 After Ernst Horn listened to a bootleg, where somebody added own pieces between the original tracks, Deine Lakaien decided finally to release the album after 16 years with the title "1987".The album "April Skies" was released in 2005 and the band was on tour again in April 2005.The band Vanilla Ninja used material from the video of the Deine Lakaien single "Mindmachine" from 1994 without consent for their own single "Cool Vibes" in 2005.