After their previous album Reise-Reise being a good 'un I had great expectations for this album but when I got it as a download from legal sources may I add, I was very disappointed.
The album starts off in reasonable form with the track "Benzin" which sounds quite similar to "Mein Teil", but then the second track "Mann Gegen Mann" which is quite heavy is not really that remarkable at all and the next few tracks just seem to be very slow and just troll out the speakers with very little impact. The album improves from track six, but still does not make much of an impression on me. A very big disappointment as their previous albums were of a very high quality.
The above relates to how I felt about this album until recently.
When I was at my friends house, I was watching Scuzz TV and the video for the song "Mann Gegen Mann" came on. I loved the video and the song was swimming around my head and wouldn't pack it's bags and go. When I got back home, I decided to play Rosenrot and loved it (only track 4 seems to be redundant now). It was quite funny, because I felt some of the songs sounded so much like the Sisters Of Mercy and not like Rammstein at all.
Originally, I would have given this album two out of five, but now feel I must change it to three and a half. Not a great album by any means, but not one to be totally ignored either.
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