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Rammstein have announced their new album, 'Zeit'
Following three years after their untitled album, their eighth full-length is set for release on 29th April, preceded by the title track.
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A girl sees a wild rose growing high on a mountainside and asks her lover to climb and fetch it for her. He does, driven by desire, but as he descends the stone beneath his boot gives way. Both fall into the depths below. 'Rosenrot' unfolds this dark fairy tale with the methodical precision Rammstein brings to narrative, each verse a step closer to catastrophe, each chorus a refrain that hardens into inevitability. The song draws on the German folk tradition, its language formal and archaic, its moral blunt: desire exacts a price, and what a woman wants, she gets, even if it kills them both. The production sits somewhere between industrial metal and orchestral menace. Repetition becomes the engine; the chorus "Tiefe Brunnen muss man graben, wenn man klares Wasser will" (deep wells must be dug if one wants clear water) returns like a warning no one heeds, paired with the title phrase as a kind of dark incantation. Beneath the lyrics runs a current of sexual coercion and fatal compliance, the rose a stand-in for appetite itself, beautiful and poisonous.
"Rosenrot" is a single by Rammstein, from the album Rosenrot, released 26th October 2005. The track is 3:55 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Rammstein.
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