Forseti 是德国的neo folk乐队。在德国的神话传说里, Forseti是维护公平与正义的神. 他从他的父亲Balder那里继承了正义与果断。为了这个原因, Asen让他成为最高的执法者。任何需要寻求解决争议, 或者希望得到明智判决的人都会来到位于一座辉煌宫殿的金色大厅里的Forseti的座下。没有人会带着不公平的决断离开Forseti的辉煌的神殿。每个人都会对得到的判决很满意, 因为这位神的裁决者会用明智的言辞彬彬有礼地解决人类的争端。所以, 有人说, 无论对人类还是对神族, 这都是最好的法庭。无论在舞台上还是录音室里, Forseti都不会使用电声设备。纯粹的原声音乐会给人温暖和情感。他们受到了德国浪漫主义和关于天然世界的诗歌--"大自然的歌词"的影响, 大自然在我的生命中扮演了重要的角色, 尤其是在现代的一切为消费者服务的宗旨和普通的社会给我们巨大的压力的时候。传统和文化的影响力越来越淡, 生命的体验和与生俱来的自由变得越来越压抑,这一点尤其体现在德国这个越来越难以探索你自己的神奇历史的国度。Forseti他们自己亦不讳言越来越对东方的魔法, 异教, 北方的传说和古代文明感兴趣. 这些影响被在写进了歌词里, 但无论如何Forseti不会对在歌曲里表达政治观点。

The debut album. All songs
which were to be found on the demo already plus another five which had been
written in the meantime were recorded for it with producer Dirk Riegner, also
known as the keyboard player of Secret Discovery and recently as the producer of
Milú. After a short period of pre-production at Dirk Riegner's studio, which
then was located right beside the grounds of the Zeche Bochum, the band entered
the snow-covered Principal Studio in Münster about New Year 2003. Within one
week the instruments were recorded, for the vocal recordings the band again went
to Bochum to the small studio of the producer. Afterwards, the album was mixed
on the grounds of the Horus Sound Studios (also Guano Apes etc.) in Hannover at
a small studio of mixing engineer Modo Bierkamp. Three months later, the result
- provided with an artwork by Kai Hoffmann (also Secret Discovery) - hit the
stores on 5 May, 2003, and at once met with as much approval as to enter the
German charts: On number 98 it only just hit them, but this was quite remarkable
for a German band whose sound mainly was and still is influenced by Gothic
Metal. The press also was very much taken with the band and the album without
exeption gained good marks in the reviews of the scene magazines well-known and
unknown.
"Of course
everything was very new and fascinating for us. The time spent together at the
studio also today still seems like a dream to us, it was big fun to record our
songs in a great, professional studio. Beforehand we were slightly suspicious
because as a guitar-oriented band we were to be produced by a keyboard player,
but then it all turned out well, although there were differences every now and
then. I kind of got my teeth into the decision not to be singing anymore, but in
retrospect it was good - I'm no singing talent, you can convince yourselves with
the demos, haha! Finally, it became a nice album with everything we wanted at
that time: Rocking guitars, a few spacy sounds, much atmosphere. Tiamat and
Paradise Lost then were important influences, and you can right hear that. We
still are very concerned about many of those songs, and no matter we already
have played them a thousand times, they still are fun." (Marco)

Neon Golden was a subtle rewiring of the Notwist's long-established baroque hip-hop post-rock fetishist technique. The album's minimal kitchen-sink vibe was stronger, the wide assortment of instruments were arranged with new conviction, and the band would throw in a startlingly unpretentious mixture of tub-thumbing static, cellos, banjos, organs, and breakbeats while Markus Acher's Belle & Sebastian-styled vocals flowed underneath like island run-off. In "This Room," "Pick Up the Phone," "Off the Rails," and the excellent "Consequence," the intricacy of the band's sound remained, but with less experimental desperation and considerably better ideas.

Empyrium，融入Doom/Dark/Black/Folk/Classic等音乐元素的，把对生命的思考及对大自然的热爱，以低调唯美的方式表现得淋漓尽致。日暮苍山，浮光掠影，斜阳如钩，穿透生命的秘密，像梵高画笔下的向日葵绚烂而热烈。在主唱Markus低沉清晰的吟唱里，充斥黑暗的感觉，却无限美好，像玩魔法的孩子，而非邪恶的巫师。力量厚重背后的挽歌，凄楚但无比动人。
Empyrium在2002年发行了他们的最后一张专辑《Weiland》之后便宣告解散，这是他们的第四张Album，其实就是3个Ep的合集。
——以上评论转自网络

10 of the most intelligent, moving, graceful songs you will get to hear all year.

Besser könnte es für den ehemaligen Kranken- und Altenpfleger wahrlich nicht laufen: Souverän und unangefochten, wie er bereits seine Mitkonkurrenten bei DSDS hinter sich liess, setzte sich Sieger Mark Medlock mit seiner Debütsingle «Now Or Never» an die Spitze. «Ich habe den ersten Platz in Österreich, in der Schweiz und in Germany gemacht. Ich hoffe das wird so bleiben», erzählte ein strahlender Mark, der sich wahnsinnig freute und einfach «verdammt gut» fühlte.
Nun geht es für den 28-Jährigen in die nächste Runde: Auf Mark warten «Auftritte, Auftritte, Auftritte! Bobbelsche geht auf die Bühne und gibt richtig Gas», lacht er und kündet sein neues Album an. Am 15. Juni erscheint das Gemeinschaftswerk vom geliebten und gehassten Poptitan Dieter Bohlen und Mark Medlock: «Mr. Lonely». Wer einen Vorgeschmack auf mehr-mehr-mehr Medlock will, der darf sich den Videoclip (unter «Zum Thema») nicht entegehen lassen.

Tocotronic is a German rock band founded 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.