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Date: June 17, 2004
Title: Examining the Rammstein Album - the Group is Coming to Finland?
Source: Soneraplaza, Kaista
Translation: English translated from Finnish by
Aisling
Press Article
A new, not yet named, album will be released by the German metal men Rammstein on September 20. The band's fourth studio album is preceded by the single Mein Teil, that appears in the store shelves in the beginning of July. The second single that will be released later, is named America (translator's notice: Amerika?), in which refrain "we are living in America" is sung. Yes, really, in English...
- The Mein Teil single is a bit delayed for example because of the prolonged mixing. Mein Teil was supposed to be released already in the middle of June, the Rammstein singer Till Lindemann told Kaista (translator's notice: the entertainment part of the site).
Lindemann and the Rammstein keyboarder Christian "Flake" Lorenz made a promo visit in Finland due to the release of their new album. The management of the German band also brought along 9 songs for listening from the long awaited Rammstein album. The band recorded 13 songs last winter during their studio session in Spain.
- Making the new album was hard, since we didn't have any song ready waiting on the shelf. To make them took over half a year. On the coming disc many international phrases are also used and the finishing of them took a long time, says Lindemman alluding to the fact that some sayings, lines, in the songs are not only in German, but also in English, French and Russian.
In the following some things noticed about the songs... The basic style of Rammstein has of course stayed the same. The upcoming album do throw new things to wonder about in the faces of the Rammstein fans. The guitar sound offers knock out feelings like before, but some small changes have also happened in the playing style of Richard Z. Kruspe-Bernstein and Paul Landers. The killer riffs are not so extremely simple and don't bury everything else under them any longer. There are clearly more variation and rhythmical things in the new riffs compared to Rammstein's earlier albums. In places bands like Korn (especially the ripe bass sounds). Metallica's St. Anger (for example in the rhythm of the riffs) and even Slipknot (there are consequently not awaited "messed up" guitar parts) comes to mind. The band and the producer Jacob Hellner have also found new ideas when it comes to the arrangement. The, for Rammstein, so well known killer guitar riffs don't necessarily start at that point, where the hit against the face is awaited.
The upcoming album isn't also filled just with incredible mayhem. There are a few clearly slower songs, where you hear for example acoustic guitars. Of course Rammstein has had slower songs earlier as well, but the slowest pieces on the upcoming album are very drowsy. The songs on the album are also not that fast. The name giving song from the album before this, the massive Mutter, comes to mind when listening to many of the songs from the new disc.
The keyboard is again strongly there in the music, but maybe in a bit different role than before. With the keyboard they have this time created some extremely impressive, sacred grand sounds, from which for example Dimmu Borgir in their most symphonic moments comes to mind. While listening to the album a sacred feeling actually comes to one's mind in many places. Like Till is preaching his dreary message in front of a congregation...
Rammstein's debut album Herzeleid was released in 1995 and since that Rammstein's reputation has spread and grown also outside of Europe. Besides the metal fans, movie fans also found the band when director David Lynch used a few of the band's songs in his film Lost Highway in 1997. The Berlin based sextet had their international breakthrough with their in 2001 released album Mutter.
Rammstein will most probably arrive in Finland for a concert later this year.
- We start touring in Germany in the autumn. From our home country the tour will spread to different parts of Europe and we will certainly arrive in Finland after the concerts in the Baltic States, Till Lindemann predicts.