New album drops Apr 29th
Rammstein’s new album Zeit will be released on April 29th. Exactly three years after their untitled multi-platinum album, one of the most globally successful German bands of all time is releasing a follow-up. The first single is the title track, a powerful ballad that builds to a towering epic. A video, directed by actor and musician Robert Gwisdek, is available now.
Rumors have been buzzing around about the project. The eighth album from the Berlin musicians follows the untitled No. 1 album that shot the band straight to the top of 14 international charts in 2019, after the longest break between albums of their career to date.
Till Lindemann (vocals), Paul Landers (guitar), Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar), Flake (keyboards), Oliver Riedel (bass) and Christoph Schneider (drums) spent two years working on the 11 songs on the new album. They were once again assisted by Berlin producer Olsen Involtini. Zeit was recorded at La Fabrique Studios in St. Rémy de Provence, France.
Bryan Adams managed to get a special scoop for the cover of the new album – the Canadian musician and photographer took the shot of Rammstein on the steps of the Trudelturm in Berlin Adlershof, an imposing monument to aerial research in the city’s Aerodynamic Park.
The eponymous first single is available as a 10-inch gatefold black vinyl, on CD digipack and in digital format via the band’s webstore.
Till Lindemann’s commanding baritone resonates over solemn piano chords and an angelic chorus of sirens. The song deals with transience, our mortality and the precious, fleeting happiness of the perfect moment. “Time, please stand still, stand still,” Lindemann laments and implores. “Time, this should always go on so/Time, it’s so beautiful, so beautiful/Anyone knows the perfect moment.”
For the B-sides, the band is releasing a meditative, atmospheric neoclassical arrangement by Grammy-nominated Icelandic multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Arnalds, as well as a remix by electro producer Robot Koch.
The new album will be released as a standard CD in a digipack with a 20-page booklet, a special edition CD in a six-panel digipack with a 56-page booklet including slipcase, and as a double 180-gram vinyl LP with a 20-page large-format booklet, as well as in the usual digital formats.
The band will also be hitting the road for a major European and North American this spring.
