Knorkator is a German band from Berlin that combines heavy metal with comical elements. They proclaim themselves to be "Germany's most band in the world", as the title "The best band in the world" was already taken by Die Ärzte. The name Knorkator is a personification of knorke, a dated adjective used in Berlin and the Ruhr basin meaning "great" or "fabulous". The band was founded in 1994, but only played in the Berlin/Brandenburg area until 1998.
Tocotronic is a German rock band formed in 1993. Similar to Blumfeld or Die Sterne they are considered a part of the Hamburger Schule movement. They are influential for bands such as Wir sind Helden.
Xmal Deutschland, often written as X-Mal Deutschland, was a German gothic rock band. Founded in 1980 with a completely female line-up, they had chart success both in and outside their native country. Their last album was released in 1989.
Böhse Onkelz, sensational spelling of böse Onkels is a German rock band formed in Frankfurt in 1980. The band reunited in 2014. Despite mass-media criticism concerning their past as skinheads, several of their later records topped the German album charts. E.I.N.S. was their most successful album, with over 510,000 copies sold.
Münchener Freiheit is a German pop and rock band that had released nineteen studio albums by 2016, four of which have gone gold. They are named after a square in the city of Munich, meaning "Munich freedom". They are considered part of the Neue Deutsche Welle musical movement.
Bethlehem is a German extreme metal band from Grevenbroich, formed in 1991 by Jürgen Bartsch and Klaus Matton. Before starting Bethlehem, Bartsch and Matton used to play in a German thrash metal band Morbid Vision. Many of their lyrics revolve around sickness, morbidity, suicide, death and madness, and may to some extent be personal to the band.
Herzwerk II is the fourth studio album by German industrial metal band Megaherz. It is the last album to feature singer Alexx Wesselsky before he left the band together with Noel Pix to form Eisbrecher.
The Madness is the only studio album by the British ska/pop band The Madness, a short-lived incarnation of Madness. It was originally released in mid-1988, on the label Virgin. The album was produced by the Three Eyes, a pseudonym, whose identities remain a mystery. With the demise of Madness and the group's own label Zarjazz, the Madness were directly recruited under Virgin Records.
Dornenreich is an Austrian melodic black metal band, founded in 1996. Alongside their initial metal sound, Dornenreich also regard their music as being neofolk influenced. They have released eight albums on Prophecy Productions.
Live – Nach uns die Sintflut is the eighth album by German rock band Die Ärzte. It is their first live album, released on triple vinyl and double CD, just before the band disbanded.
Die Band, die sie Pferd nannten is the fourth DVD by German rock band Die Ärzte. It was released as the DVD to the 2004 tour Jenseits der Grenze des Zumutbaren [Beyond The Border Of Reasonability], that promoted the album Geräusch. The title is a pun on "Ein Mann, den sie Pferd nannten", the German title for: A Man Called Horse
White Gothic is the debut album by the German gothic metal band Necromance released in 1997.
Cobra Verde is the sixteenth album by Popol Vuh. It was originally released in 1987 on Milan Records as the original motion picture soundtrack of Werner Herzog's Cobra Verde with Klaus Kinski. In 2006 SPV re-released the album with one bonus track.
Sünde is the third studio album by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Eisbrecher, released on 22 August 2008 in Germany and on 26 August in the United States. The limited edition comes as a digipak and includes three bonus tracks.
Zerfall is the first studio album by German gothic/death metal/black metal band Eisregen, released through record label Last Episode in February 1998. The album was rereleased twice by German record label Massacre Records. First time, in 2004 as a compilation album of "Zerfall" and the demo "Das Ende des Weges". Second time, in August 2014, the album was rereleased both in a vinyl record format and in a remastered digipack format. The vinyl record version was limited to 500 copies and the digipack version was limited to 2,000 copies.
Monarchie und Alltag was the 1980 debut album of German rock band Fehlfarben, released on the Welt-rekord-label, a subsidiary of EMI. The album was not well-received initially, but developed a following over time, entering the charts seven months after its release and gradually climbing to peak at #37. The album belatedly spawned a hit single in 1982, "Ein Jahr ", and certified gold in 2000, after a re-release during the post-punk revival.
Bitter Ist's Dem Tod Zu Dienen is the second album by the Austrian black metal band Dornenreich. The album was originally released by CCP Records on June 25, 1999. The album was re-released by Prophecy Productions in 2003, and included the full, uncut booklet.
Skálmöld is a Viking / folk metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in August 2009. The band's name is literally translated as Age of Swords and also means "lawlessness", referring to the Age of the Sturlungs of Icelandic history, when a civil war broke out between the country's family clans.
Memento is the 16th studio album and at the same time the comeback album of the German hard rock band Böhse Onkelz. It was released on 28 October 2016 on their then newly-founded label Matapaloz.
Der Weg einer Freiheit is a German extreme metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2009 by Tobias Jaschinsky as vocalist and Nikita Kamprad as guitarist and principal songwriter. After the release of two studio albums – Der Weg einer Freiheit (2009) and Unstille (2012) – Jaschinsky left the band in 2012 and Kamprad took over vocals. He now performs alongside guitarist Nico Rausch, bassist Nico Ziska and drummer Tobias Schuler. They have released three more studio albums – Stellar (2015), Finisterre (2017) and Noktvrn (2021) – through Season of Mist.
