"Rasputin (song) ""Rasputin"" is a 1978 euro disco hit single by the Germany-based pop and euro disco group Boney M., the second from their album ""Nightflight to Venus"". With a tune resembling the second half of the Turkish folk song ""Kâtibim"", it is a semi-biographical song about Grigori Rasputin, a friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family during the early 20th century. The song variously sensationalizes Rasputin as a playboy, mystical healer, and political manipulator. ""Rasputin"" references the hope held by Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna that Grigori Rasputin would heal her hemophiliac son, Tsarevich Alexei of"
"of Wuest and the members of Zuir, plus other Utica-area musicians. In 1977 Earthstar was signed by Nashville-based Moontower Records, who released the group's first album, ""Salterbarty Tales"", the following year. With Schulze's encouragement, Wuest moved to Germany in 1978, where he recorded ""French Skyline"" and a subsequent release, ""Atomkraft? Nein, Danke!"", for Hamburg-based Sky Records [6][7]. Rea joined Wuest and other members of Earthstar in Germany in 1979 and 1980 for sessions at Schulze's IC Studio and appeared on both releases, as well as the unreleased album ""Sleeper, the Nightlifer"". Earthstar is notable as perhaps the only American band"
"Fly to the Rainbow Fly to the Rainbow is the second studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions, released in 1 November 1974 in the United States. In support of their ""Lonesome Crow"" album, Scorpions appeared as the opening act for the British rock band UFO. At the end of the tour, Scorpions lead guitarist Michael Schenker was asked to fill an open position as UFO's guitarist and accepted the role. Schenker's departure temporarily resulted in the breakup of the band but Rudolf Schenker and later Klaus Meine ultimately merged with the band Dawn Road which consisted of guitarist"
"of the group's charm. Outside ""Fünf Sterne deluxe"", DJ Coolmann took care of his own label ""Hong Kong Records"", and released the albums ""Music for Space Tourism Vol.1"" (1995) and ""The Big Tilt"" (1998) under the Visit Venus moniker. 1999 saw the release of the single ""Ja Ja... deine Mudder"" (the title being a German equivalent of ""yo mama""), which marked a comeback after a period of relative quietness. Having already announced a solo album for the April 1998, Das Bo released an EP called ""Türlich Türlich, sicher Dicker / Nur der Zorn zählt"". The release coincided with the new"
"as historical battles and religious references. Album – Billboard (North America) A Night at the Opera (Blind Guardian album) A Night at the Opera is a 2002 album by the German power metal band Blind Guardian. It is named after the 1975 Queen album of the same name, which is itself named after the Marx brothers film of the same name. This album continues a stylistic change from power metal into a more progressive sound, with multiple overlaid vocals, choirs, orchestral keys and guitar leads and less emphasis on powerful guitar riffs and heavy rhythms. As a result, drummer Thomas"
"of a new album. Angel Dust (band) Angel Dust (originally Angeldust) are a German heavy metal band. Initially active from 1984 to 1990 as speed and thrash metal band, they dropped their thrash roots in favor of a power/progressive metal sound upon reforming in 1998. Angel Dust formed in Dortmund, Germany, in 1984 as a typical garage band. They took their name from a song title off English black metal band Venom's debut album ""Welcome To Hell"". The band's musical style was initially heavily influenced by the new wave of British heavy metal and Bay Area thrash metal scenes. They"
"A Night at the Opera (Blind Guardian album) A Night at the Opera is a 2002 album by the German power metal band Blind Guardian. It is named after the 1975 Queen album of the same name, which is itself named after the Marx brothers film of the same name. This album continues a stylistic change from power metal into a more progressive sound, with multiple overlaid vocals, choirs, orchestral keys and guitar leads and less emphasis on powerful guitar riffs and heavy rhythms. As a result, drummer Thomas Stauch would leave the group, citing dissatisfaction with the direction the"
"Angel Dust (band) Angel Dust (originally Angeldust) are a German heavy metal band. Initially active from 1984 to 1990 as speed and thrash metal band, they dropped their thrash roots in favor of a power/progressive metal sound upon reforming in 1998. Angel Dust formed in Dortmund, Germany, in 1984 as a typical garage band. They took their name from a song title off English black metal band Venom's debut album ""Welcome To Hell"". The band's musical style was initially heavily influenced by the new wave of British heavy metal and Bay Area thrash metal scenes. They soon found their niche"
"Geier Sturzflug Geier Sturzflug was a German musical group of the Neue Deutsche Welle genre, created in 1979, and probably best known for their hits ""Bruttosozialprodukt"" (Gross national product), ""Pure Lust am Leben,"" ""Einsamkeit,"" and ""Besuchen Sie Europa."" The first of these was number one in Germany for the entire month of May 1983. They combine rock, pop, ska, and a little jazz to create their sound. Their name translates to ""Vulture Nosedive"" in English. Band members were: Runtergekommen (1981) Heiße Zeiten (1983) CD-Bonus tracks: Dreimal täglich (1984) Pure Lust am Leben (1984) Einsamkeit (1984) Alle Amis singen olala (1984)"
