Rock & Punk

The Rolling Stones are a British rock band formed in 1962. The band is one of the most durable and most commercially successful groups in rock history.

The Beatles were an English rock band in the 1960s. With more than 600 million - according to estimates by their record company EMI even more than a billion - records sold, they are the previously commercially successful band in music history.

The Sweet were a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as a prominent glam rock act, with their most prolific line-up: lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.

The Who is one of the most important British rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. In their music and their appearance, the four Englishmen represented an aggressive variant of British rock music in the early years in comparison to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones . Later they reached by the publication of concept albums Tommy and Quadrophenia a high profile and are now considered as one of the most influential rock bands in music history. After the death of Keith Moon (1978) and John Entwistle (2002) are now only the guitarist Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey of the founding members left.

Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band. Formed in 1994 in Berlin, its members are Till Lindemann (lead vocals), Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar and backing vocals), Paul H. Landers (guitar, backing vocals), Oliver "Ollie" Riedel (bass guitar), Christoph "Doom" Schneider (drums and electronic percussion) and Christian "Flake" Lorenz (keyboards). Since their formation, Rammstein has had no changes in their line-up. The majority of their songs are in German, but they have also performed songs entirely or partially in other languages including English, Spanish, French, and Russian. Rammstein's award-winning live shows are renowned for their pyrotechnic elements and both on- and off-stage theatrics. Rammstein's entire catalogue is published by Universal Music Group.

Böhse Onkelz, derived from the German die Bösen Onkel is a German rock group formed in 1980 in Frankfurt am Main. The band was reunited in 2014. Despite mass-media criticism concerning their past as skinheads, several of their later records topped the German album charts (selling over 5,338,000 records and 425,000 videos or DVDs). E.I.N.S. was their most successful album, with over 510,000 copies sold.

Stephan Weidner, Artist Name The W, is a German music producer, bassist, singer and songwriter. He became known as the bassist and lyricist of the band Böhse Onkelz. The backing group that supports him as a solo artist with live acts and in the studio, also called The W.

Frei.Wild is a rock band from Brixen, Italy. Its members belong to the German-speaking population of South Tyrol and their songs are mostly in German.

Eisbrecher are a German Neue Deutsche Härte band that consists primarily of Alexander Wesselsky (vocals) and Noel Pix (lead guitar/programming), with live support from Jürgen Plangger (guitar), Dominik Palmer (bass), Achim Färber (drums). In the United States and Canada, their record label is currently Metropolis Records. The band's lyrics and slogans often include terms of ice and sailing, such as "Ahoi" ("Ahoy") and "Es wird kalt" ("It's getting cold"); vocalist Alexander Wesselsky often wears naval and military clothing in performances.

Megaherz is a music group founded in Munich in 1993, which is in addition to Oomph! and Rammstein was one of the earliest representatives of the New German hardiness. The project "Megaherz" was founded by Alexander "Alexx" Wesselsky (vocals), Marc Bredtmann (guitar), Josef Kalleder (electric bass), Tobias Trinkl (drums) and Christian Scharinger (keyboard).

Hämatom was first formed in September 2004. In December of that year the band performed at The Night Before Christmas in Hollfeld. Demo singles are known to exist for Häschen and Butzemann, both of which later appeared on their debut EP, Nein. In 2005, the band released Nein. They later caught the attention of JBO, toured with them and signed to their Megapress record label, where their next two albums were released. In 2011 the band played Wacken Open Air, gaining them their first international exposure. In 2012 they supported Megaherz on their tour, including their first shows in Russia. In July 2013 the band played at the Sofia Rocks Festival in Bulgaria, photos of them with Rammstein have been circulating the internet.

Die Ärzte is the name of a German-language band from Berlin. Along with the Düsseldorf band "Die Toten Hosen", it is one of the most commercially successful German music groups with roots in punk rock. The band was founded in 1982 and disbanded in 1988. Since the reunion in 1993, it consists of Farin Urlaub (real name Jan Vetter), Bela B (real name Dirk Felsenheimer) and Rodrigo González.

Die Toten Hosen is the name of a music group from Düsseldorf, which developed from the German punk movement and was founded in 1982. The band plays rock music with mainly German lyrics and elements of punk rock.

Ramones was an American music group from the municipality of Queens in New York City. It is considered the prototype of the punk band, although the term punk was only later as a genre name in connection with a British sub-culture popular. She created the mid-1970s and probably unintentionally, a new genre, as they had an aversion to the then produced rock music in the era of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.