With the start of advance sales for the fan club, the Berlin band Rammstein has announced two additional concerts in Germany for next year's tour. The musicians around singer Till Lindemann want to play once each additionally in Dresden (18.5.) and Gelsenkirchen (29.7.).
The additional concerts were justified on Monday on the social media accounts of Rammstein with the high demand at the presale for the fan club. The general pre-sale for the concerts is scheduled to begin on October 18. The band already has Dresden on May 15 and 16 and Gelsenkirchen on July 26 and 27 on the tour schedule.
For the tour, the controversial Berlin-based band ("Zeit," "Sonne") has set its sights on twelve countries. Kick-off is on May 11 in Prague.
Not on the tour schedule is Rammstein's hometown of Berlin. Frontman Lindemann (60), guitarists Richard Kruspe (56) and Paul Landers (58), bassist Oliver Riedel (52), keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz (56) and drummer Christoph Schneider (57) live in Berlin. Here, the six musicians found together in 1994 and have since developed with their hard sound to the internationally most successful German band.
The tour was overshadowed this year by accusations, especially against Lindemann. Women had described situations on the Internet or in media reports, which they had partly found frightening. Young women were selected during concerts and asked whether they wanted to come to the after-show party. Thereby, according to descriptions of some women, it should also have come to sexual acts.
Lindemann has rejected accusations against him. The public prosecutors in Berlin and Lithuania stopped investigations into the allegations. The evaluation of available evidence had produced no evidence that Lindemann had "performed sexual acts on women against their will," the public prosecutor's office in Berlin announced.
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