Deja Vu (band)
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 DEJA VU in 2015 at the MOA Festival |
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| General information | |
| origin | Straubing , Bavaria , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal , power metal |
| founding | 1987, 2000 |
| Website | www.dejavu-metal.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Werner Kerscher | |
Guitar, vocals |
Timo Zach |
Bass , vocals |
Wolpo Wohlhaupter |
| Stephan Moro | |
| former members | |
guitar |
Karl-Heinz Semmelmann |
bass |
Alfons Klostermeier |
bass |
Thomas Riedhammer |
guitar |
Christian Pickl |
guitar |
Franz Schöniger |
Drums |
Uto Amberger |
Deja Vu ( spelling : DEJA VU ) is a German heavy metal / power metal band from Lower Bavaria .
history
Werner Kerscher and Timo Zach formed the band in 1987 after seeing Overkill on their first European tour together. Stephan Moro on drums and Alfons Klostermeier on bass soon joined them. The four of them had their first public appearances at the end of 1987. At that time, their music still had a thrashy touch . Werner Kerscher later concentrated on singing, which is why Karl-Heinz Semmelmann joined the band as the new guitarist. In 1991, the self-produced single Sweet Cheat / Back to the City was released , which was limited and quickly sold out. Various line-up changes followed (Tom Riedhammer replaced Alfons Klostermeier and Franz Schöniger joined as lead guitarist ) and numerous concerts, but the band soon broke up.
In the winter of 2000, however, Kerscher, Zach and Moro reunited. Wolpo Wohlhaupter took over the bass as a new addition. After further concerts, studio recordings took place for the first time in 2005 and in 2006 Deja Vu were able to release their debut album Bullets to Spare on the German music label Karthago Records ( Pure Steel Records ). In 2008 the second album Decibel Disease followed . The number of performances increased, in 2007 the band performed at the Sword Brother Festival, in 2009 at Keep It True and the Pounding Metal Festival. In 2010 the Basinfirefest followed in the Czech Republic , where the four musicians a. a. contested the festival together with Testament , Venom and Ektomorf . In 2011 they performed at the fifth A Chance for Metal Festival . There were also performances in Switzerland as well as at the Heavy X-mas Festivals and the Hard Summer Festivals 2005 in Straubing , where u. a. also Tankard and Grave Digger were represented, as well as 2014, 2015 and 2017 in Falkenfels and in August 2017 at the Kaltenbach Open Air in Austria.
The band released their third album Ejected in April 2016 via Infernö Records. In June 2017, Deja Vu released the album Bullets Reloaded as a download over the Internet, a new recording of her 2006 album Bullets to Spare with bonus material.
Discography
Singles
- 1991: Sweet Cheat / Back to the City (in-house production)
Albums
- 2006: Bullets to Spare ( Karthago Records / Pure Steel Records )
- 2008: Decibel Disease (Karthago Records / Pure Steel Records)
- 2016: Ejected (Infernö Records)
- 2017: Bullets Reloaded (in-house production)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Band presentation on lady-metal.com. Retrieved November 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Review of Bullets to Spare . Ffm-rock.de, accessed on November 22, 2014.
- ^ Review of Decibel Disease . Powermetal.de, January 26, 2008, accessed November 22, 2014.
- ↑ Live report Keep It True XII ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Metal-district.de, September 2009, accessed on November 22, 2014.
- ↑ Live Report A Chance for Metal Festival V . The-pit.de, October 17, 2011, accessed on November 22, 2014.
- ↑ Review of Ejected . Metalunderground.at, April 21, 2016, accessed on April 27, 2016.
