"Not sure humble El Campín could take it"

My first contact with Rammstein was as a teenager, when “Amerika” was playing on MTV’s weekly Top 10. Over time I got to know the singles as they came out and they grew familiar, to the point of being a band I enjoyed whenever I ran into it on audio or video. Nothing more.

That’s how it went for a long time, until about five years ago, when I stumbled onto one of their concerts on YouTube. It was a revelation: their stage presence, their energy, their irreverence. They were from another world. That’s when I threw myself into listening, and the lyrics and that unique sound won me over. Today they’re one of my essentials — in fact they were my most-played artist on Spotify in 2023.

I love live rock and I have some 25 or 30 concerts behind me. None of theirs. It’s on my short-term plans, if not in Colombia then somewhere around Latin America: I’m not sure humble El Campín could take the sheer brutality of Rammstein’s current staging.