Think of Rammstein and the first thing that springs to mind is Teutonic Iron Man Till Lindemann shooting flames and strange bodily fluids from various orifices, while a gang of poker-faced Germans crunch out weapons-grade industrial metal behind him as a futuristic Ruhr Valley power plant explodes into the night sky.
Someone has to hold this circus together, and that someone is drummer Christoph ‘Doom’ Schneider, whose often overlooked and vastly under-rated powerhouse rhythms are the engine that drives this armour-plated behemoth. But how much do we actually know about this enigmatic man at the back? Not much. Which is why we sat him down to look back over a career that has taken him from behind the old Iron Curtain to the world.
Rammstein’s Christoph ‘Doom’ Schneider: My Life Story | Louder (loudersound.com)
Aхтунг! Шпиёны в банде!
И даже если это правда, то я и не удивлюсь.
We try to please everybody in the band: we try to respect what everybody wants. If you ignore one guy’s opinions for long enough, one day that guy might leave because he wouldn’t feel understood.”