Deja Vu - Biography
Biography
The origin of Deja Vu dates back to 1987 when Werner Kerscher and Timo Zach both saw the band Overkill (Saturday, April 11, 1987, in Regensburg) on their very first European tour and the idea was born to form a heavy metal band. Back then, they only knew that a guitar had six strings and in an emergency, how to tune it. Werner recalls: "We didn'treally care as long as it was loud and heavy". Next, they found capable bandmates with Stephan Moro on drums and Alfons Klostermaier on bass who were already dedicated and driven towards a life of metal.
By early 1987, the band performed it's first gig at the Jugendzentrum in Bogen, Bavaria to a crowd of 150 frenetic, stage diving headbangers and it was the onset of a slightly thrashy approach to Deja Vu's early sound. Vocalist/Guitarist Werner Kerscher laid down his guitar to focus above all on his vocals as the band brought in the seminal Karl Heinz Semmelmann with his creative lead guitar technique that helped form the nucleus of Deja Vu's sound. In 1991 the band recorded the single "Sweet Cheat / Back to the City" which was limited to 500 copies and they wee swallowed up immediately.
After countles gigs, the band began to lose it's perspective surrounded by an atmosphere declaring that metal was almost dead. Stephan Moro explains "there was mainly a lack of gigs" and the band members began sinking into their private trades to get by. In the winter of 2000, Werner, Timo and Stephan took of hold of their eternal metal flame and with an old friend of many years named Wolpo Wohlhaupter on bass, began their first reunon shows playing older material and it was received so well that the band decided in 2005 to return to the studio and write new material which resulted in the album "Bullets to Spare".
Thanks to good reviews, this was followed up in 2008 with "Decibel Disease" and with each release the fanbase began to grow. The band's concert highlights include the 2007 Sword Brother Festival, 2009 Keep it True and Pounding Metal Festivals. The band continues to play various concerts including visits to Switzerland for such events as the Hard Summer, Heavy X-mas and Rock im Zelt festivals which Stephan Moro organized. The absolute highlight of the band's touring history was without a doubt their 2010 appearance at the Basinfirefest in the Czech Republic where Deja Vu performing on the same bill which also include such influential metal giants as Testament, Venom, Ektomorf and various others. The third album, Ejected, released DEJA VU in April 15, 2016 via Infernö Records.
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By early 1987, the band performed it's first gig at the Jugendzentrum in Bogen, Bavaria to a crowd of 150 frenetic, stage diving headbangers and it was the onset of a slightly thrashy approach to Deja Vu's early sound. Vocalist/Guitarist Werner Kerscher laid down his guitar to focus above all on his vocals as the band brought in the seminal Karl Heinz Semmelmann with his creative lead guitar technique that helped form the nucleus of Deja Vu's sound. In 1991 the band recorded the single "Sweet Cheat / Back to the City" which was limited to 500 copies and they wee swallowed up immediately.
After countles gigs, the band began to lose it's perspective surrounded by an atmosphere declaring that metal was almost dead. Stephan Moro explains "there was mainly a lack of gigs" and the band members began sinking into their private trades to get by. In the winter of 2000, Werner, Timo and Stephan took of hold of their eternal metal flame and with an old friend of many years named Wolpo Wohlhaupter on bass, began their first reunon shows playing older material and it was received so well that the band decided in 2005 to return to the studio and write new material which resulted in the album "Bullets to Spare".
Thanks to good reviews, this was followed up in 2008 with "Decibel Disease" and with each release the fanbase began to grow. The band's concert highlights include the 2007 Sword Brother Festival, 2009 Keep it True and Pounding Metal Festivals. The band continues to play various concerts including visits to Switzerland for such events as the Hard Summer, Heavy X-mas and Rock im Zelt festivals which Stephan Moro organized. The absolute highlight of the band's touring history was without a doubt their 2010 appearance at the Basinfirefest in the Czech Republic where Deja Vu performing on the same bill which also include such influential metal giants as Testament, Venom, Ektomorf and various others. The third album, Ejected, released DEJA VU in April 15, 2016 via Infernö Records.
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