5-Track Demo

The 5-Track Demo is the first and only demo tape made by Falco Richter for Rammstein. There was only one copy in cassette-form ever made (some DATs were issued around the same time, but they did not possess the same supernatural properties as the main cassette).

The tapes were created at Greifswalderstraße, Berlin, the headquarters of Falco Richter at the time, and also the then-location of Knaack Club. Emanuel Fialik later seized Knaack after forcing Falco Richter to commit suicide.

The tape inlay itself was made using the blood of a hundred sacrificed virgins, a paste of bonemeal and crushed ants, and an ancient Egyptian papyrus. The artwork features the Rammstein logo in Nordic Runes - it was later revealed that Falco Richter's species, the Kathfar spoke natively in a language where Nordic Runes represented their entire language.

The cassette was made with paranormal properties which were meant to negate the effects of Emanuel Fialik's hypnosis. The paranormal properties evidently were not effective against Fialik, who later lead Richter to suicide, and released the 6-Track Demo 2.

Connection to Humanity
On April 30th, 1994, the 5-Track Demo was given to a radio host for the DT64 radio station. This radio host played the song 'Jeder lacht' on the radio from the tape, but too few people were around to hear it, so it was never recorded, making it extremely rare in the years to come. Jeder lacht, being recorded under Falco Richter's management, would have the power to negate Emanuel Fialik's hypnosis if heard by too many people.

Sometime in 2019, Jeder lacht, along with the rest of the tracklist, was leaked in its entirety to YouTube, in an event known as the Jeder lacht leak of 2019.

Tracklist
Das alte Lied

Weisses Fleisch

Der Seemann

Rammstein

Jeder lacht