RAMMSTEIN

Rammstein are playing arenas? Really?! Yeah, we're kinda baffled by this too. Fans outside the continental U.S. have long witnessed the Berlin group’s soccer stadium spectacles and are quick to throw up the ubiquitous devil horns along with the rallying cry of “Rammstein über alles!” (“above all else!”). But our mid-level venues that served the band in the past can’t hold Rammstein’s literally incendiary live shows anymore. The U.S. leg of their Made in Germany 1995–2011 greatest-hits tour seems like a throne grab: With Nine Inch Nails in semi-retirement, no one else represents industrial music in such grand and accessible ways quite like Till Lindemann and his krauthammers. Will these string of shows boggle our minds and assault our senses? Most definitely. Will they have much impact on how the band is perceived in the U.S. in the future? Who knows. Either way, this week's concert at the Q (yes, the Q!) will shake your fillings loose and fulfill your pyrotechnics quota for the next year or two. 8 p.m. Tickets: $39.50-$82.50. – Peter Chakerian