Never would have guessed it. Seriously German accent can be very easy to confuse with french, scandinavian or even russian. Not the "typical" accent. Vere it zounds laik zey arr speeking tscherman aktschually. But the "hard" pronounciation of some words.
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
I quite liked these guys, too - King Khan & The Shrines, Khan is a Berlin based Canadian so it's a German band. Obviously. I'm sure you could tell... even if I had trouble picking it ;
In reply to this comment by luxury_pie:
Thanks for the little concert. Did improve my work day by an order of magnitude :