

Landshut's Dark Fortress (not to be confused with Dark Suns or the Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral) were formed in 1994, when guitarist Asvargr (the band's founder/leader) joined forces with lead singer Matthias Jell, aka Azathoth, bassist Njord, and drummer Charon. But there is also a black metal band from Landshut with the name Dark Fortress the better known of the two groups, this Dark Fortress formed four years before the Riedstadt-based power metal band and they were still going strong after that band called it quits.

One of them was an '80s-influenced power metal band that was formed in Riedstadt in 1998 and recorded an album titled Light and Darkness in 2000 after that band's breakup a few years later, three of its ex-members - singer/bassist Torsten Thassilo Herbert and guitarists Thorsten Brand and Matthias Bludau - went on to form the power metal band Dragonsfire in 2005. In Germany, there have been two different metal bands called Dark Fortress.
