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(Courtesy of the AFM Records website)Without any doubt Alex Kraft (a.o. guitarplayer and producer for "Onkel Tom" Angelripper, ex-Jail-member and part of the AC/DC-coverband Dirty Deeds) is an artist who understands music as an adventure and with whom music can become an adventure. For several years something has been going on in him already. His vision is now given the wonderful name Dezperadoz and leads Heavy Metal into the Wild West. On to characters such as Wyatt Earp, who got dedicated the concept album The Legend And The Truth.
Heavy rocking guitars, a charming Western-flair, grooving Metal-melodies and a huge atmosphere make a spectacular showdown out of this album. A showdown that not only tells about something big, but that also is meant to be something big.
Cradle of The Legend And The Truth is Heidelberg in Germany, where Dezperadoz-Sheriff Alex Kraft and his studio are placed. His fellows are Alex Weigand (Dead Anyway, Dirty Deeds) and life with Lars Sauer. Markus Kullmann and Dennis Ward (a.o. Pink Cream 69) worked on it as producer.
A first forerunner for the The Legend And The Truth-showdown was already sent out in 1999 when the first album of the band The Dawn Of Dying was released. At that time Tom Angelripper (Sodom, Onkel Tom) helped with his guest appearance to give birth to this fusion of hard rocking Metal and Western flair.
An outstanding experiment, which is ready to conquer the world now very similar to the pioneers conquering the Wild West in ancient times.
So saddle your horses, load your guns and let yourself throw off the horseback and blow away again by The Legend And The Truth.
On 21st April 1881 the legendary stage coach robbery took place in Tombstone. On 21st April 2006, exactly 125 years later, this event will be alive again through The Legend And The Truth!
Yipeeyahoo!DEZPERADOZ photos by Michael Wiersch http://www.myspace.com/papayans