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The tour after the live break.

They are back! The masters of poetic lyrics and rousing melodies!

A permanent fixture in the German-speaking music scene for 25 years. Indispensable. Inimitable. Unbroken.

ASP do their thing - authentic and always true to themselves and their fans - and in 2026 this applies MORE THAN EVER.

In 1999, a young band asked the German rock landscape in a seemingly contradictory yet self-confident manner: "Did you miss me?". Demanding and dissenting people in particular rewarded this chutzpah and have been answering the question with a consistent yes for over 25 years, making ASP the galleon figure of an entire scene. The band with the scarily made-up frontman always went about their work with a good dose of bulkiness and mastered the balancing act between lyrical ambition and playful ease. At the same time, she plays several genres from heavy rock to electro to folk ballad - and ultimately none. Because no pigeonhole fits - too many styles serve the stories published on the equally exciting and courageous concept albums.

One thing is certain: ASP are always an experience on stage - whether at indoor concerts, as headliners at the relevant scene festivals or at major metal events such as Wacken Open Air and Rockharz - and they will prove this again in 2026 after their live break.

More than a quarter of a century in which mastermind and namesake Asp Spreng has spun fantastic stories as part of several narrative cycles and established a completely unique style of music for this purpose - Gothic Novel Rock. Most recently, the band surprised with the hit album "Horrors", which offered an exciting change from the previous nested narrative structures with musical short stories - i.e. novellas instead of novels - and provided an exciting intermezzo before devoting itself to a stunning reinterpretation of ASP classics in the anniversary year 2024, which was released under the sonorous name "Returning to Haunted Places". After that, ASP buried themselves in intensive work on their songs in purely handmade acoustic arrangements, revealing perhaps more delicate, but no less passionate and energetic facets of the ASP cosmos.

To be continued ... The dark rockers definitely have something special to offer on the tour: Songs from their upcoming album "HORRORS 2 - Another Collection of Gothic Novellas". Of course, they will also be performing many of their countless hits from almost three decades!