Ripple News - Rammstein New Album/ Tour Coming Soon

Rammstein, the Berlin-based industrial metal sextet well known for their controversial and fiery live performances, returns with their first new album in four years, having signed a marketing and distribution deal in the US with Vagrant Records.

The 11-song album, Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da, is slated for a late fall 2009 simultaneous worldwide launch with more details to be announced shortly. Pre-production for the new release was done at Castle Beerenstedt in eastern Germany’s Halle/Saale while the bulk of the recording was done in late 2008 at Northern California’s Sonoma Mountain Studio. As with the band’s previous releases, the new album was mixed and mastered by Jacob Hellner in Stockholm.

Rammstein has sold nearly three million records in the US and over 14 million albums worldwide, and let me tell you, the Ripple was one of em. For those of you who haven't heard it, Sehnsucht is one massive attack of brilliant industrial metal.

Rammstein first stormed American shores in 1998 touring behind their Grammy-nominated breakthrough sophomore release, Sehnsucht. Band members were jailed in the US on indecency charges during the 1998 Family Values tour, due to Rammstein’s highly provocative live show.

The band’s last tour through the US was in 2001 in support of Mutter, and as they continued to sonically and visually explore societal and sexual taboos, Rammstein has found themselves embroiled in further controversies both here and abroad throughout the last decade.

Rammstein retains an aura of mystery due in part to their ambiguous lyrics (sung almost entirely in German) while their chart-topping releases and sold-out worldwide tours prove that fans can’t get enough of this enigmatic group.

Commenting on the themes addressed in LIEBE IST FÜR ALLE DA drummer Christoph Schneider said, “The overriding theme, I would say, is extreme forms of love…” Rammstein keyboard player, Flake Lorenz added, “Love can be interpreted in many different ways; for example, sometimes unreciprocated love can lead to tragic situations – mass murders, school shootings, terrible events like that. Hate is the negative form of love, like hot and cold…”

Continuing the Berlin band’s tradition of creating 11-song albums, the track listing for LIEBE IST FÜR ALLE DA is:


1. Rammlied

2. Ich Tu Dir Weh

3. Waidmanns Heil

4. Haifisch

5. B********

6. Frühling in Paris

7. Wiener Blut

8. Pussy

9. Liebe ist Für Alle Da

10. Mehr

11. Roter Sand


As previously announced, the first single is “Pussy” with B-side “Rammlied.” The single will be available exclusively via iTunes on Sept. 22. An accompanying video, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, has been completed and will premiere at www.visit-x.net/rammstein on Oct. 16 at 4 pm eastern/1 pm pacific.

www.rammstein.com

http://www.myspace.com/rammstein

www.vagrant.com