The German industrial metal band delivers a thrilling night on the first of two shows at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum this weekend.
singer Till Lindemann wore a backpack tank of some very flammable liquid to ignite jets of fire in a towering semi-circle around him. And the one with a horrifying demon doll inside a giant baby buggy that also ended in flames.
Turns out, it’s kind of disorienting to walk into a Rammstein stadium show in progress: 50,000 or more fans fulling engaged, chanting and singing with Lindemann and the band – in German, no less, which is something when you take in the diversity of its Southern California fans. It’s a behemoth on which the six Rammsteiners – Lindemann, guitarists Richard Kruspe and Paul Landers down front, bassist Oliver Riedel, drummer Christoph Schneider, and keyboardist Christian “Flake” Lorenz in back – would seem insignificant but for the powerful assault of their sound.
“Mein Teil” – literally “My share,” but apparently also slang for a very personal body part – was the theatrical highlight of the night. Inspired by a real-life infamous German case of … well, cannibalism, this is one where Lindemann, wearing a butcher’s apron and carrying a knife, uses a flamethrower, and then a flame cannon, on keyboardist Flake inside the 5-foot-tall cauldron.
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