Epitaph (Germany/Proggy Hard Rock)

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   I'm sorry if they were suggested before (or added), everything I search I come up with hundreds of results of "Epitaph" by King Crimson even when I search artist name. I thought that maybe their first 2/3 albums are around that borderline between hard rock and prog.

There is some info about them on the official page: http://epitaph-band.de/category/en/
The history of EPITAPH begins in the winter of 1969/70 in his time hippest music club Dortmund Fantasio, in the basement
Britain's
 Cliff Jackson (vocals, guitar), his compatriot James McGillivray 
(drums) and bassist Bernd Kolbe practiced and worked on her program, 
while the weekly Fantasio between sizes like Black Sabbath, Rory 
Gallagah, Yes and Argent occurred. Even at this time showed his full professional epitaph formality. Their
 big chance came when Champion Jack Dupree and his performance in 
Fantasio cancelte stepped in the famous Blue with pianist Günter Boas 
EPITAPH as a backing group.
Günter
 Boas producer realized the potential of this band and it's not long and
 EPITAPH signed their first contract with Polydor took subjected then to
 Hanover, shortened their band name of Fagin's EPITAPH in EPITAPH and 
began Klaus Walz (later Jane) as a second guitarist in London Wessex studio recording their first LP and the same epitaph, which was published in the autumn of 1971.
This
 was followed by concerts in Germany and an invitation to the legendary 
Beat Club, in 1972 the first television appearance had the effect of 
EPITAPH.
Already in April 1972, the band was again in the studio to Stop, Look and Listen (Polydor) einzuspielen. Once again, followed by numerous performances, including the major German festivals of the time.
At the end of McGillivray left the group. Drummed
 for him now Achim Wielert (Poret after his marriage), who maneuvered 
with his straight, powerful style of the band in a rockier direction. In August and November 1973 EPITAPH went twice to extensive U.S. tour. At
 the same time they signed a contract with the American Company 
Billingsgate Records in Chicago and produced under the aegis of company 
president Gary Pollack, her third album, Outside the Law.
The
 big international breakthrough seemed within reach, Outside the Law was
 showered with praise and recognition from critics and sold well. Irving
 Azoff (including Manager of the Eagles, REO Speedwagon, Journey) and 
Seymour Stein (including producer of Fleetwood Mac is, as the discoverer
 of Madonna's) came up to EPITAPH. And - log Billingsgate Records bankruptcy. The
 result: a planned burst mammoth tour of the States and, to avoid having
 to answer for the debts of their record company that dissolved EPITAPH 
on in January 1975.
But
 in 1976 they toured in the occupation of Cliff Jackson, Bernd Kolbe, 
Klaus Walz and Jim McGillivray again extensively throughout Germany and 
excited with their melodic, heavily US-oriented rock to the attention of
 Christian Wagner, director of Rock Palace, the band for a TV recording took them under contract. Shortly before the shooting on 2 February 1977 at the WDR studios in Cologne Jim McGillivray left the band and was replaced by Fritz Randow (Eloy) on drums.
In
 the summer of 1977, Klaus Walz and Bernd Kolbe left the band, they came
 for the guitarist Heinz Glass, bassist Harvey Janssen and additional 
keyboardist Michael Karch. In the same year accompanied the Hungarian group EPITAPH Omega at an extended European tour. 1978
 EPITAPH plays as support for omega three legendary concerts in 
Budapest, who were cheered on by more than 30,000 spectators 
frantically. With the new lineup recorded the band's fourth album, Return to Reality, published in April 1979 on the cult label Brain.