He who eats dust shall reap gold - an apt summary of KRAYENZEIT’s latest epic “Staub und Tr?nen” (“Dust and Tears”). They went through hell itself, they hit rock bottom more than once, they picked each other up, dusted off their jackets and carried on. They continued marching this path unknown, as everybody else hoping, trembling, wishing and dreaming that eventually the muses must show some mercy, that it all will eventually pay off one day. Oh, and it did. Very much like an oyster turning something profane as sand into a precious, perfect pearl, KRAYENZEIT have turned the backlashes and defeats, the headwind and the occasional emotional turmoil into pure gold. “Staub und Tr?nen”, part one of a colossal twin album, bears testimony to all that. Yet, first and foremost, it is an exciting, a spectacular folk rock feat of epic proportions.
