The PYRO ticket I never used

I discovered Rammstein through a schoolmate when Liebe ist für alle da came out, around 2008-2009, right after graduating high school. “Ich tu dir weh” and “Haifisch” were the songs that marked me; I already listened to punk rock and hard rock, but that sound changed something in how I understood music.

In 2010, when they came to Bogotá, I had a ticket in the PYRO section. A family emergency forced me to sell it. To this day I haven’t been able to see them live, and that December is still a thorn.

I collect shirts, pendants, posters and framed prints related to the band. I’ve spent a year preparing a tattoo — the logo in eagle-shaped lettering — that I want to get done by a tattoo-artist friend who lives abroad. In 2016 my dad traveled to Mexico for work and brought me back a charm he bought outside the Hell and Heaven Fest. I follow Rammstein Colombia’s broadcast group, and musically I consider Till Lindemann’s solo work a chapter of its own: “Yukon,” from the Skills in Pills album, is one of my all-time favorite songs.