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Ranking: The 10 most successful Rock Acts from Germany
Rammstein, Tokio Hotel or the Scorpions show: Hard sounds from Germany to delight Fans around the world. The ten most successful German rock bands offer the full spectrum of the genre – whether hard rock, Metal, Crossover.
Place 10: Rage
Rage, the Metal Trio from the Ruhr area, excited with an alternating occupation already since the 80s, its Fans – not only in Europe. Until today, frontman Peter “Peavy” Wagner & co a total of 16 albums in the Japanese Charts are housed. This is so far, no other German Band has succeeded.
Place 9: Edguy
1992 based singer Tobias velvet with school friends, the Band Edguy, named after the nickname of your Physiklehrers Edgar. Today rock the Hessen global stage and have two million records sold. But the fills Band-boss velvet not out yet: Since the age of 16 he mixes well with the Heavy Metal all-star project Avantasia in the global scene.
Seat 8: Guano Apes
Crossover Rock from Göttingen: Guano Apes scored with a powerful Ohrwürmern and a singer with raspy vocals. Their Album “Proud Like a God” from 1997 is one of the best-selling English-language debut works from Germany. 2005 separates the Band in the contest, since 2010 singer Sandra Nasić and their boys together again.
7th Place: Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian have followers in Europe, Asia and America. Founded in 1987 in Krefeld in place so far eight albums in the global charts. A hallmark of the Band: orchestral Metal Arrangements and texts of Fantasy stories like the Lord of The rings” or the novel of the TV series “Game of Thrones” inspired.
Seat 6: Gamma Ray
In 1988, leaves the German singer and guitarist Kai Hansen in the band Helloween and founded shortly thereafter, Gamma Ray. With their albums rock the North German Power-metal band until today the international Charts. “Land of the Free II” comes out in 2007, especially in Germany, Japan and Sweden as well.
Place 5: Accept
Heavy metal from Solingen, Germany: Accept, are, with few interruptions, since 1971, at the Start, and are among the longest-serving German Rock Acts. Initially, sings Udo Dirkschneider in Accept. After changing occupations celebrate today with US singer Mark Tornillo achievements: 2014 conquer Accept for the first Time the German Chart peak with “Blind Rage”, Studio album number 14.
4th Place: Tokio Hotel
Tokio Hotel moult from the German-teen Quartet from Magdeburg to the internationally acclaimed Pop-Rock Act. 2009 published the third Album “Humanoid” in German and in an English Version: It is placed in more than ten countries in the Top 10 and chartet also in the USA.
3rd Place: Helloween
What Heavy Metal is concerned, also includes Helloween, the German Exportschlagern. The Hamburger used to be since the 80s on their guitars. With the two-part Album “Keeper of the Seven Keys” make you quickly get a name. Today, the pumpkin heads were more successful than ever. Her Album “My God-Given Right” sweeps 2015 in Europe and Japan in the Charts.
2nd Place: Rammstein
Dark, brutal and provocative: Rammstein are the bad guys among the Rock Acts and sell a million records around the globe. Also side projects of the band members are celebrated, such as Lindemann with the plate “skill Pills”. This storm singer Till Lindemann and the Swede Peter Tägtgren, the Charts from Britain to Australia.
1st Place: Scorpions
No German rock band chartet more frequently and higher than the Scorpions. For five decades the lower Saxony again in the international hit lists: 18 Studio albums, go to your account, an estimated 100 million records they have sold. Interim plans for your retirement, the Rock-Dinos has long been discarded.