Zeit

Sound DNA

• Electronic
• Industrial

• heavy
• menacing
• theatrical

About

“Belly fat in the bio bin/The penis now sees the sun again.” This soon-to-be-immortal couplet comes from “Zick Zack,” the hilarious plastic-surgery send-up and single from <i>Zeit</i>. Given the decade-long gap between Rammstein’s untitled 2019 album and its predecessor <i>Liebe ist für alle da</i>, the relatively quick appearance of their eighth record comes as quite a surprise. Clearly, the German industrial overlords took advantage of the enforced downtime every touring artist was saddled with during pandemic lockdown and emerged with their famous sense of humor intact. <i>Zeit</i> (German for “time”) boasts plaintive yet soaring piano ballads (“Schwarz,” the title track), odes to big boobs (“Dicke Titten”), and even a raucous cock-rock-style banger in “OK.”

via Apple Music

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