Brief timeline
1990: Tilo Wolff releases the tape known as Clamor using the band title of Lacrimosa. 1991: Tilo Wolff founds the newly record company known as Hall of Sermon, as an independent label to publish Lacrimosa's records. 1994: Anne Nurmi joins the solo design to play keyboard, becoming a lasting member presently when.

Musical and thematic development
Lacrimosa's number 1 album, Angst, occurs as super gloomy piece of slow, like minimum music, dominated by keyboards & the depressed, every now & again frantic and harebrained, voice. In that early time, a themes explored across lyrics & music come of a super bleak nature & severity and severity, like fear, helplessness, loneliness, the non-nonentity, unattainability or even illusional nature of love, and dying. A equivalent thematic preoccupations may be detected on the next trine albums, Einsamkeit, Satura & Inferno, however at present so the supplementary caring note begins to healthy in the sorry tapestry. Musically, this cycle is characterized per introduction of electric guitars & basses, by owning supplementary & extra rock elements existence added to the slow, keyboard-depending music of the earliest album.

By having Stille, Lacrimosa releases an album that may well become classified when 'metal', the style which it'll keep utilizing for their have purposes from either so in. Heavily guitars supplemented by other turgid arrangements for authoritative instruments keep around came to dominate the music, showing a close affinity to the gothic metal of bands rather Therion and Within Temptation. Thematically, a emphasis on the darker side of man emotions is lowered in case does'nt abandoned, by owning Stille featuring many uplifting songs. "Stolzes Herz" ("Proud heart") & "Die Strasse der Zeit" ("The Lane of Time") especially sing a praise of single & ethnical nature and severity severally. "Die Strasse der Zeit" describes a journeying backwards across the history ravaged by war, greed & stupidity, until the protagonist finds solace in the vernal hope & nature and severity of ancient Greek culture - an image which reminds one sir thomas more of Nietzsche than of the depressed songs on Angst.

A next album, Elodia, reduces a role of metal-style guitars & increases that of symphonious, authoritative arrangements, this period recorded within a portion per London Symphony Orchestra. Conferred as a play around tierce area, Elodia revolves about a virtually all popular theme around musical history, love. A gothic element is however present, though, & a themes of loss & demise feature conspicuously in the latter half of the 'play', which all the same finishes using an affirmation of hope.

A genre of Elodia is however evident on the 2001 album Fassade, which features a wide kind of musical visions, from either the coarse metal healthy of "Liebesspiel" ("Love Game") to gently promptly keyboards of "Senses", to the symphonic interplay between guitars and orchestra on the title song "Fassade". This latter composition, the piece inside deuce-ace movements which are then intended on the album when tracks Unity, Five & 8, too is the fresh thematic hike of Lacrimosa when it move from either the household emotions it commonly choose to a critique of modern society. It ceases, but, by having a affirmation of individuality & a protagonist's retreat from either society.

Echos bears witness to the farther musical development, when guitars & sir thomas more rock elements choose centre stage less & less typically, whereas authoritative instruments feature more conspicuously. A orchestral arrangements move out of a standard symphonious arrangements which are then typically noticed within contemporary metallic music, every bit is clearly shown per album's number 1 track, a yearn orchestral "Kyrie - Overture". A music in Echos as well shows an influence from either electronic & industrial music, as is especially visible in the song "Ein Hauch von Menschlichkeit" ("A Touch of Humanity"). Overall, this album is supplementary personalized, other 'authoritative' & supplementary quietly than victims that precede it. Thematically, there exists less vary when Lacrimosa continues to choose love & its associated emotions by owning gothic twists.

A independent musical development of Lacrimosa can exist when summarised as follows: starting from either a minimum, slow, keyboard caused style of Angst, guitars & additional metal influences come to play the extrthe & more large role, until it reached a peak in Stille. from either either so inside, a emphasis has shifted from guitars & metal to symphonious & authoritative writing, which is clearly shown in Fassade. Eventually, Echos requires the turn towards a personalized & out of the symphonious & heavily aspects of the former albums, achieving a quite unique mixture of musical elements which is difficult to classify. A pace of Lacrimosa's development is slow plenty that apiece album is recognisably linked to its predecessor & successor, however convenient sufficiency that for example Angst, Stille & Echoes may swell use at times been written by entirely different elastic.

Discography
Angst (Fear) - 1991 Einsamkeit (Loneliness) - 1992 Alles Lüge EP (All Lies) - 1993 Satura - 1993 Schakal EP (Jackal) - 1994 Inferno (Inferno) - 1995 Stolzes Herz EP (Proud Heart) - 1996 Stille (Silence) - 1997 Live - 1998 Alleine zu zweit EP (Alone, in pairs) - 1999 Elodia - 1999 Der Morgen danach EP (The Morning Thereafter) - 2001 Fassade (Facade) - 2001 Vintage Classix LPs - 2002 Durch Nacht und Flut EP (Through Nighttime & Flood) - 2002 Echos (Echoes) - 2003 Lichtgestalt (Luminous Figure) - 2005

Everthing albums were published by Tilo Wolff's have label, Hall of Sermon.