'Almost done!'

Rammstein have confirmed that work on their long-awaited seventh studio album is ‘almost done’.

The German industrial metal icons have not released an album since 2009’s ‘Liebe ist für alle da’, but now it looks like the wait may at long last be over.

While writing sessions for the record began back in 2015, fans grew hopeful when the band shared images of their return to the studio earlier this year.

Now, they’ve taken to Twitter to confirm that the album is almost complete, as they record orchestra and choir parts for the LP in Minsk.

This comes after guitarist Richard Kruspe told Resurrection Fest last year that he had been “skeptical” to go back into the studio because the band “almost broke up” the last time they made an album.

He also said that this next record could be the last the band make. “That’s a feeling — I can be wrong, but just at the moment, I feel like this is maybe the last [shot at making an album] we have, and I wanna give two hundred percent in that and make it as good as it can be,” he said.

“When I listen to the stuff, there’s so much potential, and I’m very pleased about what we do at the moment.”

The album is rumoured for released in 2019, while the band currently have two live shows on the horizon at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on December 31 and January 2 – where it is hoped that they will debut new material.