"Geier Sturzflug Geier Sturzflug was a German musical group of the Neue Deutsche Welle genre, created in 1979, and probably best known for their hits ""Bruttosozialprodukt"" (Gross national product), ""Pure Lust am Leben,"" ""Einsamkeit,"" and ""Besuchen Sie Europa."" The first of these was number one in Germany for the entire month of May 1983. They combine rock, pop, ska, and a little jazz to create their sound. Their name translates to ""Vulture Nosedive"" in English. Band members were: Runtergekommen (1981) Heiße Zeiten (1983) CD-Bonus tracks: Dreimal täglich (1984) Pure Lust am Leben (1984) Einsamkeit (1984) Alle Amis singen olala (1984)"
"Magnet. They have recorded only one song, titled ""Trip to Orion"". It was released on vinyl and CD in 1995, and appears on the Japanese dance compilation CD ""Dancemania 1"". The song is based on and includes vocal samples from the German science-fiction TV show ""Raumpatrouille Orion"". At the beginning of the 2000s he formed a new band and currently plays live concerts with his band, touring Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Peter Schilling Peter Schilling (born Pierre Michael Schilling; January 28, 1956) is a German synthpop musician whose songs often feature science-fiction themes like aliens, astronauts and catastrophes. He is"
"Axxis Axxis is a German heavy metal band that was founded in 1988. Their debut album, ""Kingdom of the Night"", became the best-selling debut album ever by a hard rock band in Germany in 1989. Axxis' musical roots lie within the traditional hard rock of the 70s and 80s, including influences of 90s electronic music. The band was formed in early 80s, with the name Anvil. They released several self-recorded demos under that name, before discovering the Canadian band Anvil who had already released an album internationally, In response to this, the band changed their name to “Axis”. In interview"
"Germany, nearly four times as many as their later classic ""Phaedra"". Alpha Centauri (album) Alpha Centauri is the second album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream, released in March 1971 by record label Ohr. The music on this album is quite different from Tangerine Dream’s first album ""Electronic Meditation"", partly because of a heavier reliance on keyboards and electronic technology, although they still mostly remain in the background: the dominant instruments on the album are organ and flute. The other difference is that this album focuses on dark, spacey soundscapes as opposed to jam sessions. The shift in instrumentation"
"October 1977. In 2015 album ""Illusions on a Double Dimple"" (1974) was ranked number 45 in the ""Rolling Stone"" list of ""50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time"". - Triumvirat - Solo albums Triumvirat Triumvirat was a German progressive rock trio that formed in 1969 in Cologne, Germany. The founding members were keyboardist/composer Hans-Jürgen (later simply Jürgen) Fritz (born March 13, 1953), drummer/lyricist Hans Bathelt, and bassist Werner Frangenberg. Triumvirat is the German word for a triumvirate, a grouping of three powerful men, thus referring to the musical trio. During its early years, Triumvirat initially played Top 40 songs"
"Sprung Aus Den Wolken Sprung Aus Den Wolken is a German musical group based out of Berlin, part of Berlin's underground music movement of the 1980s - sometimes referred to as the ""Geniale Dilletanten"" movement. Their music is typically minimalistic industrial music. The band's name is German for ""Jump from the Clouds."" The origin of this title is unknown, however it should be known that the phrase was the title of a 1963 board game, although the possibility that it is a German idiom or simply just made up should not be ruled out either. Also, ""Sprung aus den Wolken"""
"Venus (Belgian band) Venus was a band created in 1997 by five artists hailing from Brussels and Belgium. The original goal of the band was to create an original sound that expressed different emotions through several instruments including guitar, violin, double bass, organ, percussion, synth, and a host of others. Also using the scenography talents of former member Patric Carpentier to create visual emotion through their live performances. They have had success with releases ""Beautiful Days"" and ""Wanda Wultz"" from their Capitol record label release in 2003, Vertigone. The single ""Beautiful Days"" was also a track featured in the film"
"Phaedra (album) Phaedra is the fifth studio album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. It was recorded during November 1973 at The Manor in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England and released on 20 February 1974 through Virgin Records. This is the first Tangerine Dream album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which launched the Berlin School genre. The album marked the beginning of the group's international success and was their first album released on the Virgin label. It achieved six-figure sales in the UK, reaching number 15 in the UK Albums Chart in a 15-week run, with virtually no airplay, only"
