Rammstein are helping promote The Games with a series of athlete videos backed by Ich will…
Fans of sport, medals and staggering athletic performance, good news: the Paralympics start in Tokyo on August 24. To promote Germany’s athletes in the event, Rammstein have soundtracked a series of videos in which competitors from a range of Paralympic sports discuss motivation and the road to becoming a champ.
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Their song Ich will, from 2001’s Mutter, features in the movies, featuring a variety of events, including table-tennis, wheelchair basketball, cycling, wheelchair fencing and long-jump. Check out the trailer below, and head to Rammstein’s YouTube channel to watch them all.
In other Rammstein news, frontman Till Lindemann last week announced the release of a series of increasingly expensive NFTs, with the dearest package boasting a €100,000 (£85,000) price tag, although for that you also get to go to Russia to have dinner with the big man, so there’s that.
Catch Rammstein live at the following dates next year:
May 2022
20 Leipzig Red Bull Arena
21 Leipzig Red Bull Arena
25 Klagenfurt Wörthersee Stadion
30 Zurich Stadion Letzigrund
31 Zurich Stadion Letzigrund
June 2022
4 Berlin Olympiastadion
5 Berlin Olympiastadion
10 Stuttgart Cannstatter Wasen
11 Stuttgart, Cannstatter Wasen
14 Hamburg Volksparkstadion
15 Hamburg Volksparkstadion
18 Düsseldorf Merkur Spiel-Arena
19 Düsseldorf Merkur Spiel-Arena
22 Aarhus Ceres Park
26 Coventry Ricoh Arena
30 Cardiff Principality Stadium
July 2022
4 Nijmegen Goffertpark
8 Lyon Groupama Stadium
9 Lyon Groupama Stadium
12 Turin Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino
16 Warsaw PGE Narodowy
20 Tallinn Song Festival Grounds
24 Oslo Bjerke Travbane
29 Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium
30 Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium
August 2022
3 Ostend Park De Nieuwe Koers
21 Montreal, QC Parc Jean-Drapeau
27 Minneapolis, MN U.S. Bank Stadium
31 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field
September 2022
3 Chicago, IL Soldier Field
6 East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium
9 Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium
17 San Antonio, TX Alamodome
23 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
24 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
October 2022
1 Mexico City, MX Foro Sol
2 Mexico City, MX Foro Sol
4 Mexico City, MX Foro Sol
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