Rammstein helped me through a very dark time

I first heard them in 2001 — I saw the “Sonne” video at eleven — but it was in 2008, at eighteen, that Rammstein helped me heal and get through a very dark period. The band gave me a determination I didn’t know I had. I’ve followed Rammstein Colombia’s posts ever since, from 2010 onward.

I saw them at the Bogotá show on December 3, 2010, in the PYRO section, amid shoving and mud. I lost my phone in the mud that night and didn’t care: I’d just watched the most spectacular show of my life. I haven’t traveled abroad to see them, but if I picked a destination, it’d be North America or Europe.

I still have two DVDs (Live Aus Berlin and Völkerball) a friend gave me in 2008, the shirt I wore to the concert, and the PYRO ticket. I want to tattoo a line from “Zeit”: Ein jeder kennt den perfekten Moment. My top three albums are Zeit (2022), Live Aus Berlin (1999), and Mutter (2001) — and I show up, for a few seconds, in a video of that concert someone recorded and uploaded to YouTube.