LINDEMANN Featuring RAMMSTEIN Frontman, PAIN/HYPOCRISY Mainman: 'Skills In Pills' Formats, Release Date

Warner Bros. has set a June 23 release date for “Skills In Pills”, the debut album from LINDEMANN, the new project featuring vocalist Till Lindemann of German industrial metallers RAMMSTEIN and Swedish producer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, PAIN). The first single from the CD, “Praise Abort”, will arrive on May 29.

“Skills In Pills” will be made available in the following formats:

* Standard Edition (2-panel digipack, 28-page booklet)
* Special Edition (Blu-ray-packaging, 28-page booklet, bonus track “That’s My Heart”)
* Super Deluxe Edition (large-size book, hardcover, 80 pages, telescope-carton, CD+bonus track “That’s My Heart”)
* Vinyl (gatefold sleeve, 28-page booklet, bonus track, includes album-download code)
* Digital

Speaking to U.K.’s Metal Hammer magazine, Tägtgren stated about how his collaboration with Lindemann came about: “It started around 1999 or 2000, after we got to know each other. Till was helping me put vocals on one of my albums, but it never happened because we were so busy all the time. But we kept in contact, and two summers ago, RAMMSTEIN were in Sweden and Till invited me over; we talked a bit before he went on stage, and he said that RAMMSTEIN were going to have a break for two years and we should do something.”

He continued: “I was starting to think of doing another PAIN album, but as soon as Till came in, that’s when I really started to work. I figured I’d just keep on writing. I started triggering his ideas and he started triggering mine. All of a sudden there was no PAIN album!”

Regarding the musical direction of LINDEMANN, Till told Metal Hammer: “It’s a baby between RAMMSTEIN and PAIN — at least, it’s a mix of RAMMSTEIN vocals and PAIN music.

“Peter‘s a real metalhead and I’m into this gothic thing.

“I know a lot of hardcore RAMMSTEIN fans may not like it, because they’ll miss the German language and harsh sounds, but this is a side project and I bring a lot of personality into my half. There’s a lot of different colors to this record.”

Till added that there are plans for LINDEMANN to play some live shows and record a follow-up album, explaining that making the debut CD “was too much fun to just keep as a singular project.”

“Skills In Pills” track listing:

01. Skills In Pills
02. Ladyboy
03. Fat
04. Fish On
05. Children Of The Sun
06. Home Sweet Home
07. Cowboy
08. Golden Shower
09. Yukon
10. Praise Abort
11. That’s My Heart