"Dune (band) Dune is a German electronic group known for songs such as ""Hardcore Vibes"", ""Are You Ready to Fly?"" and ""Rainbow to the Stars"". The group was founded in 1995 by disc jockey Oliver Froning and producers Jens Oettrich and Bernd Burhoff (alias Plutone). The band's name was inspired by the science fiction film Dune, based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. They released ""Hardcore Vibes"", a largely instrumental track containing spoken words by Froning's niece, and a cover version of Rozalla's song ""Are You Ready to Fly"" as their first two singles, followed in mid-1995 by"
"group, Spacebox, to realize his concept of an authentic European, cyclic structured, minor dominated, modal harmonic, collective improvised, organic-electric live music as a player, composer and songwriter. From 1975 to the early 1980s, his main performance work was through his Spacebox project. With it he performed solo in Berlin und London where he stayed for about half a year each (e.g. Performance Weeks ´London Calling`/New London Theater/Avantgarde Center Oval, all in 1976/1977), enlarged it in 1978 to a quartet in Munich and gained an international reputation as an extremely un-normed, uncommercial underground figure (Kohfidisch Festival 78/Umsonst&Draußen Festivals 78+79/Münchener Performance Wochen"
"Illuminate (band) Illuminate is a German Gothic music band from Karlsruhe formed in 1993 by Johannes Berthold. They played M'era Luna in 2000, 2003 and 2010. Their song ""Dunkellicht"" was on the German Alternative Charts for 8 weeks in 2000, peaking at #4. Their 2004 album ""Augenblicke"" was released on Nuclear Blast records as well as Johannes Berthold's ""Gallery"" label. Ex-Mystic Prophecy Drummer Stefan Dittrich joined the band in 2009 after Mathias Kurth quit due to personal reasons. Currently they are working on new material for their next record. Illuminate's early albums are often associated with Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (literally,"
"well as two versions of the band's rendition of Dutch rock band Shocking Blue's 1969 song ""Venus"", written by Robbie van Leeuwen and produced by Thorsten Brötzmann. ""No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)"" peaked and debuted at number one in Germany. It was their fourth number one single in Germany. Despite this, it fell six places in its second week to number seven. It lasted one more week in the top ten at number eight, before falling eleven places to number nineteen in its fourth week. It managed to last nine weeks in the top 75 meaning it spent"
"Neue Deutsche Todeskunst Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (NDT, translated as ""New German Death Art"") is a musical genre that developed in Germany in the late 1980s. It is credited with establishing the German language in the dark wave movement, although there were already such German bands as Xmal Deutschland, Geisterfahrer and Malaria!. In the late 1980s, a number of German musicians combined music in neo-classical, gothic rock, and Darkwave styles with German philosophical texts and a highly theatrical stage show. The music was based on post-punk, cold wave, and gothic rock of bands such as Joy Division, The Cure, and Siouxsie"
"and drifts. Layer upon layer of futuristic sounds piled one on top of the other until the whole thing climaxes in some interstellar void."" A single was released in 1974 with excerpts of two tracks. Phaedra (album) Phaedra is the fifth studio album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. It was recorded during November 1973 at The Manor in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England and released on 20 February 1974 through Virgin Records. This is the first Tangerine Dream album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which launched the Berlin School genre. The album marked the beginning of the group's international"
"seen in the 1980 film ""The Monster Club"" performing ""The Stripper"". Night (rock band) Night was a rock band formed in 1978 in Los Angeles, California, United States, whose personnel were veteran British-based session musicians. Night's vocalists Stevie Vann (aka Stevie Lange) and Chris Thompson had met when Vann had provided backing vocals for the 1978 album ""Watch"" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band then fronted by Thompson. Soon afterwards Thompson invited Vann to join him in a new outfit, Vann's session group known as Bones having recently disbanded and Thompson having reduced his involvement with Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Richard"
"is currently the subject of a legal dispute between him and Burhoff. Dune (band) Dune is a German electronic group known for songs such as ""Hardcore Vibes"", ""Are You Ready to Fly?"" and ""Rainbow to the Stars"". The group was founded in 1995 by disc jockey Oliver Froning and producers Jens Oettrich and Bernd Burhoff (alias Plutone). The band's name was inspired by the science fiction film Dune, based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. They released ""Hardcore Vibes"", a largely instrumental track containing spoken words by Froning's niece, and a cover version of Rozalla's song ""Are You"
