Stories from Colombia
The community's human archive: how Rammstein entered the life of every Colombian fan.
Real testimonials from Colombian fans, as they sent them through the community form. We keep adding: the archive isn't closed.
Subscribe (RSS)Santiago · Bogotá
The ticket is all that's left
He was in the Flame zone in Sopó, but with so many tall people in front he barely saw them. The photos were lost with a stolen phone: he has the ticket left, and a bootleg CD he still keeps.
Read story →Andrés · Pasto
From Pasto to the store in Berlin
He found them three years ago and they already took him to German classes and into the band's store in Berlin, where he walked out with a pin.
Read story →Jorge Humberto · Palmira
Since Herzeleid, from Palmira
He's been listening since 1998, when he found Herzeleid. He has never seen them live and had never joined a fan club before.
Read story →Andrés · Bogotá
New Year's Eve in Puerto Vallarta
He missed the only concert in Colombia and made up for it by travelling to the New Year's show the band played in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Read story →Andrea · Medellín
The son named Till
She didn't come in through «Du Hast» but through «Engel», and it was love at first sight. Her favourite song is «Mein Herz brennt» and she named her son Till.
Read story →Elena · Bogotá
The tattoo waiting for them to come back
Twenty years of industrial metal. She missed the concert in Colombia for family reasons and is saving the tattoo for when the band returns.
Read story →Sebastián · Bogotá
The tattoo he got at seventeen
He picked up basic German for the pleasure of it thanks to the band. He's had the tattoo since he was 17: done by someone still learning, and it came out ugly.
Read story →Javier Andrés
Studying, sleeping and training with Rammstein
He found them in the MTV and MTV II years. Since then their songs have soundtracked everything: studying, sleeping, working and working out.
Read story →Laura · Bogotá
A friend of fifteen years and the club's events
She's been listening since 2001. She shares it with a friend of fifteen years, and together they go to the events one of the club's founders organises.
Read story →Andrea · Bogotá
The cat named Engel
She's 39 and listens to them Monday through Sunday, morning, afternoon and night. She collects nothing from the band, but her cat is named Engel.
Read story →Juan Pablo · Bogotá
He came for the meme and stayed for the lyrics
He met them in 2014 as «that band from the meme song». A couple of years later he came back for the lyrics and the videos, and never left.
Read story →Laur · Bogotá
She carries them right down to her nails
She grew up in a family of metalheads. She doesn't get tattoos on principle, but she wears the band on her clothes and even on her nails.
Read story →Julián
A musician because of them
He's been listening since he was eight and says it flatly: he's a musician thanks to Rammstein. He still hasn't managed to see them live.
Read story →Jamess · Bogotá
He'd rather carry them in his heart
He found them in 2008, in sixth grade. No tattoos: he says he'd rather carry them in his heart. They shaped his taste in music.
Read story →Félix · Villavicencio
He got married the day of the concert
Rammstein played in Colombia on his wedding day. He traded the concert for the wedding and kept a pin from a meet-up at Simón Bolívar park.
Read story →Sebastián · Subachoque
A collection that's still missing records
He's 26 and found them at school. He's slowly building his collection of studio albums, and admits several are still missing.
Read story →Jhoan · Bogotá
An entire wall devoted to the band
Fifteen years following them without ever seeing them live. He has a whole wall holding almost every release on CD and vinyl.
Read story →Daniel · Bogotá
Twenty-three years a fan, and the Pyro section
He found the band around 2000–2001 and was there on December 3, 2010, in the Pyro section — the one closest to the fire.
Read story →Duvan · Bogotá
To the concert, alone
"Feuer Frei!" on PlayTV at thirteen. He's never had friends who like the band, so he went to the Bogotá concert alone — and loved it.
Read story →Alexis · Medellín
Fourteen hours by bus from Medellín
He travelled fourteen hours from Medellín for the December 3, 2010 concert. He plays drums, knows almost every song, and has the tattoo.
Read story →Andrés · Medellín
Five languages and every vinyl
"Ohne Dich" made him decide to learn German. Today he speaks five languages and owns every Rammstein, Lindemann and Till solo vinyl.
