Irrlicht

The band was founded in 1996 by Markus Meier (lyrics) and Markus Nauli (keyboards). In 1997, they got the first concert booking and for this event, Renato Kienberger joined Irrlicht.
The first 3 releases of the band (“Armer Narr”, Zeit & Gedankensplitter) were containing typical influences of the traditional darkwave music of german poetic spoken words bands like GOETHES ERBEN and ENDRAUM.
The band became popular in Switzerland after releasing these records and allowed them to get a live story at a music show of the official swiss television. As a support to ILLUMINATE during their germany-tour 2001, Irrlicht became firmly established in the dark music scene. The release of the 4th fulltime- album “Garten der Seraphina” was crowned by a live act at the biggest festival of the “dark scene” – the WAVE GOTHIC TREFFEN at Leipzig. In the meantime, the line-up of the band was added by a guitarist who was growing the musical aspects of Irrlicht, honoured by the top scene magazines ZILLO, GOTHIC and ORKUS.