Desperados>>DEZPERADOZ - GERMANY

The Dawn Of Dying - 2002 - Drakkar
The Legend And The Truth - 2006 - AFM
An Eye For An Eye – 2008 – AFM
Dead Man’s Hand – 2012 – Drakkar
Call Of The Wild – 2017 - Drakkar
Moonshiner - 2024 - El Puerto

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Members
Vocals
Sodom, Onkel Tom Angelripper, Die Knappen, Bassinvaders>>Tom Angelripper [Thomas Such]>>Sodom, Onkel Tom Angelripper, Die Knappen, Bassinvaders - Jail>>ALEX KRAFT>>Jail

Guitar
Jail, Onkel Tom Angelripper>>ALEX KRAFT>>Jail, Onkel Tom Angelripper - Pink Cream 69, D.C. Cooper, Khymera, Place vendome, Missa Mercuria>>Dennis Ward>>Pink Cream 69, Khymera, Place Vendome, Debauchery, Sunstorm, Bob Catley, Unisonic, Wicked Sensation, First Signal, Panorama, Gus G., Hearts On Fire, Magnum – Nils Stuerzer - ANDI KIESEL

Bass
Volker Liebig - Alex Weigand - MANU MANDRYSCH

Drum
Onkel Tom Angelripper, Jail>>Olli Lampertsdörfer - Tyrant Eyes, Onkel Tom Angelripper>>Sascha Tilger>>Tyrant Eyes, Onkel Tom Angelripper – Blind Wizzard, The Warning, Dog Track, Minotaurus, Pump>>Markus Kullmann>>Voodoo Circle, Hartmann, Sinner, Atlantis Drive, Moby Dick, Sinner – Rose’N>>Jochen Rautenstrauch>>Rose’N - Chryztyne, Umbra Et Imago, Zar, DeVicious>>LARS NIPPA>>Zar, DeVicious

Keyboard
Shock Machine, Taraxacum, Freedom Call, Crimson Glory, Roland Grapow, Gamma Ray, Rough Silk, Axel Rudi Pell>>Ferdy Doernberg>>Rough Silk, Axel Rudi Pell, Solo, Therion, Don Dokken, Eden's Curse, Uli Jon Roth, Sainted Sinners




History & Biography
Heidelberg’s Desperados was formed in 2000 by Alex Kraft of Tom Angelripper as a vehicle to mix hard rock with Western music and influences. The band had to change its name to the uncomfortable Dezperadoz by album number two six years later. The record featured several guest appearances, like Tobias Sammet of Edguy and Michael Weikath of Helloween, and had the band on the road at Wacken and touring with Krokus. The line-up had been revamped. Ferdy Doernberg was gone, but soon had a Western song with his main band, Rough Silk, on the A New Beginning album, The group appeared at Mannried Open Air in 2020. The band played in Switzerland in 2020. Moonshiner was supported through a video for the song Evil Wayz. The album featured three new members joining Kraft. An immediate gig was in Mannheim, Germany.


Reviews

DEZPERADOZ - THE LEGEND AND THE TRUTH - AFM  
Dezperadoz (formerly Desperados) is a German band whose shtick is o combine Western music and folklore with heavy metal. What a bad idea. The band’s name, the members (a couple of guys from Tom Angelripper and Pink Cream 69 on this album), the concept story of Wyatt Earp and titles like, what else, Earp’s Vendetta, Hellbilly Square and OK Corral are silly and boring. Guys, why don’t you work retail if you could use some extra cash? Who needs a bunch of theoretical metal musicians to dress up as cowboys and play a cover of Frankie Laine’s Rawhide? Shame on AFM too for signing this when hundreds of legitimate unsigned bands work on their music to no avail. It might be that I never developed a taste for a bunch of freaks whose life was based on killing, raping and environmental degradation, but this band’s music is surely not helping. The scene is so saturated that things are getting past silly. - Anna Tergel


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