MESENTERY

track-list:
Soulfucker
To Be The Odd One Out
Punisher
The Time Before Death
Damned Liars
2025
Inevitable
Virtopsy
Quo Vadis
Mesentery

discography:
2022 Soulfucker (Album)
2008 Bound Windows (EP)
2003 Slaves (EP)
2000 Blood Rain (Album)

After a break of almost ten years, the German Death Metal band MESENTERY has newly formed and is now back in a combative manner, with the new album ‘Soulfucker’ to be released today, on February 11, 2022, via Dr. Music Records.
Driven by frontman and guitarist Marcel Braun, the musicians injected fresh life into their band and produced with Eike O. Freese (Helloween, Alice Cooper, Heaven Shall Burn) ten varied tracks at the legendary Chameleon Recording Studio Hamburg, blending Death Metal, Thrash and other Extreme Metal influences into an explosive mixture.
In the past weeks, it was already possible to get in the mood for this aggressive melange with the three pre-released singles.
The melancholic ‘The Time Before Death’, dealing with the transitoriness and waste of a useless human existence, characterized by blind consumption and a non-existent meaning, has been released first.
The threatening apocalyptic vision ‘2025’ followed as second single, whose lyric video has also been viciously directly produced by English video artist Andy Pilkington of Very Metal Art (Judas Priest, Onslaught, Sortout), perfectly reflecting the message of each song with a morbid charm.
At the end of January, the rough driving and energetic track ‘Inevitable’ has been released, showing a world that has sealed its fate without hope for redemption, and in the impressively dystopian music video, the sinister lyrics become a brutal reality.
The clip, produced with the team of VideoProduktionsHaus, presents the collapse of human existence in angrily brute visuals.
Around the center-performing band, various horror scenarios of interpersonal madness play out in an end-time-like morbid setting in numerous honeycomb-like stacked, padded rooms.
Mastermind Marcel Braun, on vocals, guitars and bass, and drummer Eryc Botz have both created an album with ‘Soulfucker’, defined by anger and pain about the misbehavior of society.
This manifests itself, especially in the title theme, which is based on the unsparing biography ‘Seelenficker’, where the author using the pseudonym Natascha traces her relentless, unprettified time on drug-related prostitution and as a crystal meth addict.
Diabolic suspense is built up between hard old-school riffs, brutal grooves and harmonious melody peaks.
The album’s lyrics are a warning and depict what is going on in our sick, self-centered and greedy society with full harshness and mercilessness.
‘Soulfucker’ is a treat for underground Death Metal maniacs with its aggressive attitude, the exciting and drastic title theme as well as socio-critical lyrics, not only instrumentally.
MESENTERY were founded in 1992 by Marcel Braun and Carsten Pickbrenner and joined shortly after by guitarist Florian Triska, bass player Boris Stellmann and shouter Christian Busch.
In the year 2000, after three demos, the debut album ‘Blood Rain’ was released, as well as later the EPs ‘Slaves’ and ‘Bound Windows’ via Low Records.
Together they played numerous shows and toured with the Chilean Death Thrash underground cult band Undercroft.
After the tragic death of Boris Stellmann in 2014, the friends initially put the band on hold and devoted themselves to other projects.
But over the years, MESENTERY were not out of the bandleader’s mind and so he awoke his formation from the icy, deep sleep two years ago.
Initially, he continued developing the sound on his own and created the new Death Metal album ‘Soulfucker’ quite single-handedly.
In the meantime, he convinced his old bandmates Florian Triska and Carsten Pickbrenner to bring MESENTERY back on stage with a full line-up.
The ten songs with their mixture of Death Metal, Thrash as well as other Extreme Metal influences literally scream for their baptism of fire in the clubs.