After seven weeks of intensive work in the studio, German industrial metallers
RAMMSTEIN completed the first part of the recording sessions for their new album on December 21, 2008. Drums, guitar, bass and some of the vocal tracks were laid down before the
RAMMSTEIN bandmembers and producers took off for the holidays. Work on the CD will resume in early 2009 for a tentative fall release.
Video footage of
Christoph Schneider from
RAMMSTEIN laying down tracks for the group's new CD last month at a studio in Los Angeles can be viewed below.
RAMMSTEIN recorded the initial tracks for the new album in Los Angeles with
Jacob Hellner and the production team of
Ulf Kruckenberg and
Florian Ammon. A studio was rented near San Francisco for the bulk of the main recording work.
RAMMSTEIN's
"Völkerball" DVD was released in North America in September 2007. The disc features performances from France, England, Japan and Russia. The DVD was released in three different formats. The standard two-disc DVD/CD package contains a 140-minute live video and 75-minute live CD. The special-edition package also includes a tour documentary and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of
"Reise, Reise". Finally, the limited collectors' edition contains four discs packaged in a 190-page book with photos from the tour.
RAMMSTEIN's last album,
"Rosenrot", received its long-overdue U.S. release in March 2006 via
Universal Music. The CD, which was certified platinum in Germany for sales in excess of 200,000 copies within two weeks of release in October 2005, topped the official album chart in Germany, Austria and Finland, and landed at No. 2 in Sweden and Denmark, No. 4 in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, No. 5 in France, No. 6 in Mexico, No. 11 in Italy and No. 29 in the U.K. In addition,
"Rosenrot" achieved gold status in Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.
(Thanks:
BlackGeezer)
