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Reise, Reise (2004)

Where the lyrics of Reise, Reise take you, and where it was really made.

The album's hidden pregap track holds the last seconds of cockpit audio from Japan Air Lines Flight 123, and the record's theme is built on that crash.

Key places

Where the album was recorded (2004)

Recording site El Cortijo Studios — Recording for the album began in November 2003 at El Cortijo Studio in Spain, with the band and Jacob Hellner producing. The point is placed at Málaga city-center level. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Reise, Reise: fourth studio album by Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein
• Released 27 September 2004 through Universal Music in Germany, followed shortly by a European release
• North American release through Republic Records on 16 November 2004
• Produced by the band together with Swedish record producer Jacob Hellner
• Based on the crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123 on 12 August 1985
• Opening track "Reise, Reise" means "journey, journey" or "rise, rise"
• Four singles: "Mein Teil", "Amerika", "Ohne dich", "Keine Lust"
• Album sold 1.5 million copies globally as of February 2006

Background

• Band initially planned a double album but later scrapped the idea
• Seven songs were left off the final track listing and later released on the follow-up album Rosenrot
• Rosenrot contains six outtakes from Reise, Reise and some new tracks
• The album was originally intended to be titled Reise, Reise, Vol. II

Recording

• Recording began in November 2003 at El Cortijo Studio in Spain
• Mixing sessions took place in April and May 2004 at Toytown Studio in Stockholm, Sweden
• A look behind the scenes of the recording appears on the 2006 live compilation Völkerball

Cover

• Front and back covers show a damaged aeroplane cockpit voice recorder
• The caption means "Flight Recorder, Do Not Open"
• Unlike past albums, the packaging has no photographs of the band members

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band formed in Berlin in 1994.
• Before forming, some members were associated with the punk acts Feeling B and First Arsch.
• The band won a Berlin amateur contest in 1994 with a 4-track demo, which earned them a week in a professional studio.
• The band was first called Tempelprayers; the name Rammstein came from an early song about the 1988 Ramstein air show disaster.
• The band was signed by Motor Music and recorded its debut album Herzeleid in 1995 with producer Jacob Hellner.

Members

• Lineup: Till Lindemann (vocals), Richard Kruspe (lead guitar), Paul Landers (rhythm guitar), Oliver Riedel (bass), Christoph Schneider (drums), Christian "Flake" Lorenz (keyboards).
• The lineup has remained unchanged throughout the band's history.
• Lindemann writes and sings the lyrics over instrumental pieces the rest of the band completes beforehand.

Career

• Sehnsucht (1997) debuted at No. 1 in Germany and led to a worldwide tour lasting nearly four years.
• After signing with Universal Music, the band released Mutter (2001) and Reise, Reise (2004).
• Liebe ist für alle da (2009) was placed on the German Federal Review Board's index over the song "Ich tu dir weh".
• The untitled seventh album (2019) reached No. 1 in 14 countries; the eighth album Zeit was released in April 2022.
• The band is considered the most successful German-language band of all time.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Album received generally positive reviews from critics on release
• AllMusic (David Jeffries): three out of five stars
• Jeffries wrote that the content "is more of the same" and that "Amerika" almost equals the band's breakthrough track
• Jeffries noted a bit more ingenuity in production and a little more focus in the songs
• BBC (Vaz Malik): mixed review, saying the band could be "a lot bigger" in the United States if they sang in English
• PopMatters (Tim O'Neil): favorable review

Records

• Debuted at number 61 on the Billboard 200 with 26,716 copies sold in its first week in November 2004
• Top ten in several European charts
• Reached number one in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Estonia and Mexico
• Shipped 1.5 million copies globally as of February 2006

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The 2004 CD pressings hid a pregap track, "Flugzeuglärm" ("Airplane Noise"), with the last seconds of cockpit voice recorder audio from the crash.
• Some pressings of the album contain a recording of the last 30 seconds of the flight as an easter egg hidden in the pregap.
• The song "Mein Teil" was about Armin Meiwes, and the media dubbed it the "Kannibalensong" (cannibal song).
• Remixes of "Mein Teil" were done by Arthur Baker and the Pet Shop Boys.
• A special Japanese version released on 21 April 2005 had different cover art, which was later used as the Rosenrot cover art.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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