-in-an-inflatable-rubber-dingy thing before. But here it takes on added meaning, as the band "row" from the second stage to the first, arriving in a manner that replicates the beginning of the Auslander video, with a hand-written sign reading "Willkommen" there to greet them. This is the kind of evolved, joined-up thinking you won't find at a Kiss show.   

34 years and one day after my first stadium gig (Springsteen, Wembley Stadium, July 5 1985), I've just seen the best. Rammstein. Christing fuck. pic.twitter.com/Gv3X2eu2Ph July 6, 2019

The old stunts still work a treat

Flake getting cooked! Dinghy-surfing across the crowd! The crossbow that shoots flames! There have been slight tweaks to the props, but these refined stunts still pack the same joy, and it doesn’t feel like being short-changed. That firework trick during Du Hast – where they race back and forth across the crowd – still takes the breath away.

...But did we mention the pyro?

Speaking of that Du Hast trick:

Rammstein blowing stuff up. pic.twitter.com/ee5qlR6tiK July 6, 2019

Their choice of set opener split opinion

Team Hammer were pretty much split down the middle on Rammstein's choice to open with the emotionally-charged Was Ich Liebe . Half felt that it was a strange choice – and that when Rammstein released the stomping Deutschland , it seemed like a song ready-made to open big rock shows. Given how retina-burningly epic the rest of the show was, they argued it made for a rather understated start to proceedings, and that the significant swelling of crowd noise when the sextet then kicked into Links 2 3 4 showed that perhaps it wasn't the best choice.

The other half disagreed completely, and felt that while Was Is Liebe might not be the most obvious choice for an entrance song, boy, did it deliver. They pointed out that the sinister music, the thick, black jets of smoke billowing from the stage and the repeater towers – creeping into the crowd until the whole stadium was filled with a noxious gas – was genuinely unsettling, like being trapped in a dystopian dictatorship where the planet is dying a toxic death. Like a piece of immersive theatre. 

Oh, not to mention the massive explosion that made the whole team swear in fear.

The light-up hoodies are... interesting

When the band emerged just before Deutschland , wearing light-up hoodies that looked like they'd been bought at a Cyberdog sale, no one knew what the hell was going on. What then followed was a charming – if slightly bemusing – interpretive dance routine, the musicians throwing shapes that made it look like a bunch of neon stickmen had invaded the stage. It was bizarre. It was daft. It could only have been Rammstein. 

#Rammstein Snake A photo posted by @loudlemmy on Jul 7, 2019 at 4:42am PDT

They’re not afraid to be political 

When they launch into Links 2 3 4 , the song they wrote to defy Nazi accusations, six massive Rammstein banners unfurl, as well as the digital banner on their huge, central tower. Between that and recent single Deutschland , it’s clear they’re still not afraid to look their history in the eye and subvert its iconography.

They’re individuals 

Like Slipknot and their masks , you can always rely on Rammstein to look weird. Flake still has a shiny suit, but this time it’s golden and mirrored. Oliver has some kind of orange morph suit on, and lights in his in-ear monitors. Till’s dressed like a general who’s gone to a far-flung country, slaughtered a bunch of snakes, and made a suit out of them. When Richard ascends the central tower to play his remix of Deutschland , he’s wearing a white, feathered pimp coat (and his red armband, obvs). Paul looks sort of like an 80s punk. Christoph looks like... Christoph. But there’s not a huge amount you can do when you’re behind a kit.

#Rammstein with their flame thrower last night #StadiumMK pic.twitter.com/YSMRka82Zp July 7, 2019

It's not very rock'n'roll

At this level of staging, with all the pyrotechnics, and the precision choreography, and all the confetti, your average Rammstein show has more in common with the Blue Man Group or the Cirque du Soleil than it does with a night out watching a band throw shapes in front of a wall of Marshalls.

But then again...

It's extremely rock'n'roll. If you're being reductive about it, it's easy to criticise Rammstein. Take Laibach's vocals and aesthetic, add some White Zombie riffs, light blue touch paper, stand well back. Blah blah blah. But the sum is so much greater than the parts, and live, those lurching riffs become absolute monsters. Like AC/DC, Rammstein are smart enough to imbue something that's essentially dumb with enough razor-sharp verve and wit to make it utterly irresistible. 

A few more from Rammstein last night at Stadium MK. Top gig! pic.twitter.com/4ATFyio0Bm July 7, 2019

They don't rely on video

In an age when stadium shows are all about video, and you leave a performance having essentially watched wide-screen television for a couple of hours, Rammstein use very little. Only during Puppe is video an integral part of the action, as Till Lindemann wears a head-cam that allows the crowd to witness the world's most terrifying baby as it screams from within a giant metallic perambulator. The rest of the time, you focus on the band. Which is really as it should be. And the fire.

#Rammstein #StadiumTour2019 #MiltonKeynes Martin A photo posted by @tipsique on Jul 7, 2019 at 4:33am PDT

Can we take a second to talk about that baby?

There's the giant perambulator. We’re shown an image of a truly freakish baby. Then the pram combusts, and ash (black confetti) fills the whole venue. That shit was the stuff of insane nightmares.

Nothing say #rammstein quite like a burning pram with a spewing baby #puppe #rammsteinlive Geordie Russell A photo posted by @geordierussell on Jul 7, 2019 at 4:55am PDT

One of the best nights of my life. Thank you #rammstein #mkstadium #miltonkeynes #heavymetal #germany #moshpit #insane Chris Lane A photo posted by @vxr_cl87 on Jul 7, 2019 at 4:52am PDT

Team Hammer particularly enjoyed the confetti

As evidenced by this short clip of Hammer editor Merlin Alderslade.

“Did you enjoy Rammstein then, Merl?” pic.twitter.com/6GrArYPkMj July 7, 2019

The setlist delivered

As you might expect for a band promoting a new album, the lion's share of the setlist came from the recently-released Rammstein album . Plenty of old favourites were thrown into the set, too – but the new material was met with just as much fervour as the time-tested hits.

Was ich liebe Links 2-3-4 Tattoo Sehnsucht Zeig dich Mein Herz brennt Puppe Heirate mich Diamant Deutschland Radio Mein Teil Du hast Sonne Ohne dich Engel Ausländer Du riechst so gut Pussy Rammstein Ich will

The video doesn’t do this justice, but the was epic! 🔥🔥🔥 #Rammstein pic.twitter.com/ThQzhETzvm July 7, 2019

Spare a thought for the MK Dons greenkeeper 

Who now has a paltry four weeks – as opposed to the standard eight – to get the MK Dons' home stadium pitch in working order before their first game of the season. The pitch's grass was lifted off in its entirety to accommodate Rammstein's epic set, and has to be completely replaced before the football team can play again. 

Just had a sneaky peak at the Rammstein stage being built for their concert @Stadium_MK on Saturday....it is blinking huge!!! 🎸🤘 pic.twitter.com/BgCgz6IPp1 July 4, 2019

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