The type of spectacular show which you want to return to Landgraaf every year
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- Rammstein at Pinkpop 2016
- © Jelmer de Haas
Monstrous masks where lick impressive tongues of flame, fireworks in front, behind and on the stage, and Till Lindemann who blows himself with a bomb belt: just what visual violence alone the first half hour Rammstein . The world’s largest industrial metal band is at Pinkpop again spectacular as ever. And yet there is something touching in the show from Rammstein. How is that right?
THE CONCERT:
Rammstein, Pinkpop Main Stage, Saturday, June 11, 2016
THE ACT:
‘Risen from the ruins, fortunately for man and machine, make haste from far and wide. We’re back, “It’s the fourth time that Till Lindemann and put Teutons foot in Landgraaf, and they come up with a sort-of-new number.” Ramm 4 ‘, which in the chorus after a brilliant mishmash of old Rammstein song titles. An ode to the past, something that the world’s largest industrial metallers is accused to have more faces, so to speak. Lindeman still looks like a German executioner of a miner, his cables poor battered and covered in mud. 53 years he has been, and with age comes the frightening fatigue which he marches around just naturalness him. And while he was obviously mocking clown licking his microphone lusty and occasionally swings mold on the stage, the man Rammstein maybe even laughs harder than all of us.
THE NUMBER:
Where their previous Pinkpop show kinda leaned on latest album Liebe ist für alle da is this another grotesque parade of hits. Unlikely rave anthem “Du Hasst ‘is the greatest of all, brotherly meegebruld over the field.
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- Rammstein at Pinkpop 2016
- © Jelmer de Haas
THE TIME:
Better question: what time is not? Probably there is no act that takes so many pyrotechnics and stage props in the entire history of Pinkpop. Just which setopening, where the air behind the stage is fired and Rammstein will descend from the ceiling. Those weird masks flames cast in ‘Feuer frei’. When Lindemann himself almost laconic blows up as a suicide bomber, to sing a song later again that he still did not feel like to sit on his dick or stabbing into him somewhere. In one quarter Rammstein is there to see all the same as in the entire last Star Wars movie. How about also the keyboardist dressed as a prisoner gagbal, dragged by Lindemann as SM-master forward, thrown into a bin after which he pours fire over the poor guy? Which rises on again glitter suit to struggle on the rest of the show on a treadmill.
But the monumental and almost touching picture of Rammstein that everyone is etched in the memory is the moment when Lindemann again air flying like burning angel, especially for those who Lindemann have never seen at work (and to see the many young faces in the first box, that there are quite a few).
WHAT NEXT noticed:
In the encore stage suddenly turns blue-white-red anti-US anthem “America” for the first time since played live again.
THE PUBLIC:
Whole tribes have been torn to Rammstein to see you at work: they are mostly large, somewhat older men from all power spanned the veins in their necks while they who closed scream along to hits. But even the front pocket is more diverse than expected, with just 18 boys and very young girls with chokers which the band now see for the first time and let overwhelm him.
THE VERDICT:
What makes that whole tribes can identify with the militant music of Rammstein? What makes that they are actually moved by Lindemann? It is not so much the sheer display of power or those little nods to the past, because eventually Lindemann still sings primarily an ardent and universal desire: the desire to belong, the desire to do pain (out of love) and especially the desire for the other. Sometimes almost saccharine (yes really!), Sometimes just to stabbing into something him. How familiar do you want it? And wrapped in a sensational performance that unites ridiculous sensational show elements become real hits with mountains, humor and ability. The type of action which you are again prepared every year to come to Landgraaf.
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