(10.03.2017)

Tokio Hotel are among the most commercially successful musicians from Germany, with up to now 7 million sold Albums. After the departure from the major label Universal, the band is now under contract with the ProSiebenSat.1 subsidiary Starwatch Entertainment. In addition to singer Bill Kaulitz and multi-instrumentalist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schäfer belong to the Tokio Hotel (photo: Lado Alexi).

Through the monsoon – and back on top!

After almost three years of work, Tokio Hotel will return to the spotlight this spring with a completely new sound and new album. I met the four full-blown musicians for the music and recording magazine “Beat” to an astonishing, relaxed and open chat about the production of the “Dream Machine” recorded in Los Angeles and Berlin.

Really, Google? “. I look at my smartphone and distrust the directions in “Maps”. It will be over field roads. And of course it’s raining. “By the monsoon,” I muttered murmur to myself. But actually: At the end of the muddy paths, an old commercial area off Berlin is waiting for me. And in that the studio-ship of Black Box Music, where in addition to a technology rental are also various rehearsals and interview lofts. And a lot of space.

A successful environment for a reboot. And that was urgently needed in the case of Tokio Hotel. The 2014 album “Kings of Suburbia” could no longer build on the rushing successes of its predecessors, a clear musical line could not be identified and the long-standing no longer a reality of a mature band with the previous major label ran out. The fact that Tokio Hotel would once more stick to the ephemeral enthusiasm of a teenager generation now reaching the age of 30 appeared more than uncertain.