Read story →Andrés Felipe · Bogotá
Four signatures in Sopó and two to go
During the 2010 visit he got signatures from Flake, Richard, Paul and Schneider. He has waited outside hotels in Tampa and Mexico City for the two he's missing.
Read story →Alexis · Turbaco
From Cúcuta to Bogotá, and late because of work
He travelled from Cúcuta to Bogotá for the 2010 concert, arrived late because of work and ended up far back in Pyro. He enjoyed it anyway.
Read story →Antonio · Bogotá
From the Briceño mud to a bar in Cajicá
He watched the 2010 concert with mud up to his knees. A year later, the STEIN tribute travelled from Medellín to a countryside bar in Cajicá.
Read story →Andrés · Bogotá
From the 2017 cinema screening to Philadelphia
He couldn't make it in 2010, but he was at the 2017 cinema screening and at a Treffen that same year. In 2022 he flew to Philadelphia.
Read story →Javier · Bogotá
Since 1997 and several Treffen
He's listened to industrial since 1997, saw them in Colombia and has attended several Treffen. He'd like more turnout at the next ones.
Read story →Ana Isabel · Medellín
Ten years with the logo tattooed
She's followed the band since she was 14 and has had the logo tattooed for a decade. She keeps building her collection and waiting for that first concert.
Read story →Claudia · Bogotá
Twelve hours without water to hold out
She arrived at the 2010 concert with gastroenteritis and went twelve hours without drinking water so she wouldn't miss it. The next day they walked past her at the airport.
Read story →Juan Sebastián · Bogotá
The German that launched his career
He learned German at ten years old to understand the lyrics, and that language ended up driving his professional career. He saw them in 2010, in Mexico in 2022, and missed out in Vienna.
Read story →César Augusto · Cali
"Not sure humble El Campín could take it"
He met them through "Amerika" on MTV's Top 10 and rediscovered them twenty years later in a YouTube concert. He has 30 rock shows behind him and none of theirs.
Read story →Heider · Bogotá
The sunflower cassette
His devotion began with the "Du riechst so gut" cassette, first edition, the one with the sunflower. He found them at school in 1999 and still hasn't seen them.
Read story →Juan David · Bogotá
The motto he's carried since 2013
He came from thrash metal and hated trends. A friend got him deconstructing Rammstein's music, and since a 2013 gathering he's carried "Liebe ist für alle da" as his motto.
Read story →Halbert · Bogotá
The Briceño mud pit
He walked out of the 2010 mud with clothes fit for the bin. Twelve years later he went to all three Mexico City dates.
Read story →Jhonathan · Bogotá
The piggy bank he made by hand
"Seemann" and "Stirb nicht vor mir" pulled him out of a very hard stretch. He's saving up to see them in a piggy bank he built himself.
Read story →Diego · Bogotá
The metal podcast on university radio
He ran a metal podcast on Universidad del Rosario's radio station. He saw them in Sopó and travels to Gelsenkirchen this year.
Read story →Pily · Cundinamarca
The birthday present that never happened
She was going to give herself the Mexico 2022 concert for her birthday. The person she invited turned her down, her spirits dropped and she didn't go. She still regrets it.
Read story →Paola
The nephew who travelled for the family
The love for the band reached the next generation, and as a family they decided her nephew would be the one to travel to Spain to see them.
Read story →Esteban · Bogotá
The Till Lindemann of Yo Me Llamo
He learned guitar and German because of the band, and in 2023 he competed as Till Lindemann on Colombian TV show Yo Me Llamo, singing his favourite songs on stage.
Read story →Oscar
The work shift that cost him the concert
A cousin introduced him to the band and today it's the one he listens to most. The one time they came he was at work and couldn't go: it still hurts.
Read story →William · Cartagena
The VHS that a downpour ruined
He had Live aus Berlin on VHS and the Pyro ticket from Sopó. When he moved cities, a downpour took it all.
