Rammstein Have Been Working On New Music In Lockdown

Having pushed back both their UK/Europe and U.S. headline tours to 2021, Rammstein have started filling up their unplanned free time this year by working on new songs.

Though it's not yet known whether this fresh material will become a full album – the follow-up to last year's incredible, 5K-rated Untitled record – it seems as though the band have plenty of music to work on already, with Christoph Schneider saying that the German titans have "so many ideas lying around, so many unfinished songs".

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“Last week, we were supposed to play our first 2020 concert and then we said, ‘Let’s meet and think about what we could do this year,’” the drummer tells Radio Rodeo's The BossHoss show (translated from German to English via Rammstein Belgium).

“We still have so many ideas lying around, so many unfinished songs. We met and we’re working on new songs. We want to work on songs, but whether it’s going to be a new record, nobody knows.”

While fans had to wait a full decade between 2009's Liebe ist für alle da and 2019's Untitled, maybe we won't have another 10-year gap between records this time around? Fingers crossed…

Check out the snippet of Christoph's new interview below:

Catch Rammstein at the following dates in the UK and Europe next year:

May 2021

22 Leipzig, Red Bull Arena Leipzig (rescheduled from May 29, 2020)
23 Leipzig, Red Bull Arena Leipzig (rescheduled from May 30, 2020)
27 Klagenfurt, Wörthersee Stadion (rescheduled from May 25, 2020)
31 Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz Arena (rescheduled from June 2, 2020)

June 2021

1 Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz Arena (rescheduled from June 3, 2020)
5 Berlin, Olympiastadion (rescheduled from July 4, 2020)
6 Berlin, Olympiastadion (rescheduled from July 5, 2020)
12 Belfast, Boucher Road Playing Fields (rescheduled from June 17, 2020)
16 Cardiff, Principality Stadium (rescheduled from June 14, 2020)
19 Coventry, Ricoh Arena (rescheduled from June 20, 2020)
23 Aarhus, Ceres Park (rescheduled from August 4, 2020)
26 Dusseldorf, Merkur Spiel-Arena (rescheduled from June 27, 2020)
27 Dusseldorf, Merkur Spiel-Arena (rescheduled from June 28, 2020)
30 Hamburg, Volksparkstadion (rescheduled from July 1, 2020)

July 2021

1 Hamburg, Volksparkstadion (rescheduled from July 2, 2020)
5 Zurich, Stadion Letzigrund (rescheduled from June 6, 2020)
6 Zurich, Stadion Letzigrund (rescheduled from June 7, 2020)
9 Lyon, Groupama Stadium (rescheduled from July 9, 2020)
10 Lyon, Groupama Stadium (rescheduled from July 10, 2020)
13 Turin, Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino (rescheduled from July 13, 2020)
17 Warsaw, PGE Narodowy (rescheduled from July 17, 2020)
21 Tallinn, Song Festival Grounds (rescheduled from July 21, 2020)
25 Trondheim, Leangen Travbane (rescheduled from July 26 and 27, 2020, previous venue Granåsen)
30 Gothenburg, Ullevi Stadium (rescheduled from July 31, 2020)
31 Gothenburg, Ullevi Stadium (rescheduled from August 1, 2020)

August 2021

3 Nijmegen, Goffertpark (rescheduled from June 24, 2020)
7 Ostend, Park De Nieuwe Koers (rescheduled from June 10, 2020)

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