Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann and Hypocrisy / Pain mastermind Peter Tägtgren’s new side-project, Lindemann, released their debut album, Skills In Pills, in June via Warner Music. 

UG: There was some strong imagery in the "Praise Abort" video which is warranted because there is a lot of strong imagery in the music as well. 

Peter: "Yeah we just shuffle modes and feelings into the songs. We are not afraid to go outside of our comfort zone. So we try different things and if it works, cool, if it sounds like shit, we don't care. We just throw in anything that makes our dicks hard, you know. Maybe some people get pissed or whatever but we shuffle the cards and see whatever comes out comes out as long as we have a good gut feeling about it."

UG: The biggest distinction about this album was Till singing in English. Till, how was that process for you?

Till: "Yeah it was kind of challenging for me. I never really did it before, like for a whole record. So I did the first song and put it on the Internet for Peter to get some feedback and his opinion. Then we decided to do one more and see what happens. In the end I really felt more self-confident about writing everything in English. I got a lot of help from English speaking people and even Perter encouraged me a lot because he had been in English for 20 years already. For me, the problem was I grew up in East Germany so we never spoke English in school besides translating Sex Pistols songs and stuff like that. So it was really hard in the beginning. Actually I learned a lot on our American tours with Rammstein when we played with Slipknot and Korn and Limp Bizkit in the '90s. That was my speech school, kind of."

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Lindemann recently uploaded behind-the-scenes footage from their "Praise Abort" video shoot. The official video can also be seen below.

To read BraveWords scribe Carl Begai's Lindemann feature, click here.