Any here like Ton Steine Sterben? Their "Keine Macht Fuer Niemend" LP is pretty fine pre-punk anarcho rock agit-prop fun. Also mentions to Mutter, the band that can go from Swans-style crushingness to sleazy pop without missing a beat.

Ton Steine Scherben are anarchic and wonderful.
There are so many good German bands

I highly recommend Julian Cope's "Krautrocksampler" to all you Kraut fans. Nice book with information about the most important bands and records from that era.
"The Crack in the cosmic egg" is a nice one too.

Heino

Could it be that almost every American knows Heino? I often come across American artists mentioning Heino in interviews with german media.

yeah, x-mal are/is cool, nothing extraordinaire but cool.

the scorpions with michael schrenker and uli john roth used to be very cool.

and you can't say no to the hoff.

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ellen allien
apparat (i think)
mouse on mars
wigrid
sodom
kreator

not mentioned:

Palais Schaumburg
D.A.F.

(and La Düsseldorf was not mentioned directly...)

Amon Duul II

Ive posted this a while ago but this Krautrock Kompendium ebook is well worth checking out: http://www.thesoundprojector.com/dow...ock-kompendium

Jeebus! How did I forget D.A.F.?!!:eek:

Were 'Trio' German?

Der Mussolini?

Pole aka Stefan Bekte
Cobra Killer
Chicks On Speed (ok, only one of them is german but they operate from there)

Caspar Brotzmann Massaker

Yep. That's them.

Acme
Accion Mutante

not much to do with this thread but i've got a book describing the band "the who" and it is written in german. If anyone wants it (I give it and send it free, das ist ein geschenck) write me a PM

Madsen (in my opinion the best german band at the moment)
Tocotronic
Die Ärzte
Pohlmann (well, not a band, but a pretty good singer/songwriter)

I have a Tocotronic ep but it isn't that good. I think that it was one of those 'single of the week' on the nme a few years ago.

Pole

Raionbashi