Today Rammstein announce the Europe Stadium Tour 2023, coming to you next summer!
LIFAD member ticket pre-sale: 06.09.22 at 10:00 a.m. local time.
General ticket sale: 08.09.22 at 10:00 a.m. local time at https://t.co/9htrxJe4TA!https://t.co/9tPSdma0km

— Rammstein (@RSprachrohr) September 1, 2022

UK fans will have to wait and see if the band has any plans to add any UK dates.  The band last played in the UK earlier this summer, playing the CBS Arena in Coventry  on June 26^th. The show was so loud that it was reportedly heard eleven miles away.

Like many bands, the pandemic halted their touring plans, and the band’s sold-out stadium tour had to be postponed. RAMMSTEIN utilised this extra time to finish their new album. The eleven songs on the new album were written over the course of two years by Till Lindemann (vocals), Paul Landers (guitar), Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar), Flake (keyboards), Oliver Riedel (bass), and Christoph Schneider (drums). Producer Olsen Involtini from Berlin was behind the boards once again and joined the band at La Fabrique Studios in St. Rémy de Provence, France, to produce the album.

Rammstein’s eighth studio album “Zeit” is out today and available to stream in Spatial Audio on @AppleMusic: https://t.co/JNY0GVrIKZ pic.twitter.com/3lJFQK2KTk

— Rammstein (@RSprachrohr) April 29, 2022

In a strange meeting of worlds, the photo of RAMMSTEIN that graces the cover of Zeit was taken by the Canadian musician and photographer, Bryan Adams, on the steps of Berlin’s Trudelturm, a memorial to aerial research located in the city’s Aerodynamic Park.

The legendary metal band are known for their spectacular live performances, that frequently feature sensational pyrotechnic displays. The pyrotechnician for RAMMSTEIN revealed last autumn how much gasoline is required to ignite the band’s fiery stage performance. According to Nikolai Sabottka, who spoke with Ultimate Guitar, RAMMSTEIN’s current stadium setup “needs around 1000 litres [about 265 gallons].”

Sobotka went on to remark that he and the RAMMSTEIN members are constantly looking for new technology that might elevate their ferocious stage performance. He said, “We sit down to discuss all the various concepts before a tour and put what has been produced and prototyped in advance to the test. After the initial test, countless adjustments need to be made. Sometimes these changes are necessary because the effects do not turn out as expected, in which case the effects are returned to research and development while other changes are authorised and are produced on a bigger scale.”

Over the course of a nearly 30-year career, RAMMSTEIN have sold more than 20 million records worldwide. Their stadium tour of North America began on August 21^st in Montreal and will end in Mexico City on October 4^th. Their 2023 European tour dates are below:

05/22/23 – Vingio Parkas – Vilnius – Lithuania
05/27 – Olympiastadion – Helsinki – Finland
05/28 – Olympiastadion Helsinki – Finland
06/02 –  Dyrskueplads Odense – Denmark
06/07 – Olympiastadion Munich – Germany
06/ 08 – Olympiastadion Munich – Germany
06/ 14 – Trenčín Airport Trenčín – Slovakia
06/ 17 – Stadion Wankdorf Bern –  Switzerland
06/18 –  Stadion Wankdorf Bern – Switzerland
06/ 23 –  Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano – Madrid – Spain
06/ 26 – Estádio Da Luz – Lisbon – Portugal
07/ 01 –  Stadio Euganeo – Padova – Italy
07/ 06 –  Stadspark –  Groningen –  Netherlands
07/ 11 –  Puskás Aréna – Budapest – Hungary
07/15 – Olympiastadion – Berlin –  Germany
07/ 16 –  Olympiastadion – Berlin – Germany
07 /22 –  Stade de France – Paris – France
07/ 26 – Ernst-Happel-Stadion – Vienna – Austria
07/ 30 –  Stadion Śląski –  Chorzów –  Poland,
08/04 –  King Baudouin Stadium – Brussels –  Belgium

The exciting new tune has also spawned two remixes: one by Icleandic producer Ólafur Arnolds, and another by German electronic artist Robot Koch. Arnolds’ remix takes the already brooding track and grants it a bittersweet, film-score esque quality, omitting the vocals completely and placing a heavy emphasis on the use of lush, atmospheric strings. Robot Koch’s remix places the vocals at centre stage, and features great synth pads that swirl and howl underneath them, as distant percussion rages on in the background.

