About P-L.info

An independent fan archive and research blog focused on Paul Landers interviews, image preservation, translations, fan essay compendium, and niche details social media tends to lose forever.

About the fansite

Opened in July 2023 after I stepped away from social media (we all know why that year), and wanted a more stable place to collect and write things properly. It has changed shape several times since the first iterations, but the goal has stayed the same: I wanted to make a small independent fansite that is easy to browse compared to social media's forced chronology, personally written and fan friendly, and useful to people searching for obscure Rammstein things online.

My site mostly focuses on Paul Landers related materials, whom I feel isn't well documented or understood in his career. Some pages are very informational. Some are just fanblog girly nonsense.

Update frequency: Currently, I update the gallery once a month with 20-100 images. As for interviews, I aim for one untranslated text every two or three months. As for fan writings, it's a matter of whimsy and inspiration. Anywhere between once every two to five months.

What you'll find

Interview Archive / Translations

Collected, organized, and linked interviews from old fansites; including older, harder to find material. I do my own translations and curated quotes with original sources linked. I work hard at putting new information or obscure things into English.

Musicianship

Have you ever wanted someone to commentate or explain Paul as a musician and actual guitarist? Got you covered. I'm working hard on this aspect. If there's anything to know about his gear or guitars - I'm your girl.

Photo Gallery

A large Paul focused image archive with 12,000+ organized, tagged, and sorted uploads. I'm the Final Boss of Pinterest's nightmares.

Research & Trivia

Posts about obscure reminiscence, visual stage details, photo lore, excessively cited dates, hyper specific factoids, and other extremely normal interests.

Sources & Citing

This site is an independent fan project. Not an official source and not journalism. I usually act as a secondary source. While I am partly credible, I try to link originals, cite where things came from, and separate informational writing from opinionated posts or sentences as clearly as possible. Please check the original sources I use directly. I firmly engage in source criticism during my research and posting style. My approach is "historian"-like and my output is original research.

If you quote a translation or research post, please credit the original interview source, and link back to my site's relevant page when possible. I do not want my translations or research work reused in journalism or commercial articles without permission. Facebook groups and Instagram posts are okay! ♡

Personal responsibility

I firmly believe in a thing called responsibility on the Internet.

That means:
– if you are angry, close the tab
– if you are having misogynistic thoughts, close the tab
– if you're upset I don't ship, close the tab
– if you're mad I don't like your fave things, close the tab

You can post whatever you like on your blog. Just as I can too. Words on this website do not magically arrive to your screen or mind. You have to stop looking at what upsets you on a daily/weekly basis. You don't need to seek my approval over your posts.

A wise man once said,
screenshot of a Richard Kruspe Instagram caption

If you have any respect for him or the band, you'd understand and act accordingly.

Extra

online fan history

I've been around for over 15 years with various usernames and aliases. As for my era of fandom, I am old enough to remember the "Richard's bunny" joke. Young enough to remember the saucy fruit memes. Old enough to have visited rammimages.com when it existed, but too young to remember rammsteinfan.de. Remember the6, but don't remember the R+ slash mailing list. I visited herzeleid.com when it updated and watched the LIFAD leaks. My favorite old fansite? rammstein-austria.com. When I was younger, I spent my time on Rosenrot.ca and Affenknecht.

likes

Music: System Of A Down, Skinny Puppy / ohGr, Arkona, Nine Inch Nails, Big Black, Orbit Culture, Ministry, Nova Twins, Depeche Mode, DeathbyRomy, Ashnikko, Zheani, Poppy, Scene Queen, Juju, 3TEETH, White Zombie, RevCo, Eisbrecher, The Prodigy, Pendulum / Knife Party, NERO

Enjoys: video encoding/editing, film study, meteorology (childhood dream job), non-fiction books (history, science, memoirs), low stakes RPGs or cozy sims

Rammstein songs: Dalai Lama, Zerstören, Keine Lust, Heirate mich, Rein raus, Spiel mit mir (2023 mix), Wiener Blut, Giftig, Zeig dich, Angst, Führe mich, Halleluja, Weißes Fleisch, Waidmanns Heil, Tier, Hallomann

Implied FAQ (click me)

"How serious are you really?"

photo of my hand showing Paul Landers related tattooa photo of my hand and wrist showing my personal Paul Landers tattoosphotograph of my Tech 21 Fly Rig PL1

Very serious.

"Do you ship–"

Yeah of course. I ship him with myself! Oh wait, is that not what you meant? No, I don't ship anyone. Not my thing but you're free to enjoy whatever you like. When I was young and dumb, I liked him with Schneider and that likely says a lot about my outlook and what year I got into the band. Do I read fic? Almost never. It's not my thing because I don't engage with gay male content for any fandom.

"Your favorite album?"

photo of a meme holding up every Rammstein album as equal and not competitive

"This fansite is too girly. Can you please make it black like every R+ site ever?"

No. If you can't handle a rabbit gif next to a Paul jpg, you're not gonna make it in this cruel world. Give up now I guess.

"What do you look like though?"