The second album I bought at the concert I was writing about yesterday is from 2020, also by Goethes Erben. The line the band has followed is like so many others bands in the genre: go from very fanatic, to slightly diluted, to totally pop music and if you’re lucky back to the roots, but now in shiny quality. You can see this process happen in the discography of this band.
As I wrote yesterday, they started as a band in the Neueu Deutsche Todeskunst subgenre. Avant-garde and without concession to anything, and more relevant on stage thatn anywhere else. The first three albums, also called the Trilogy are like that. Then follows the nameless album generally called Goethes Erben, or blue album: more rocky, less dense on the death and poetry. In 2001 the 6th album, Nichts bleibt wie es war was released they almost touched the dizzy heights of pop music. Only to perfect the style that was made before with subsequent albums.
Like this one, because of Corona recorded almost like a chamber ensemble. Singer Oswald Henke accompanied by pianist Sebastian Böttcher and cellist Benni Cellini. I know that last one as the cellist from another band I know, Letzte Instanz. There he played Mittelalter-rock, a whole different genre, mainly popular on German historical / renaissance fairs.