release date: Sep. 27, 2004
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,32]
pro. by Jacob Hellner, Rammstein
label: Motor Music - nationality: Germany
Track highlights: 1. "Reise, Reise" - 2. "Mein Teil" - 4. "Keine Lust" - 6. "Amerika" (4 / 5) - 7. "Moskau" - 8. "Morgenstern" - 10. "Ohne dich"
[ The making of 'Keine Lust' ]
4th studio album by Rammstein is like the two previous albums produced by the band in collaboration with Jacob Hellner, and it's the band's last studio album on Motor Music. It follows the band's so far most successful album Mutter after a 3½ years hiatus.
Reise, Reise contains the much viewed video single "Amerika", which is a great tune and with both "Keine Lust" and fine songs like "Mein Teil" and "Moskau", Rammstein has made another solid release, although, the album lacks compositions on the same level as their great Mutter, and what is more important: for the first time I find that the band doesn't deliver truly new material but in way keeps to repeating itself. The tight and confined Rammstein universe doesn't leave room for much new if the band doesn't progress. At least they may try, but the new elements are like drawn on either themselves or other metal bands. I find several traces of the American alt. metal band System of a Down, e.g. "Morgenstern", and the album really doesn't come near the strong 2001 album. It's not great, not bad, and not really unforgettable.
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone, BBC 3 / 5 stars ]
