Rosenrot
Studio album · Released · October 28, 2005
Rosenrot was born from the Reise, Reise sessions: they are, largely, sister songs. It brings “Benzin”, “Mann gegen Mann” and the duet “Te quiero puta!”, sung entirely in Spanish — the band’s first direct nod to the Spanish-speaking audience.
Although it’s sometimes treated as a “secondary” record, it contains some of the songs most loved by Latin American fans, precisely because of that move toward Spanish and Latin aesthetics in its iconography.
Recording
It was recorded at El Cortijo Studio in Málaga and at Teldex Studio in Berlin, again with Jacob Hellner as producer. Part of the material comes from the Reise, Reise sessions, and the record’s working title was “Reise, Reise Vol. 2”.
It reached number 1 in Germany and is triple platinum there, for 600,000 copies.
It has two guest vocalists: Sharleen Spiteri on “Stirb nicht vor mir (Don’t Die Before I Do)” and Carmen Zapata on “Te quiero puta!”.