September 30, 2005
Rosenrot Tracklisting
The Rosenrot tracklisting has been released by Universal.dk:
- Benzin - Petrol
- Mann gegen Mann - Man against man
- Rosenrot - Rose red
- Spring - Jump
- Wo bist du - Where are you
- Stirb nicht vor mir (Don't die before me)
- Zerstören - Destroy
- Hilf mir - Help me
- Te quiero puta - I love you, bitch
- Feuer & Wasser - Fire & Water
- Ein Lied - A song
Thanks to Keine Lust for this info.
September 25, 2005
Video Interview
Added a video interview from Reportage Arte.
Rosenrot Cover
The Rosenrot cover has been released and can be found in the releases section. If it seems familiar to you, that's because it's basically the same exact cover as the Japanese version of the Reise, Reise album recycled with a few minor changes for the Rosenrot album.
Fan Submissions
Added a fan art by Chazz.
September 19, 2005
Benzin Video
You can view the video on the director's website. Quicktime is needed to view the video.
Benzin Single
The Benzin single info has been added. For specific release dates for various countries, check rammstein.com.
September 11, 2005
Benzin lyrics
Added the German lyrics of Benzin and a translation
Fan Submissions
Added one more review from the Berlin shows and added three wallpapers by Sonne. I have added everything that has been submitted to me so far, so if you do not see your submission, try sending it again. This excludes fan fics because I think I am going to take that section of the site down soon since it is not looked at very often.
September 7, 2005
Single/Album release dates
It's been confirmed on Universal in Germany that Benzin will be released October 7th and Rosenrot will be released on October 28th in Germany (and probably Austria and Switzerland). Release dates for other areas have not been announced, but you can expect Rosenrot to probably be released in all of Europe around the same date as in Germany.
New Pictures
New pictures have been uploaded. These are the Rosenrot press images.
Fan Submissions
Added many new reviews, mostly from June and July of this year, but also one from February.
September 1, 2005
RammImages.com Update
From the moderating team at RammImages.com:
Minx received a letter from the lawyers of Rammstein
today, which she has responded to. There is hope that the current situation
will be resolved as soon as possible.
Whilst we await further development I am asking for the emails that people
have been sending to management to end. We will give them the opportunity
to reply positively. If this reply is not received then we will start
again and we will then also issue press releases. Please send no more
emails/snail mails to management or the shop until further notice.
I would like to also thank everyone for the fantastic support given,
in the sending of mails, signing the petition and good moral support
in general. The response has been incredible and shows what a great community
Rammstein fans are!
thanks to all
I would also like to thank everyone for supporting Minx and her website,
the way Rammstein fans have pulled together to help her site and Sebastian's
site have been commendable.
August 29, 2005
RammImages.com
Management has posted a response, backpedaling as much as they can,
to the RammImages.com Attack (this is copied directly from the official
site, all rights reserved, no copyright infringement intended, blah blah
blah).
Neither Rammstein nor their managment or lawyers
have had shut down the www.rammimages.com site. The domain host was simply
asked to remove some photos, for which this person does not own publishing
rights. Rammstein signed many different contracts in collaboration with - among
others - video directors, designers, graphic designers, record company,
publishing company and also photographers. Those contracts agree on who
what, when and where is allowed to publish, some of it - for instance - is
exclusively, for intern usage or meant to be published at a later date.
www.rammimages.com has published photos, which belong into this category
and was therefore asked to remove the pictures from the site. Additionally,
there were discussions about how to produce their own Rammstein shirts
the best way on this page, the domain host was precautionary made aware,
that the production of bootlegs is illegal and was asked to make their
users aware of it. That was it! If the domain host uses the occasion
to close the site, we can only (like any others) wonder.
Now, this is what the moderating team on Minx's forum had to say about
that:
The declaration on Rammstein.com does not really
tell how things are.
Minx has received a declaration to cease and desist from a lawyer, to
close the picture gallery and to name those who provided the pics to
her.
It was never said as a reason that there were or are contracts signed
between Rammstein and others about the publishing of pics.
And minx was not "asked" to remove the pics, she was requested by laywers
under the thretening of a penalty and damages with no amount mentioned
right now, if the declaration is not sent to the lawyers til 09.09.05.
Concerning the "t-shirt" topic, they were meant as a campiagn for rammimages.com
and the members of that forum. They all took care of NOT violating copyrights
of Rammstein, everybody reading the whole thead concerning this topic
could understand and see that.
As the management did not contact Minx before the letter of the lawyers
was received it is no wonder that Minx decided to remove the site (for
now), and the astonishment at the end of the offical statement is not
really fitting.
I've known Minx for more than a year and I'm sure the truth is closer
to her side than it is to management's side since, so far, this is almost
a carbon copy of what happened to rammsteinfan.de before it shut down.
Rammstein and their management do have a right to refuse that certain
pictures or files be posted on the net, but the biggest complaint that
most of us fans have is in the manner that they are disallowing it. A
simple email to Minx would have sufficed, a cease and desist letter from
a lawyer with the possibility of financial losses and being forced to
disclose names of those who contributed images was very extreme. Management
still seems to ignore the bigger problem of people selling images, bootlegs,
pre-released material, and Rammstein items with fake nazi affiliations
on ebay and profiting off of them, but I guess a FANsite with some copyright
infringements (many of which Minx would not know about if the photographer
signed a contract with management not to release those photos) that offers
free publicity to the band is more important. Please continue sending
your emails to management as this is definitely not over yet.
August 26, 2005
RammImages.com Forced to Close
Rammstein's management has struck again! Some of you may remember that in late July of 2004, RammsteinFan.de was sued by Rammstein and their management and Sebastian was forced to close his site. The new victim is Minx of RammImages.com who has been given a "cease and desist" letter in management's neverending attack of loyal Rammstein fansites because of some copyright issues over some of the images on her site. Minx is one of the most loyal Rammstein fans who has done what she could to make sure she only put up images on her site that she had permission for by the photographers, to protect the personal lives of the band members, and to protect the fans and the band themselves from the selling of illegal materials which could financially hurt the band. They repay her by forcing her to shut her site down. Since there is no contact information on rammstein.com, if you would like to send an email to management, please use the contact form in the official shop and hopefully the messages will be passed on to Emu, their manager.
Tour Dates Cancelled
The South American and Mexican dates for October have been cancelled due to a band member's illness. There was no word on whether or not the dates will be rescheduled.
August 19, 2005
New Album and Single
Rammstein have confirmed that the new album will be named Rosenrot after a song that was originally going to be released as the first single from Reise, Reise. The first single will be Benzin, which will include several remixes, and the video for it has already been shot.
Fan Submissions
Added four wallpapers by Ross.
August 16, 2005
New Tour Dates
New tour dates have been added in October for Mexico and South America.
Galleries
You may have noticed that the galleries have been slightly redone, especially the music videos galleries. There might still be a couple of bugs to work out in those sections, so if you see any bugs (other than the music video names showing up as one word), please contact me.
Fan Submissions
Added a fan fic by Hilary Moberg.
More Updates Coming
I've been very busy lately, but I do have more updates coming, particularly concert reviews from Britain.
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