There is just no band like Rammstein. Like many fans after a Rammstein concert, I can only say I expected a lot but their performance surpassed all my expectations. More than 10 yars waiting... well, it was worth the wait.
Incredible show: pyros, fireworks, stage performance, crowd-diving, Till's very powerful on stage presence, Flake crowd-surfing while drinking beer... simply AWESOME!
In short, boring Manowar's performance is over, a black curtain covers the stage, the next 40 minutes Rammstein are preparing the stage, the curtain is lifted, the crowd is shouting, the German flag pops up, then it's quickly removed and Rammstein start off with Rammlied.
We got all you can expect during a Rammstein's gig: pyros, fireworks and again pyros. As they say "Other bands play, Rammstein burn". However, the effects didn't distract us from the band members' incredibly good acting out, just the opposite, they added to the overall effect. Here I cannot go without mentioning the compelling German lyrics. I love the fact that they sing in German. In the metal world where most bands sing in English, Rammstein do stand out singing out exclusively in German. I don'ti know what statistics say but Rammstein must be Deutschland's number one export band... and also their lyrics despite the controfersial content are actually very understandable and thus, very appropriate for beginners in the language.
The et list was focused on their last album, but there were still a couple of songs from old albums... they didn't perform "Mutter" and "Amerika" but the fans didn't seem to care much.
When they performed P****, a white plastic cannon shooting foam at the first rows of the audience was brought on stage. The fans were going mad and Till spoke a little Bulgarian... he just sang the most obsence words in Bulgarian and the crowd simply went wild. I guess now they don't sound as obsene and as offensive to many people. Being less than 10 metres away from Till, I could myself feel the heat from all the pyros and I loved the foam, it's seems everyone around responded the same way, people were just stretching out hands to get more from the foam.
In the end, during Ich will we heard Til spoke little Bulgarian but with a remarkably good pronunciation. "Ich will eure Hände sehen--rytsete gore" , "Obicham vi" ...
The Setlist for 23rd of June, Sofia, Bulgaria:
1. Rammlied
02. B********
03. Waidmanns Heil
04. Keine Lust
05. Feuer frei!
06. Wiener Blut
07. Frьhling in Paris
08. Ich tu dir weh
09. Du riechst so gut
10. Benzin
11. Links 2 3 4
12. Du hast
13. Pussy
Encore
14. Sonne
15. Haifisch
16. Ich will
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