The album contains cuts from the band's live performances at the Dortmunder Westfalenhalle on 24 and 25 November 2016 during their Memento tour.

The cover is mostly blue and shows the band's guitarist Matthias Röhr, leaning forward, standing in the spotlight.

[2] The band plays in top form, he says, especially Kevin Russell, whose vocals prove that he has recovered fully health- and voicewise.

But he was missing the songs "Der Junge mit dem Schwefelholz" and "Nach allen Regeln der Sucht" from the new studio album Memento, while he identifies the ballads "Wieder mal nen Tag verschenkt" and "Wo auch immer wir stehen" as the weaker songs.

Live in Dortmund II entered the German albums chart on 2 June 2017 on no.