German musician Joachim Witt is among the few survivors of the new German wave that dominated the airwaves in the early '80s: after years of struggling to regain the popularity he found with his hit single "Goldener Reiter" (Golden Rider), he managed to launch a serious comeback in the second half of the '90s with his album Bayreuth 1 and a single called "Die Flut" (The Flood), whose Wagnerian pomp-meets-heavy guitars aesthetic fit into the Neue Deutsche Härte (new German heaviness) trend spearheaded by Rammstein.
Born in Hamburg on February 22, 1949, Witt started out as an a...