Rammstein
Zeit

We all know what has happened over the past two years, we all (or almost all) know who Rammstein are, and we know that just over a month ago they released a new album.

It's titled "Zeit," which means "Time" in Italian, the time that relentlessly flows and makes us increasingly older and sadder.

And that's how "Zeit" begins, with "Armee der Tristen," where Till Lindemann invites us all to join a march against happiness, all set to a backdrop of martial guitars and electronics where, however, a bitter atmosphere prevails that will continue throughout the album. Yes, because this new work from the Berlin six leaves no room for any light, no joy, and even in seemingly jovial moments like "Dicke Titten" (big tits) with trumpets reminiscent of Oktoberfest, we find a lonely man, plagued by the ailments of age, boredom, and baldness, who settles for a woman with oversized breasts just to avoid remaining in solitude.

In "Zick Zack," musically it's like a "Los" on steroids, but here too the theme of fear of the passage of "time" and becoming old and ugly prevails, and so onto cosmetic surgery to appear "more beautiful, firmer, and stronger," never mind if you turn into a botox-filled monster, and Till with his mocking tone sings: "Tick tock, tick tock, you're getting old, your time is slowly running out."

"Time" remains the common thread throughout the album; the desire to stop time and avoid death in the title track, the current times in "Angst" where the fear of the "bogeyman" is understood as the phobia of fearing everything and everyone to the point of arming ourselves to the teeth to protect ourselves from a nonexistent danger, and the final farewell in "Adieu" where time is up, the music is ending, and you will have to move on and die alone.

More than an album, it's an experience of the miserable human condition in which we all find ourselves. Musically? All good stuff, there are some imperfections, but it all fades into the background.