There are two artists with this name; German and British- the following refers to the German Amon Düül. There have been two splinters of the German
rock group Amon Düül, of which the more famous is
Amon Düül II. Formed out of the student movement of the 1960s, this latter version are generally considered to be founders of the German rock music scene and a seminal influence on the development of so called
krautrock.