Zeit

Zeit (“time”) is the eighth studio album, released just three years after the previous one — an unusual pace for the band. The title track is one of the most mature ballads of their career, a meditation on the passing of time and the impossible wish to stop it.

With “Zeit”, “Zick Zack” and “Angst”, the album proves that, almost three decades after Herzeleid, Rammstein still owns its own sound and its own time. It’s proof that the archive keeps growing.

Recording

It was recorded at La Fabrique, the same French studio as the previous album, and Olsen Involtini produced again. Recording began in 2020. The album wasn’t planned: it happened because the COVID-19 pandemic forced the tour to be postponed. Flake Lorenz put it this way: not being able to play live increased the band’s creativity.

It reached number 1 in Germany, where it stayed for three weeks, and is double platinum there, for 400,000 copies.

The cover photo is by the Canadian musician and photographer Bryan Adams. It shows the band walking down the stairs of the Trudelturm, a 1934 tower in Adlershof, Berlin.