Surprise Rammstein, eh? Well, not exactly surprise Rammstein, is it – they said all the way back in 2020 that they were, against even their best-laid plans, in the studio in France after Covid caused their European stadium tour to halt, but still. You didn’t start this week knowing you’d have the first piece of their eighth album by the end of it. Like the incredible, cinematic video for Deutschland, the opening throw from 2019’s ‘Untitled’ album, Zeit is, predictably what you want from Rammstein but also nothing you could have imagined until they actually serve it to you. Considering the gap between that album and this is more than a third of that dividing ‘Untitled’ and Liebe ist für alle da, Zeit feels every bit as grand, stately and overpowering as Deutschl...
