Peter Tägtgren about Lindemann tour: “It was not really my cup of tea so I decided to quit”

It was announced last November that Peter Tägtgren, the Swedish multi-instrumentalista and founder of Hypocrisy and Pain will be parting ways with Lindemann, the band led by Rammstein vocalist Till Lindemann. Peter Tägtgren was a guest recently on a video podcast called I Ask No One where he talked about the last tour Lindemann did before covid-19 pandemic started. Tägtgren said in the interview that despite the tour was very successful ticket selling wise he didn’t really felt the tour his cup of tea and led to him leaving the band. Tägtgren had the following to say about the Lindemann tour:

“It was very successful — definitely. It was not really my cup of tea at all, to be honest. And that’s why we’re not playing anymore together. So he can go on with his stuff; I go on with my stuff. To keep it very simple.”

– Peter Tägtgren

Lindemann‘s second album, “F & M”, was released in November 2019. The follow-up to 2015’s “Skills In Pills” was once again produced and mixed by Tägtgren.

“Skills In Pills” reached gold status in Germany and was entirely in English. On the second opus, Lindemann went back to singing exclusively in German.

Lindemann had received some criticism due to its use of pornography during its second album cycle, with the music video for “Platz Eins” described by one site as “full-on art porn — slick and stylish, weird and experimental, and definitely X-rated.”

Lindemann released a concert film, “Live In Moscow”, in May on Blu-ray. The set included professionally filmed video footage of Lindemann‘s March 15, 2020 performance at Moscow, Russia’s VTB Arena.

You can watch the full interview below: