Rammstein's new Album

[Maya]

Eyjafjallajökull Moved to convers

https://affenknecht.com/forum/forum/...8-covers/page4

[Maya]

Yesterday Rammstein published Auslander's photo book, with unpublished photos by Jens Koch and text by Flake.

https://shop.rammstein.de/en/catalog/whats-new/rammstein-photo-book-auslander.html

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[The Rose]

I almost thought they are making new album... Or maybe they are?

I think most we can hope for at the moment is the "leftovers" from the matchstik album

[Vallor]

Rammstein - Making Of Album-Photosession (Official)

I almost thought they are making new album... Or maybe they are?

[Ramm91]

Great video. I honestly have no idea how they didn't use some of those other photos for the promotion. I was wondering what that video of them holding hands singing to a hockey (I think) team was all about. Looked like a video shoot at the time but now it makes sense. I LOVE that photo with the waves as well as the one similar to the video's thumbnail. Also nice to see the band having a good time

[Maya]

Rammstein - Making Of Album-Photosession (Official)

[Waidmann]

It only occurs to me now that Flake already during their MIG summer tour in 2013 said that coming up with album titles was a very hard ordeal for the band, and that he would love for them to just release a nameless record. Well, there you have it.

[Maya]

According to official yearly German chart figures published by the GfK, Rammstein's 2019 release is the most successful album of the year. The untitled album sold 260,000 in its first week and went to #1 in 14 countries.



Source: https://www.rammstein.de/en/the-most...album-of-2019/

[Waidmann]

On the site of Dark Music is read an interesting view (in german) on the artwork. He sees it as a tabula rasa, a back to the beginning, a new begin (like Richard also said it feels like), with the space and the unused match. Even the title is not there.
At another place (I think it was Metal Hammer) Richard said they wanted to show a lightness, through the element "air", after they used the other elements so often in their previous music.

In my review I actually agreed to this. It sounds new. The heavy darkness from Rosenrot and LIFAD is gone, this sounds way more positive and light. Although Was ich Liebe and Hallomann still hold elements from this period.

[Waidmann]

^Nice bit, but I hope we are going to see more actual interviews with the band members. Now we just saw them in action and reacting to quick questions.

[Maya]

[Waidmann]

^I'm not sure it's meant to be more than an artistic representation of the song number.

[Wolfie138]

has anyone worked out any meaning to the match patterns in the booklet?

[Waidmann]

Well, the thing is that they didn't really take a creative break at all. Till, Flake and Richard spent their creativity on solo projects.

I guess there will always be discussion when a band keeps their fans waiting for a new record for a very long time. We've seen it with Guns N' Roses, Metallica and now we see it with Rammstein. A great deal of the audience expects a result that equals some of their best work; the long waiting has to be a bargain for top-knotch-quality. The downside is that many people - unlike Snake, I have to admit - would never ever recognize or accept long awaited material to be as good as what they expect. The frustration of long waiting is seldomly washed away by the reception of the new product.
A band can do what they want. Raised expectations is something they may but don't have to respect. Definitely if it's not even their own fault - which is often the case.

Regarding the title and the artwork... Not sure what they want to pull off. I like the atypical artwork actually, but this simplicity, combined with the absence of a title puzzles me. Is one of the reasons merely because they couldn't chose for any of the songs to be the title track?
If I listen to the record, I would chose as an album title "Was ich liebe" or "Weit weg". But the first one would be weird because it has "Liebe" in it again, like the last one, and "Weit weg" would be weird because they chose not to perform it live. They couldn't have called it "Deutschland" I guess, because that would wildly stear the album reception in some political directions (the same for "Ausländer")... "Puppe" would just not do it, as well as "Sex", which doens't need much explanation... Maybe they should've called it "Radio"?

I hope we get some making ofs again that explain more why they did what they did.

[Snake]

^Exactly. I am perfectly aware that the production time for UNTITLED was the same as other albums such as mutter, reise reise, or lifad. But since they took a long creative break between 2009 and 2015, I was expecting that they would go into that 2-3 year-long production period having much better ideas than they ultimately delivered. Once we take that int oconsideration, I think that UNTITLED should have been substantially better than what it is, even if its production time was about the same as other albuns.