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Have a (Slightly Disturbing) Rammstein Holiday!

by Gregory S. Burkart, Tue., Dec. 16, 2008 11:54 AM PST
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Per their fan newsletter today, German industrial-metal overlords Rammstein, who we last found hard at work on their still-untitled 2009 album, have posted special offers on all the holiday goodies available in their online shop for all the head-banging pyromaniacs on your list.

The usual swag like shirts, hats, belts and whatnot is obviously available, but there’s some other unique items like the official “Mein Teil” flambé burner – which in light of that particular song’s cannibal theme is really sick, but that’s how these boys roll – “for everything that has to be flambéed for Christmas.”

The really cool news, however, is that anyone who purchases from their store in December will be entered automatically in a raffle to win one of three pieces of Rammstein gear, all used and abused by the band members themselves: the microphone hefted by burly vocalist Till Lindemann; one of “Flake” Lorenz’s stage keyboards from the band’s Mutter tour; and the jet-black guitar which shielded the private parts of a completely naked Paul Landers in the unsettling “Mann Gegen Mann” video. Now that’s what I call a personal gift.

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