Empyrium是德国Prophecy旗下的一支民谣金属乐队，音乐主题往往是森林和严冬，最初的专辑中，主唱运用了一些黑嗓，毕竟是黑金为主的厂牌嘛，自然多少会受到些影响。乐队的音乐一直呈现一种悲伤的基调，甚至是催人泪下的，你可以联想到连绵不断的森林，在冬日阳光的照射下，一种凄凉，一种寂寞。
 
From all artists on the Prophecy roster, Empyrium have a special standing, and that is not only due to the fact that they were the first-ever band on Prophecy and that they shaped the label's profile like no other band in the first years. With their first two albums &A Wintersunset ...& (1996) and &Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields& (1997), the first main project by Markus Stock a.k.a. Ulf Theodor Schwadorf set standards in the field of romantic, lyrical Dark Metal. The following two masterpieces, &Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays& (1999) and &Weiland& (2002), are considered early works of reference of nature-influenced acoustic music today. With their new track 'The Days Before The Fall' featured on the 2010 compilation &Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings,& Empyrium reported back in an impressive manner after years of silence, and in the summer of 2011, 15 years after the release of their first album, they performed their debut concert – an event their fans had been waiting for for a long time – which wasn't to be their last.