From RAMMSTEIN (untitled album) · 2019 · Track 8
Diamant
«Diamond»
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In context
Something beautiful that catches the eye and hurts whoever can't stop looking at it. The tension between admiring and needing to get away.
- Beauty
- Obsession
- Brevity
- Origin
- The eighth track on the 2019 untitled album, recorded in 2018 at Studio La Fabrique (France) with Olsen Involtini producing. It was never a single. On 18 April 2019, almost a month before the album, the band posted a teaser in which only the bass could be heard.
- The German key
- At two and a half minutes it is one of the shortest songs on the album, and the arrangement is just as spare: the song lasts as long as the image does.
- What the band has said
- The band has not commented on the song.
- Live
- A fixture of the 2019 tour: 34 performances.
Our reading
The diamond works as a double image without needing to be explained: what is admired and what cuts are the same object.
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
Beauty that also destroys
The lyric builds the diamond as its central image: something beautiful, desired, that catches the eye — and at the same time hurts whoever can’t look away. It’s a song about obsessive attraction and the tension between admiring something and needing to escape it.
At two and a half minutes, it’s one of the shortest songs on the album. On 18 April 2019, nearly a month before the full record came out, the band uploaded a teaser to its official YouTube channel featuring only the bass line.
Context
Eighth track on the self-titled 2019 album, recorded in 2018 at Studio La Fabrique, France, produced by Olsen Involtini. Released 17 May 2019. It was never a single.
Live
It debuted on 24 May 2019 and stayed in the setlist until 11 May 2022 — 34 performances, considerably longer on stage than “Sex,” the other track from the album that was retired almost immediately.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.