Adieu (Rammstein song)

"Adieu" (French for Farewell) is a song by German industrial metal band Rammstein, released as the fifth single from their eighth studio album Zeit.

Music video
A music video for the song was released on 24 November 2022.

The music video took place in the Palais Garnier and in a studio in Paris, France. It was directed by the German director Specter Berlin, who had already directed Deutschland.

The plot takes place in the future; Rammstein has retired. The record company, Universal Music, has managed to create clones of the band that they keep alive in cryogenic chambers, in a protected room and they bring them out from time to time to exploit them. The real members of the band, who have become religious anarchists, decide to finish with these clones. They attack Universal Music and manage to destroy them by burning them. But when they come out of the chamber, they are killed.

They are then taken to the Last Judgment (the scene where they fly away in a whirlpool). Having committed murders and having lived adulated (pride is a capital sin), they are condemned to end up in hell, and accept their fate by falling into the hole that leads there.

In hell, the punishments are adapted to the sins committed. In their case, they find themselves locked in a cage, beset by damned souls, a metaphor for the time when they were adored and gave concerts. The only way to serve their sentence is to accept that they will no longer be stars in the afterlife. They have no choice but to destroy the giant statues that represent the idols they were. This also destroys the damned souls that represent the fans.