I bought the new Rammstein album for 15€. The album itself has no title and the cover just contains a matchstick. Even if it's minimalist, the cover fits the band, since they are well-known for their pyrotechnic which the band performs on concerts.
The track list is as follows:
1. Deutschland [Germany]
2. Radio [radio]
3. Zeig Dich [show yourself]
4. Ausländer [foreigner]
5. #Inappropriate title to name it here.
6. Puppe [doll]
7. Was Ich Liebe [what I love]
8. Diamant [diamond]
9. Weit Weg [far away]
10. Tattoo [tattoo]
11. Hallomann [helloman]
“Deutschland” were published on the 28th march and reached the top of the German charts quickly. It reached over 50 million clicks on YouTube to date. A Single “Deutschland” with this certain track and an additional remix was published at the same time. Their new album got announced, too.
This song was a surprise, because Rammstein published their last new song back in 2009.
The Music video got announced by a short clip one day before, which caused a type of scandal because of the content. It was a clip from the actual video.
The final Music video appeared the day later, and I was able to watch the premiere on YouTube!
I would like to move on to the next track, “Radio”, which got also published on several platforms like YouTube and Spotify just like “Deutschland”. This happened on the 26th April. Even though it got a less good feedback than “Deutschland”, my friends for example don't like this song, it is my absolute favorite out of the whole album! I remember listening to it in an endless loop for hours while doing fanart.
The other tracks were published together with the album. They differ from each other quite a bit. While “Zeig Dich” is very active concerning voice, music and lyrics, “Diamant” is calm. As usual for Rammstein, their Lyrics are very deep and have sense. Even if they are hard sometimes, they have a meaning and it creates a lot of room for interpretation.
At this point I would like to mention that even if Rammstein's songs are controversial sometimes because of their lyrics and music videos, not any of their songs contains something bad like discrimination. In the song “Ausländer”, for example, is nothing mentioned that could be discriminatory to any person, at least in my view. And in “Deutschland”, they also mention bad things about Germany so that it becomes relatively neutral.
A direct example for their good lyrics is “Diamant”. In short, the song is about the love of the lyrical-I. In the refrain, it says:
“Du bist schön wie ein Diamant.”, what means: “You are beautiful as a diamond.”
But at the very end of the song, the Lyrical-I says:
“[Du bist] Wunderschön wie ein Diamant, doch nur ein Stein.”
“[You are] as beautiful as a diamond, but only a stone.”
This phrase was like a plot-twist to me. I mean, diamonds are indeed very beautiful, but they are still only stones, that's also right.
I don't listen much to other metal-bands or “Deutschrock” bands, but as far as I know, Rammstein is a bit extraordinarily. Their kind of singing differs from other bands in my opinion.
This Album got also released as a “Special-Edition”, but the only difference between the “normal” and the “Special” edition is the bigger size of the packing and thus the bigger size of the booklet, but there aren't any extra-tracks or some other bonus material as far as I know.
I listened to this album over 10 times now. This was definitely a very good purchase!
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