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Artist: Blind Guardian
Genre: Rock/PopForming in the small German town of Krefeld, Blind Guardian perfected a fusion of Gothic- and fantasy-tinged European power metal with the velocity and technical precision of speed metal. Members Hansi Kürsch (vocals, bass), Marcus Siepen (guitar), André Olbrich (guitar), and Thomas Stauch (drums) initially called themselves Lucifer's Heritage,... [+] Read More
Tagged by 1 person, last on March 1, 2007
Artist: Gamma Ray
Genre: Rock/PopKai Hansen formed Helloween in 1984, playing guitar and singing on the speed-metal band's first four albums. He left in early 1989, however, and founded Gamma Ray with vocalist Ralf Scheepers (formerly with Tyran Pace). The duo intended to record a one-off project that Hansen originated while in Helloween, so they recruited bassist Uwe Wessel,... [+] Read More
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Artist: Helloween
Genre: Rock/PopAlongside Switzerland's Celtic Frost and Sweden's Bathory, Germany's Helloween were possibly the most influential heavy metal band to come out of Europe during the 1980s. By taking the hard riffing and minor key melodies handed down from metal masters like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, then infusing them with the speed and energy introduced by... [+] Read More
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Artist: Iron Savior
Genre: Hard Rock/MetalPower metal -- a forceful, hard-driving,and aggressive yet melodic style of heavy metal associated with headbangers like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensrÿche, Helloween, and King Diamond -- got started in the '70s and reached its commercial peak in the '80s. But after the '80s -- after Nirvana and Pearl Jam radically reshaped rock music in... [+] Read More
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Artist: King Size (ger)
Genre: Alternative/IndieHello, we are two young and two old Rockers.By the search of the roots of Punk-Rock we found them in german folksongs....three chords and good speed inspired us to make this kind of music. Hope you enjoy it like we do......greets and fun [+] Read More
Tagged by 1 person, last on April 14, 2008
Artist: Panacea
Genre: Electronic-DancePanacea's Mathias Mootz is one of the first German drum'n'bass producers to make a significant dent among the somewhat insular London jungle crowd, creating a bridge of sorts between the U.K. jungle scene and its Berlin-based antagonist in the "digital hardcore" of Alec Empire, Shizuo, Atari Teenage Riot, etc. Although Mootz's work is reported... [+] Read More
Tagged by 1 person, last on April 16, 2007
Artist: Rammstein
Genre: Rock/PopRammstein was formed in 1993 by an assembly of factory-weary proletarians raised in East Germany. They took their name (adding an "m") from the location of a German tragedy where 80 people were hurt and killed as the result of a crash during an American Air Force flight show. The literal translation of "ram stein" is a battering ram made of... [+] Read More
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