Rammstein on the Big Day Out Festival

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RAMMSTEIN
- on the orange stage of the Big Day Out Festival from 8pm next sunday
This article is from the Australian paper Rave Magazine. They need some creds since it's their article. Also Lara Witchard deserves creds since she's the one that sent it to me. Love you!

in english (original version in german)

The mythology of Germany's Rammstein, while relatively youthful, is already suprisingly strong. Critics dig like fevered victims of an endless writers block to find the right sonic hole in which to pitch them, the right adjectives with which to euphemise their sound. Arguably, the only industrial metal act to succeed post-Metallica and Nine Inch Nails (to establish a couple of familiar refernece points), Rammstein also embrace a showmanship that has its roots as far back as the Weimer Republic.
Beacuse of their success in Europe and Australia, they were virtually silent in 2000, spending most of the year recording their third album, which is why on an exceedinly wet Sydney night, guitarist Richard Kruspe and drummer Christoph Schneider are sitting in a studio in Stockholm where its also and exceedingly wet and depressing....day. In the process of mixing the final tracks and looking at an early 2001 release, Schneider says " The sound has developed. It has becomed more rockier and there are more ballads - but don't worry, the Rammstein sound has been preserved."
Kruspe adds that the sound is much more bombastic and epic. "We did a lot of live recording and that meant it became bigger altogether. We actually began the sessions in France and tried to work with a lot of people but ended up in Sweden because our producer is Swedish and we had confidence in him that he would pick the perfect place and the perfect people to mix it. It's a well-travelled record. We've had to spend so much time on it because initially we had to write the songs as we didn't have anything stored up that we could use and we dont write on the road."
And it's endless touring that has built their reputation. Rammstein's records may have sold well but the translation point has been their crazed industrial cabaret-inspired show. The sextet may be heavy but theyre smart. "We've developed a style of out own" Schneider says, " and its very different from the American and the British style, both of which dominate the scene these days. What we're doing is German style, which I call industrial music. It characterises our band even though people in different countries have given it various other names, and the fact we sing in German enhances the fact that we are different. Add to that the live show which is quite unique. What we're really doing is giving people an option to what they might normally get"