"New German Death Art), especially their 1996 album ""Verfall"". Their music has fewer rock elements and much catchier tunes than more typical Gothic and Darkwave bands. Illuminate's melodies often have piano accompaniment, and their later albums included more electropop elements. Their songs often have themes such as love, loss, longing and the transience of existence. Kapitel 1: Neubeginn Kapitel 2: Krise Kapitel 3: Katastrophe Illuminate (band) Illuminate is a German Gothic music band from Karlsruhe formed in 1993 by Johannes Berthold. They played M'era Luna in 2000, 2003 and 2010. Their song ""Dunkellicht"" was on the German Alternative Charts for"
"and Sex Pistols. Back in Germany by mid-1977, Hagen formed the Nina Hagen Band in West Berlin's Kreuzberg district. In 1978 they released their self-titled debut album, ""Nina Hagen Band"", which included the single ""TV-Glotzer"" (a cover of ""White Punks on Dope"" by The Tubes, though with entirely different German lyrics), and ""Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo"", about West Berlin's then-notorious Berlin Zoologischer Garten station. The album also included a version of ""Rangehn"" (""Go for It""), a song she had previously recorded in East Germany, but with different music. The debut album gained significant attention throughout Germany and abroad, both for its"
"A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time is a first box set by German power metal band Blind Guardian. It contains 15 CDs and covers the bands discography during the so-called Virgin years, between 1988 and 2004. Along with seven studio albums, two live albums and one compilation album (all of them remastered in 2012 and some remixed), it also includes ""Imaginations Through the Looking Glass"" in audio format, a special edition of ""Nightfall In Middle-Earth"" and a CD of demos and rarities. It also came with a 20-page glossy booklet, limited and"
"Best of Scorpions Best of Scorpions is a compilation album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions. It was released in November 17, 1979 in the United States. The record contains songs from their albums between ""Fly to the Rainbow"" and ""Taken by Force"". No songs were culled from their debut album, ""Lonesome Crow"". The original German edition of the cover art featured an image of a scorpion stinging a naked girl's hip. The Japanese edition features an alternative cover showing a naked female's buttocks. The 1984 U.S. re-release cover featured an image of a man wearing a leather jacket"
"Karat (band) Karat (Ger. for ""carat"") is a German rock band, founded in 1975 in East Berlin, then part of the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. Karat also gained a strong following in West Germany when its 1982 album ""Der blaue Planet"" (""The Blue Planet"") was one of the year's top sellers in both East and West Germany, making Karat one of the more prominent bands in German-language rock music. Karat developed out of the East Berlin jazz-rock fusion group Panta Rhei, which lost much of its focus in 1973 when its lead-singer Veronika Fischer left to pursue a"
"Trans-Europe Express (album) Trans-Europe Express () is the sixth studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk. Recorded in mid-1976 in Düsseldorf, Germany, the album was released in March 1977 on Kling Klang Records. It saw the group refine their melodic electronic style, with a focus on sequenced rhythms, minimalism, and occasionally manipulated vocals. The themes include celebrations of the titular European railway service and Europe as a whole, and meditations on the disparities between reality and appearance. ""Trans-Europe Express"" charted at 119 on the American charts and was placed number 30 on the ""Village Voice's"" 1977 Pazz & Jop"
"Gone to Earth (Barclay James Harvest album) Gone to Earth is an album by the English rock group Barclay James Harvest released in 1977. It reached #30 in the UK charts, but in Germany it peaked at #10 and stayed for 197 weeks in the German album charts. As of 2011 it is ranked #6 on the list of longest running albums in the German album charts. Only the ""My Fair Lady"" soundtrack and albums by Simon & Garfunkel (""Greatest Hits""), The Beatles (""1962–1966""), Pink Floyd (""Wish You Were Here"") and Andrea Berg (""Best Of"") spent more weeks in the"
"Relatives Menschsein, Das Ich and Goethes Erben. Neue Deutsche Todeskunst Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (NDT, translated as ""New German Death Art"") is a musical genre that developed in Germany in the late 1980s. It is credited with establishing the German language in the dark wave movement, although there were already such German bands as Xmal Deutschland, Geisterfahrer and Malaria!. In the late 1980s, a number of German musicians combined music in neo-classical, gothic rock, and Darkwave styles with German philosophical texts and a highly theatrical stage show. The music was based on post-punk, cold wave, and gothic rock of bands such"