Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact. It was meanwhile ten years ago that the last album of Rammstein had been release. Already to that time the hubbub was immense but then after the release when the album was threatened by censorship. After the first concentration camp teaser video the outcry was immense even beforehand and the interest into the new album was a hard act to follow. For the first time in their meanwhile 25 years lasting history they will be going onto a stadium tour for which the tickets were already sold-out within 4 hours despite additional dates.
The opening was formed by the Veltins Arena at Gelsenkirchen to which at two evenings more than Even though there were long queues everywhere one could get into the arena quite quick and sorted where a gigantic stage was waiting. Were former Rammstein stages already huge is this one gigantic, wow! But initially one had to wait. The video started worldwide at and was shown two times in a row on the big video cube. After nearly 45 minutes Rammstein as piano version there was polite applause when the two ladies said goodbye to all.
Meanwhile the roof of the stadium was opened and luckily during the concert except some drips it stayed dry during the day there were some downpours with thunderstorms.
That was also mandatory because quite quick one got to know why. At fanfares from tape announced finally the main act of the evening: Rammstein. The Germany colors black-red-gold were dominating the clothes of the artists, so, Schneider and Kruspe were dressed in black and red, Flake was wearing a suit plated with golden metal plates that reflected the lights extremely, Landers a red metallic outfit and additionally colored his face in red metallic and Lindemann a golden coat with a golden uniform below and additionally golden colored face.
The setlist was quite mixed but of course the new album was dominating. Lindemann and additionally an incredibly loud singing and celebrating audience. To that after a short time all the other musicians except singer Lindemann came back wearing overalls with LED lights.
