Rammstein is German for "Ramming Stone". This is what Till has to say about where they got their name (Taken from an MTV interview):
"The name came from the big catastrophe that happened in Ramstein, which is a place in Germany, where the American airforce had a flight show. They crashed and over 80 people got hurt and killed. So the first song, actually, was about that accident. And then there was always like a cause when they'd say: �Ramstein, Ramstein!� So it came into our head and it stayed there. We just changed the spelling slightly because Ramstein is actually spelt with one �m�. It also became somewhat of a provocation, by just repeating it, it kind of became like a symbol for us, an anthem." |