Read story →Juan Carlos · Cajicá
Herzeleid in 1998 and a dream in Berlin
He came to the band in 1998 through Herzeleid and was in Sopó in 2010. He doesn't collect much, but he keeps the mementos of that night and bought the concert films.
Read story →Faust · Bogotá
The bicycle named Engel
He was front row in Sopó, lost the photos, and named his commuting bicycle Engel. The day he met his girlfriend he was wearing the band's hoodie.
Read story →Alexander · Medellín
The huge decal on the car
He discovered them at 18 and he's now 42. He put a huge decal on his car, no longer has the car, and still listens to them daily.
Read story →Daniel
Rammstein-ised wheel rims
He found the band through a bootleg Linkin Park CD, went to greet them at the airport in 2010, and painted his motorbike rims. His mum is a bigger fan than he is.
Read story →Gustavo · Bogotá
Mexico, Lisbon, Barcelona
He's never seen them in Colombia, but he's up to three countries: Mexico 2022, Lisbon 2023 and Barcelona 2024. He plays guitar and suggests a covers night.
Read story →Angélica · Bogotá
An exchange to Germany and a thesis
Colleagues at a geek shop passed her the music. The following year she went on exchange to Germany and wrote her thesis there: that's where the country and the band sank in.
Read story →Raquel
Amerika in a social studies class
A teacher played the «Amerika» video in a high school class. Almost a decade later, she'll travel alone to Barcelona to see them for the first time.
Read story →Christian · Bogotá
Ares, a Catholic school, and a little radio at recess
At a Catholic school where that kind of music wasn't allowed, he made do with a little radio at recess. His dream: getting soaked by Till's foam during «Pussy».
Read story →Carlos Andres · Bogotá
A drummer because of Christoph Schneider
His dad played it for him starting at five. As a teenager he got so obsessed he took up drums inspired by Christoph Schneider — today he plays in three bands.
Read story →Leidy · Bogotá
Snow White in the front rows
She went to the 2010 concert in Colombia dressed as Snow White. Twelve years later, she repeated the costume in Mexico.
Read story →Tania · Bogotá
Singing in German without knowing what she's saying
She's listened to the band since she was five, thanks to her older brother. She hasn't seen them in person yet, but she never misses the tributes held in Bogotá.
Read story →Sergio · Bogotá
Almost twenty years in Rammstein Colombia
Part of the community for almost twenty years, since he discovered «Du Hast» in 1996. He saw the band on their only visit to Colombia and saw them again in Mexico in 2022.
Read story →Angela · Bogotá
When the plans to see AC/DC changed
In 2010 she was planning to travel to Buenos Aires to see AC/DC, but when Rammstein was announced for Colombia, everything changed. That's where she met the love of her life.
Read story →Camila Andrea · Bogotá
Daniel, one of the founders, and five countries later
Meeting Daniel, one of RammCol's founders, connected her to the community. Since Sopó in 2010 she's seen them in Berlin, Mexico, Poland, and Mexico again.
Read story →German · Bogotá
From Canal 13 to a flight to Prague
He discovered the band through the Mutter videos on Canal 13, in 2001. Twenty-three years later, he flew to Prague to see them live for the first time.
Read story →Fabián Hernando · Cajicá
From band interest to B1-level German
A loyal follower since 2002, he never misses a tribute or a cinema screening. Because of Rammstein he started studying German — he's now at B1 level.
Read story →Duván
From a field in Bogotá to Foro Sol
He couldn't afford to go to the 2010 concert in Bogotá for lack of a job. Twelve years later, he traveled to Mexico and Spain to see them.
Read story →Juan Felipe · Arauca
From Arauca to Prague
A fan since 2010, but too young to attend the concert in Colombia. Fourteen years later, he's finally traveling to Prague to see them.
Read story →Evelin · Calgary
From Calgary to Barcelona
She's lived in Canada for years and has never seen them live. This year, at last, she's traveling to Barcelona to change that.
Read story →Mireya · Bogotá
Du Hast as a lullaby
She's played «Du Hast» for her daughter since she was four, and the girl starts jumping around. Because of the band's love of BDSM themes, she even took up shibari.
