Dezperadoz

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Dezperadoz
Dezperadoz Line Up 2017
Dezperadoz Line Up 2017
General information
origin Heidelberg , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
Genre (s) Heavy metal , country rock
founding 2000 as desperados
Website www.dezperadoz.de
Founding members
Alex Kraft
Tom fishing ripper
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
Alex Kraft
bass
Manuel Mandrysch
Drums
Jochen Rautenstrauch
guitar
Wolfgang M. Sing

Desperados , since 2006 Dezperadoz , is a German band. Her style is a cross between heavy metal and typical Western - soundtracks represents and is sometimes called Western Metal called. The head of the project is the guitarist of Uncle Tom Alexander Kraft.

history

The band around Kraft first appeared in 2000 and released their first album The Dawn of Dying , which was sung by Tom Angelripper alongside Kraft . At that time, Kraft was still concentrating on composing, guitar work and production. The album was released on the Drakkar Entertainment label and contains, among other things, Ennio Morricone's legendary piece of music As A Judgment from the film Spiel mir das Lied von Tod as an intro and a cover version of Ghost Riders In The Sky by Stan Jones. The band then went on a festival tour, but was then put on hold by Kraft for family reasons.

The second album The Legend and the Truth did not follow until April 2006 , on which Tobias Sammet , Michael Weikath ( Helloween ), Doro Pesch and Joacim Cans appear as guest speakers for the individual “roles” of the epic. While the debut album addresses various western scenarios, the second album is a concept work about the life story of the well-known Marshall Wyatt Earp . The second album was released under the new name Dezperadoz on the AFM Records label .

On April 11, 2008, the new album An Eye For An Eye was released on AFM Records. On a journey back in time to the year 1898, it tells the story of a man condemned to death who shot his friend in revenge according to the religious principles he had acquired and who now looks back on his life. “He had killed in the name of religion and was sentenced to death in the name of God. No religion, no belief, no god can approve of coercion, brutality, or murder, no matter what God's name is. The delusion of faith, underlined with violence and frustration, is the hook of all evil. This is what my little story is about, telling this madness of a good man and the circumstances in the last days of the wild west. So long Yippieyeah! "(Alex Kraft)

Tours with, among others, Krokus , Axxis , Gotthard , Thin Lizzy , Rage , Sodom , Doro Pesch, Volbeat , UDO , and Tesla showed the spectrum of the band. The "Dezperadoz" performed at Wacken Open Air , With Full Force , Earthshaker-Fest and Summer Breeze , among others . In 2012 the fourth work Dead Man's Hand , a concept album about Wild Bill Hickok , will be released again by Drakkar Entertainment , as well as a new edition of the first album Dawn of Dying including a bonus track.

At the beginning of 2017 there was a change of line-up, the bassist Manuel Mandrysch and the guitarist Wolfgang Sing joined the Dezperadoz. The fifth album Call of the Wild was released on May 5, 2017.

Discography

  • The Dawn of Dying (2000)
  • The Legend and the Truth (2006)
  • An Eye for an Eye (2008)
  • Dead Man's Hand (2012)
  • Call of the Wild (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. To Dead Man's Hand  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.xxl-rock.com