This has always been an energetic live band and frontman Zak seems to be as crazy as ever while announcing new songs like "Two Steps Away" or "Are You Man Enough".

Being the support-act tonight, it`s obvious that the band chooses to perform a lot of old stuff which we all know like "Biggest & The Best", "Nigger" and the powerful "The Truth".

The sound is very heavy indeed. It`s about time for them to do a clubtour again very soon, we`d love that. Solid and exciting performance!

Rammstein
Then Rammstein. What`s left to write about their `Tanzmetal`? These German guys have become very huge in a short period of time, due to the use of heavy staccato guitars and vocals combined with dance influences.

Tonight is their first show at the HHM and it`s sold out completely (5.000 people), just like their other two gigs on the 4th and 5th. When you go to a Rammstein gig you know what you`ll get: a lot of fireworks, flames and other spectacular showelements.

With "Mein Herz Brennt" and "Links 2,3,4" the start is cool. With military precision, the riffs are thrown in our faces and the crowd reacts very enthusiastic. "Feuer Feuer", "Adios", "Rein Raus" and "Zwitter" are the following tracks and it`s clear that this show is an `easy` one for Rammstein.

They can play almost whatever they want, the people just love it. Other songs they perform are "Sehnsucht", "Mutter", "Weisses Fleisch", "Du Hast", "Engel", "Bück Dich" (with the obligatory `sex performance`), "Asche Zur Asche", "Rammstein", "Ich Will", "You Strip" and "Sonne".

Like always, they let the music do the talking and this is also the only weaker element (yet the most important one, JG) in the very succesful Rammstein-formula. Take away all the fireworks and other distracting stuff and you`ll find out that the songs get pretty dull after a while. I mean: can you listen to an entire Rammstein album in one time?

(Review: Johan Godschalk
Pics: Marcia Gransbergen)