Richard Z. Kruspe has a thirst for fire. You can see it coming from every corner of the stage when he’s performing in Rammstein, and depending on how close you are to the front, you can probably feel it, too. You can even hear it in his riffs, which often sound like they were born inside a blast furnace, where the rhythmic clangs of machinery orchestrate the production of the toughest metal on earth.
Pick any song out of the band’s sizeable discography – from Tier, Du Riechst So Gut, Asche Zu Asche and Engel to Links 2 3 4, Rammlied, Hilf Mir and Ich Tu Dir Weh – and it’s easy to see how he’s turned the sounds of a working factory into some of the biggest industrial metal anthems of the modern age.
