DEZPERADOZ

Release Year: 2012
Artist Origin: GER
Style: expressive adventurous heavy thrash metal

primarily a continuous project of Onkel Tom's guitarist Alex Kraft, this amusing adventurous take on heavy/thrash metal, run through the musical heritage of the Wild West movies, was most unique on this debut album [2000] when it also featured Tom Angelripper himself with a distinct vocal style - not only it was inspired by Ennio Morricone's classic soundtracks, but masterfully adapted the spirit of westerns in surprisingly inspiring way; musically quite straight and familiar thrashing heavy metal, these pounding tracks are all about the atmosphere, accurately built with loud surfing rhythmics, subtle guitar licks setting up a cinematic vibe, and those killer grunts of the frontman that, well, convince more than on some other side-projects; recent German re-issue comes with updated cover and layout, plus Dead from The Eyes Down as bonus