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Radio 1 with Schneider - December 2005

This is the Radio 1 rock show and my name is Shcnieder I am the drummer of the band Rammstein.
We have a new album out, its name is Rosenrot. Maybe you know already, the single Benzin. I think we are really the first German rock band English people will listen to, nobody understands us but that’s your problem, we had that problem for 40 years listening to English music (laughs)

In Russia they are using Rammstein to teach German. If you are really into it you can learn German language and you will understand everything.
There is one sentence I really like in Benzin.
“Willst du dich von etwas trennen
dann musst du es verbrennen
Willst du es nie wieder sehen
lass es schwimmen in Benzin”
which means; if you want to get rid of something you have to let it swim in Benzin.
There is a song called Mann Gegen Mann which means men against men, unique Rammstein song and the lyrics are about homosexuality.

We are choosing 3 songs from different decades which we are very very into. The first is an old Pantera song which for me was the most cool song that Ben ever written and is called A New Level. Pantera is a band who nailed her music right on the point. When I heard that music for the first time it was like a fist into my face.
There is an essence of how to make heavy metal music and maybe there are some wild and harder bands out now. Patera play together especially bass and drums together is still an example of how to do it.

That was Pantera, A New Level, which I think one of the best songs of that band. It’s so cool!

Now we are going on in time and listening to something more modern to maybe some people call the most evil band on the planet right now, the American band, Slipknot. Today we will listen to the opening song to their 2001 album, Iowa. In the first, I didn’t like that band, I thought its too obvious, you know, just the masks and I didn’t listen too much to the music and the music was too fast and wild just pure energy. But we played the tours with them together in 2001 and I listened to the band 6 weeks every evening and I start to like it. I liked it the energy of the band and yeah, the music is maybe not so much on the point but it’s so wild and so outrageous that its definitely an important band in that genre.

(sigh/gasp) That was Slipknot, if we need a break we to breathe (giggles) a little bit.
Now we jump into the year 2005. I want to talk about the Scandinavian band
Meshuggah. A band I really admire for what they do, they did a remix for one of our songs, Benzin. When I first heard it for the first time I was very envy, like we could ever do that. Here is Meshuggah with Benzin.

© 2005 Dr Worm