Read story →Luis Felipe · Medellín
The album that got its cover stolen
He discovered the band through «Du Hast» without knowing which album it was from. He bought «Herzeleid» and its cover got stolen before he found his mistake.
Read story →Andrés
The button from Sputnik Bar
After Stein's tribute show, someone gave him a button at Sputnik Bar. He's followed the band for more than fifteen years and dreams of his first Rammstein tattoo.
Read story →Niki · Bogotá
The meetup at the supermarket nobody showed up to
A photographer and videographer by trade, he documented the band from an airport security line to a ghost meetup at a Bogotá grocery store.
Read story →Alejandra · Bogotá
The bridge that led her to her partner
Through Rammstein Colombia's meetups and a trip to Hell and Heaven in Mexico, she met her current partner — together they've seen the band four more times.
Read story →Óscar · Sopó
The jacket that's been with him for five years
He started learning German because of the band. His only piece of Rammstein merch, a jacket, has been with him for five years.
Read story →Valery · Bogotá
The Engel tattoo she hasn't gotten yet
Her dad saved up to take her to the 2010 concert, but by the time he had the money, the tickets were gone.
Read story →Nelson Iván · San Gil
The shaky video he filmed in 2010
He traveled alone from San Gil to the field where the band played in 2010, and filmed the show with a camera that had no image stabilization.
Read story →Yenny Mauren · Bogotá
Pregnant in the PYRO zone
She went to the 2010 concert three months pregnant and still has the ticket thirteen years later. Today her son shares the same love for the band and for German.
Read story →Mabel · Bogotá
At the airport when the band landed
She was at the airport when the band arrived in Colombia in 2010, won a banner and a flag in a raffle, and has «Mein Herz Brennt» tattooed on her.
Read story →Johnny · Medellín
Flake floated right over me in his dinghy
He discovered them through the «Du Riechst So Gut» video in 1998. At the 2010 Bogotá concert, Flake floated right over him in his inflatable dinghy, riding the crowd.
Read story →Adolfo · Bogotá
Taping Rock 8 onto cassette
In the early 2000s, he taped the band's songs off Radioacktiva's Rock 8 show. This April he's finally traveling to Spain to see them in person.
Read story →Juan David · Calarcá
Taping MTV videos since 1998
He started taping the band's MTV videos back in 1998. He was at Rammstein's first show in Colombia, in December 2010.
Read story →Nicolás · Bogotá
Thank you, in German, to Olli, Richard, and Paul
A career diplomat, he learned German because of Rammstein. At an after-party in Berlin in 2016, he met three members of the band and thanked them, in their language, for being his motivation to learn it.
Read story →Hernán · Medellín
Hernanstein: the nickname he earned
From 1998, hearing "Du Hast" without knowing who they were, to a trip to Mexico in 2022 — how he earned the nickname his friends gave him.
Read story →Melissa · Bogotá
Ich Will at a family gathering
She first heard the band when her sister played «Ich Will» at a family gathering. Years later, she cried hearing «Rammlied» open her first concert.
Read story →Daniel · Medellín
The soundtrack to calculus
In his first years of university, listening to Rammstein helped him focus while studying calculus. He went to the 2010 Sopó concert and is still waiting for a tour that comes back to Latin America.
Read story →Giselle · Cali
The PYRO ticket I never used
In 2010 she had to sell her ticket for the Bogotá show because of a family emergency. She still hasn't seen them live — but that hasn't dimmed the devotion.
Read story →María Fernanda · Bogotá
The broken camera that was worth it
At the 2010 concert her camera got smashed in the crowd, but she managed to sneak further forward — and it's still the best concert she's ever attended.
Read story →Samuel · Bogotá
The confession during Deutschland
A tour poster stumbled upon on a lamppost in Budapest, and a confession during "Deutschland" at MetLife Stadium: two moments he carries close.
Read story →Helena
The party with the band she almost made
She could have been at the party they threw with the band, but she arrived too late to get in. She still regrets it.
Read story →Erika · Cali
The signature on her back that became a tattoo
She discovered them through «Reise, Reise» and ended up coordinating fan meetups in Cali. When the band signed her back in Colombia, she got the signature tattooed.
