German industrial titans Rammstein have been spending their time in coronavirus lockdown cooking up new music.
The band’s drummer, Christoph Schneider, revealed that they were chipping away at new material during an appearance on Rodeo Rodeo podcast on Saturday, June 13th.
During the interview, Schneider was asked what each of the members of Rammstein were doing to keep themselves sane during the pandemic. The drummer revealed that he had recently met up with his bandmates to discuss the idea of working on new music.
“We still have so many ideas lying around, so many unfinished songs,” he revealed.
The host went on to ask whether Rammstein fans could expect an album in the near future, “We have met and we are working on new songs,” Christoph shared. “We want to work on songs. But whether or not it will turn into an album, nobody knows yet.”
Rammstein’s seventh, untitled album was released in May 2019. It marked the band’s first full-length record in a decade, following 2019’s Liebe Ist Für Alle Da.
The metal outfit came under fire upon the release of their untitled record, over the promotional video for the album.
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The video in question featured members of Rammstein noose-bound in the gallows, dressed in uniforms that resemble those worn in World War II concentration camps.
The promotional video was met with a backlash, with the band being accused of trivialising the Holocaust.
“With this video, the band has crossed a line,”shared Charlotte Knobloch, a Holocaust survivor and former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, at the time. “The instrumentalization and trivialization of the Holocaust, as shown in the images, is irresponsible.”
Whilst Felix Klein, the government’s commissioner for anti-semitism, labelled the video “a tasteless exploitation of artistic freedom.”
In other news, back in February, Rammstein frontman released a chaotically horny music video for single ‘Platz Eins’, taken from Lindemann’s 2019 record F & M. The video features a stark-bollock-naked Till Lindemann engaging in full frontal boning.
