Rammstein Album Banned In Germany For Being ‘Harmful To Children’!
The German authorities come crashing down on Rammstein over their sadomasochistic new album! Get this banned in Germany artwork on the limited-edition Cross Pack copy of the latest issue of Metal Hammer!
As if the hardcore porn video for their track ‘Pussy’ hadn’t got people in a tizzy enough, now the German authorities have taken the album off of the shelves because of ‘Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da’s depictions of sadism/masochism, which have been deemed to be harmful to children and young people.
Petra Meier, the deputy president of the Federal Office for the Examination of Media Harmful to Young People, has acted against the artwork and the track ‘Ich tue Dir Weh’ (which translates as ‘I Want to Hurt You’). The album is rumoured to be being repressed in Germany with new artowrk and minus that track. In true Rammstein style, we’ve also heard that the track will now be issued as a single outside of Germany.
You can, of course, get a huge copy of the artwork that is now banned in Germany by ordering a limited-edition Cross Pack copy of the latest issue of Metal Hammer. Sorry Germany! See the full banned artwork on our Cross pack below!
You can still see the whole, completely uncensored and incredibly hardcore version here. If you’re at work, you might want to check out our blow-by-blow account of what happens in the video here.
Rammstein have also confirmed that they will be headlining Rock Am Ring and are included on our list of potential Download headliners.
Get our track-by-track guide to the new Rammstein album!
Check out our Albums Of The Decade feature on Rammstein’s ‘Mutter’ and revisit Rammstein’s past with our vintage ‘Reise Reise feature.
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If you can’t die to increase album sales, surely getting banned in your own country is the next-best-thing!
how come us loyal subscribers don’t get special cover? and no metal maidens either, if i was emo i’d cry.
LOL so much fail there. rammstein are completely overrated anyways. *waits for flaming*
Only Rammstein could pull that off. Shame ze Germans won’t be getting ‘Ich tu Dir Weh’ though cos that’s probably the best track on the album!
Unless they buy the album from outside of Germany of course: Imports etc. Which let’s face it, most of em probably will! Album sales in Germany wil probably sky rocket!! Either that or illegal downloads will haha
Interesting that shagging and S&M has the potential to corrupt tiny German minds, but the implied cannibalism in the artwork doesn’t. I blame the national interest in sausages.
It is still possible to buy the album in germany. You won’t find it in any shelves on public display, but you can still go to any CD store and go to the counter and ask for it. They will ask for your ID etc to confirm your age being 18+ and thats it. They think it makes it harder for the kiddies to get their hands on the album. But hey they will just download it instead.
For Rammstein its free marketing
It can be harmful to be children if you hit them with it.
censorship is ridiculous, they will all download it anyway, rock on
id hate to be german there so fucking tight on the music they can listen to.
imagen a contry were the best 3 cannibal corpse albems are band ( I dont think there alowd to tour germany eather) and now the ramstian song gets band
James, Cannibal corpse are allowed to tour germany but they can’t play any songs off of the first three albums.
I remember I went to see cannibal Corpse once and the crowd were all chanting “WE’RE NOT GERMANY”
it says atrowrk
The CC ban has been lifted as of 2006; they can now play anything there
Very impressive posting. I enjoyed it.
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