North American Leg Announced

Okay, so I'm late to the party, but I'm here aren't I? *

Rammstein has announced NA dates:

Following the conclusion of their European tour dates in spring 2012, Rammstein will present their retrospective "Made In Germany 1995-2011" in North America as well!

As of today, 21 concerts have been confirmed for April to May 2012!

General presale will be staggered over three weekends in November/December 2011. First weekend is 18 and 19 November 2011.
All tour dates and the respective starts for pre-sales can be found here.

Links to the official ticket offices will follow shortly.

LIFAD members will be able to secure tickets one day earlier. Further information will be announced this week in the LIFAD.

* I have managed to sustain second degree burns to my back, and have spent a good part of the day feeling very sorry for myself. Before that I was attending a conference. Before that I was painting my house. Forgive me?

Correction: Attendance Figure

I'm afraid I made something of an assumption regarding the 100,000 number I posted this morning. Because it wasn't specified I assumed that number was for the entire leg of the tour, but it turns out that it's only for the US and Canada! Mexico is not included. That just makes it even more impressive.

Attendance High

The latest leg of the LIFAD tour has been rather impressive, especially if you consider only the US shows, because we all know Mexico has a long-term love affair with Rammstein, which is entirely reciprocated, and Canada is multilingual anyway. An official source has told me that attendance across this entire leg (including Mexico and Canada) has been around 100,000. That is huge. The USA is a hard market for non-English-singing acts to break into, yet Rammstein has smashed their way in, torched the place, and come away with the sort of attendance number that an English-singing band would be proud of. Way to go Rammstein!

Correction: This figure is not for Canada, USA, and Mexico. It's just for the US and Canada! Awesome :)

My Latest Finds

I have two things to post, but neither warrant its own article, so here they are:

LA Review with slideshow
Toronto photos

Three More Write-ups

Toronto Review
Oakland Review
Another Oakland Review

Rammstein Fan Missing

A Rammstein fan, who was to cycle from Calgary to Edmonton to attend the Rammstein show, has not come back. According to this article he hasn't been seen or heard from by his family since May 8, and they don't know if he was intending to meet anyone or not. This disappearance is apparently out of character, so if you know or met up with Scott Chunn, 25, at the Toronto show please contact Calgary police.

Eric Tavares Photos

Chart Attack has posted photos from Toronto.

A Bigarse Post

I've got a hoard of material for you, which I would normally have posted as I found its parts, but it's just all been a bit much so this is something of a megapost:

Affenknecht: Review of Chicago
LA Lead-In
Tacoma Review
Toronto Review
Oakland Lead-In
Montreal Review
Silly Work of Fiction
Photos

&

Where to Go to See Rammstein on Kimmel After the Fact

Another Edmonton Journal Review

Yes, two of their writers tackled Rammstein. Here is the first one I linked to...first, and then the latest one I found:

An eye-popping, ear-blasting show.
Rammstein delivers

A Nice Pair

I had built a list of links during the day yesterday, and then my host, Blogger, went into read-only mode so they could perform maintenance on their systems, so instead of going through them them in during the day yesterday, and posting as I hit worthwhile reads, I am posting them now, together...and there were only two worth their salt:

Mothers' Day with 16,000 friends and 6 crazy Germans
An eye-popping, ear-blasting show.

I'll try and find more for you.

Three Write-Ups

The first two are for the Toronto show:

A Spectacle
Rammstein Burns

The third is regarding the NJ show:

Fire in the Hole

Bell Center Rings

There are some great photos here from the Montreal show.

A Battery of Canadians (New Collective Noun) on Rammstein Live

A couple of write-ups of the Toronto show:

Fun and Fire
Explosive

Engel in Montreal

Thanks to SchwarzesGlas.com for the link:


Rammstein_Engel by vistadd

LIFAD Wants You

LIFAD has issued an order to the USA, Mexico, and Canada. It wants to see its heart everywhere, and has linked to graphical resources on its site for fans to download. You can make of that what you will, but it sounds like a recipe for an impressive display at the upcoming shows, if enough people get into it.

Premature Rammdulation

Can someone in Montreal please go down to the Bell Center and see if there's a chap camped out and waiting there for Rammstein's May 7 show, who answers to the handle SchwarzesGlas? If you do this please get back to me with a photo (assuming he's okay with this), because this kind of devotion is exceptional and needs publicising.

Rammstein's American Gallery Up

Rammstein have updated their photo album for the recent leg of the LIFAD tour. There are some pretty cool photos of the band and fans there now.

A Series of Loud Reports...

Contrary to my usual practice I am not reading these before posting them, simply because I'm insanely busy right now. It's that time of year, and I work as a community manager, so it's that time of year and then some. I'll just link to them in turn:

Braingell Radio on NYC
Spin on NYC
Metal Insider on NYC
NYT on NYC
Phil Freeman (The Village Voice blog) on NYC & possibly his photos
Chart Attack on Montreal

Hopefully they're good reads!

Set?

Pierrick has kindly provided the correct set for the North American shows, after I made a complete hash of it, so I've deleted what was here.

Rammlied
B********
Waidmanns Heil
Keine Lust
Weisses Fleisch
Feuer frei!
Wiener Blut
Fruhling in Paris
Ich tu dir weh
Du riechst so gut
Benzin
Links 2-3-4
Du hast
Pussy
--
Sonne
Haifisch
Ich will
--
Engel

Because I can!

Montreal in the Frame

Here's a gallery of photographs from the 9th. Montreal brings out the best in Rammstein, methinks.

I <3 Canadians. I need to visit that country.