ALBUM REVIEWS
RAMMSTEIN
Zeit SPINEFARM/UNIVERSAL
Germany’s world-conquering firestarters display a little tenderness
Rammstein clock in for another bout of industrial adventurism
BRYAN ADAMS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC/PRESS
THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC hasn’t given us much to be grateful for, but we might have to thank it for giving us a new Rammstein album. The German megastars did say that the wait between records wouldn’t be as long as the decade between 2009’s Liebe Ist Für Alle Da and 2019’s untitled album. Even so, Zeit arrives hot on the heels of its predecessor. But the trauma of these last couple of years doesn’t appear to have been lost on Rammstein, with much of the record showing these larger-than-life, fire-breathing German superstars in a more contemplative mood, often expressing an acute awareness of the fragility of life and their own mortality.