According to NME, who attribute the following information to a press release, Rammstein have spent two years working on the eleven songs that comprise their new album, working alongside Berlin-based producer Olsen Involtini. The album was recorded at La Fabrique Studios, located in St. Rémy de Provence, France.

“Zeit” will be released on a plethora of different formats, including a standard digipack CD with a 20-page booklet, a six-panel digipack CD with a 56-page booklet, and a double vinyl LP with a 20-page booklet.

‘Zeit’ album cover, original photo taken by Brian Adams

Rammstein presently consists of vocalist Till Lindemann, guitarists Paul Landers and Richard Z. Kruspe, keyboardist Flake (aka Christian Lorenz), bassist Oliver Riedel and drummer Christoph Schneider. The legendary industrial metal outfit were formed in Berlin back in 1994, and remarkably, have kept a consistent line-up throughout their entire career. The band’s first full-length effort Herzeleid was released in 1995, after they had signed with Motor Music. The album was successful indeed, and the following year saw Rammstein perform on the MTV show Hanging Out in the UK.

The band saw even more international success when Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails selected “Rammstein” and “Heirate mich” for his work as a musical director on the 1997 David Lynch film Lost Highway. The band would embark on their very first US tour on the 5^th of December 1997 alongside fellow industrial rockers KMFDM. Since their formation, the group have maintained a steady musical output, and have remained a relevant and highly revered cornerstone of heavy music.

Beginning on May 22nd next year, in Leipzig, Germany, the band’s upcoming tour will be immense, with months of shows taking them all the way through to August 7th, finishing in Ostend, Belgium. This more than makes up for the heartbreak with which fans were afflicted after the tour-opening show was due to have taken place next week in Klagenfurt, Austria. Happily, for those of us off the European mainland, there are three UK tours to keep our eyes on.

With all that to look forward to, what’s in store for the near-distant future? Well, you’re in luck, because the band of East Berlin metalheads very kindly took to Facebook earlier this year to announce the DVD launch of their infamous Live aus Berlin concert. Though there is currently an excerpt of the concert available online, this new DVD release is set to include, in its entirety, the previously censored performance of Bück Dich, which saw the band members simulate anal sex on-stage using a water-squirting dildo.

Racy stuff, indeed. Though it shouldn’t be too surprising when you translate the song’s title into English: “bend over.” What else could you expect?

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Listed by NME, the tour dates will take place in mid-June, at the following venues:

Friday 12th – Belfast, Boucher Road Playing Fields (rescheduled from June 17, 2020)
Tuesday 16th – Cardiff, Principality Stadium (rescheduled from June 14, 2020)
Friday 19th –  Coventry, Ricoh Arena (rescheduled from June 20, 2020)

Cardiff – #Rammstein kommt!
Tickets available now: https://t.co/9htrxJe4TA pic.twitter.com/mFD9iPxiEm

— Rammstein (@RSprachrohr) July 31, 2019

Despite forming in 1994, this will be the band’s first ever stadium tour and the band’s line up remains as it was 25 years ago. They have been teasing their European tour via clips on their Facebook page since last year and now on their Youtube channel.

Rammstein are best known for their elaborate and expansive live shows, with lead singer Till Lindemann enduring life-long burns after parts of the stage and various props fell on the band during a show, back in 1996.

This hasn’t stopped the six-piece metal group from planning their biggest and most hideously beautiful tour to date, and video clips show fiery angel wings, cauldrons and various members of the group dressed as frenzied psychopaths. It has been described as a “hellish inferno cathedral” and their fans are absolutely ready for it. The band took a hiatus in 2013 and returned for a summer festival tour in 2016, but since then, have been focused on their most recent album, released in May of this year.

Tickets are still available to purchase for all UK dates* and it has been reported that they will be performing well-known hits, such as “Du Hast” and “Sonne”, as well as new material from their most recent album, “Untitled”. The band still have tour dates to unleash on fans and it can be assumed that they will announce these in the coming weeks, as well as more teasers. Fans should be prepared to buckle up and get ready for a most epic performance.

UK DATES ARE:

14/06/2019 – Principality Stadium – Cardiff
17/06 – Boucher Road Playing Fields – Belfast
20/06 – Ricoh Arena – Coventry

The industrial metal icons will also perform in Belfast, at Boucher Playing Fields, on the 17th of June 2020, but the Coventry date marks their only performance, in England, of 2020. Tickets for the Coventry show will go on sale tomorrow, Friday the 12th of July 2019, at 10am, and can be purchased here.