Read story →Natalia · Medellín
The wristband I didn't believe
A solo trip to Dallas after a breakup ended in an after party with the whole band — and a mezcal handed to her by Till Lindemann.
Read story →Alejandro · Bogotá
The motorcycle that's carried the logo for eight years
He watched «Live aus Berlin» so many times he lost count. He couldn't see them in 2010, but his motorcycle has carried the band's logo for more than eight years.
Read story →Lisette · Bogotá
The postcard she won at a Treffen
She discovered the band in school. She hasn't seen them live yet, but at a club Treffen she won a postcard that brought her even closer to the band.
Read story →Andres · Bogotá
The first meetup in Parque Nacional
Months before the 2010 concert, he went to the community's first meetup in Parque Nacional. Twelve years later he traveled to Mexico to see them twice in the same week.
Read story →José Camilo
The tickets he lost to a denied day off
He bought tickets for the 2010 concert, but his workplace wouldn't give him the day off. He's gone to every local tribute he could since.
Read story →Juan Diego · Bogotá
Lost Highway, a borrowed DVD, and the German he understood without knowing it
At ten, he discovered the band through a David Lynch film. Without knowing a word of German, he understood «Ich Will» anyway.
Read story →Adrian · Bogotá
Eight years old, Du Hast on the radio
He's known them since 1998, when he was eight. He couldn't see them in Colombia for lack of money, but in 2022 he finally saw them in Mexico City.
Read story →Stefania
Eight trips around the world chasing the band
At 21 she saw Rammstein for the first time in Nuremberg, and hasn't stopped since: more than eight times between Europe and Mexico, including a VIP show in Puerto Vallarta.
Read story →Clemencia · Bogotá
Radioactiva, MTV, and a ticket to Mexico
A healthcare professional, she discovered the band in 1998 through Radioactiva. When she couldn't see them in Bogotá, she flew to Mexico — and it was worth every peso.
Read story →Yenny Paola · Bogotá
Rammstein helped me through a very dark time
At 18, the band got her through a difficult stretch. She's followed the community in Colombia ever since.
Read story →Yoy · Cali
Ravenstein: the surname that turned into a band
At fourteen she traveled alone from Cali and sat through forty hours of traffic to reach the 2010 Sopó concert. Today she's recording her own industrial metal album.
Read story →Santiago · Bogotá
Sehnsucht in a stage play
He first heard them in a stage play in 2004. Since then he's seen them live in Bogotá, Paris, Philadelphia, and Odense.
Read story →Daniel Felipe · Bogotá
Treffen XII: singing along with strangers who no longer were
He couldn't see them in 2010, but this year the dream comes true in Dresden. At Treffen XII, celebrating the band's 30th anniversary, he found the energy that pushed him to join the club.
Read story →Mateo · Bogotá
Three years a fan, a trip to Spain
He discovered them in 2021 and got hooked so fast that two years later he was already traveling to Spain to see them live.
Read story →Cristian · Bogotá
A bad-quality Betamax that changed everything
A ninth-grade classmate showed him a concert recorded on Betamax. Rammstein has been part of every chapter of his life since.
Read story →Geraldine · Bogotá
A tattoo that blends Van Gogh with Mein Herz Brennt
She started learning German this year because of the band. She has a tattooed heart inspired by a painting of her own that blends «Mein Herz Brennt» with Van Gogh.
Read story →Simón · Rionegro
A neighbor, a recorded clip, and quarantine
During the 2020 lockdown, he recorded a snippet of whatever was playing in his neighbor's house to find out what band it was. Four years later, he's still waiting to see them live.
Read story →Rafael · Medellín
Twenty years watching them only on YouTube
He's followed the band since the Mutter album, more than twenty years ago, but has never managed to attend a concert. He dreams of a tour that finally reaches Colombia.
Read story →David · Bucaramanga
Twenty people in line, fourteen years of waiting
He camped for two nights in Bogotá for the 2010 concert. Fourteen years later, he'll finally see them outside Colombia.
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