Jeroen Paul Thesseling

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Jeroen Paul Thesseling
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Jeroen Paul Thesseling, 2016
Background information
Born (1971-04-13) 13 April 1971 (age 53)
Genres Technical death metal
Death metal
Progressive metal
Jazz fusion
Instrument Bass guitar
Years active1991–present
Labels
Member of Obscura
Quadvium
Formerly of Pestilence
Website jeroenpaulthesseling.com

Jeroen Paul Thesseling (born 13 April 1971) is a Dutch fretless bass player, most famous for his work in the German progressive death metal band Obscura [1] and the Dutch progressive death metal band Pestilence. [2]

Contents

Biography

Early life

Jeroen started studying violin and followed his first lessons at the age of 7. During his youth he played with classical orchestras, ensembles and attended several classical music contests. At the age of 16 he switched to bass guitar. [3] [4]

Professional career

Thesseling began studying bass in 1988 at the ArtEZ School of Music in Enschede, Netherlands. Between 1992 and 1994, he was a member of Pestilence, with whom he recorded the jazz fusion-influenced album Spheres . [5] In 1995 Jeroen started to study microtonality, which resulted in two pieces: Hafnium — study in 72-tone equal temperament (1999) — and Argon — study in 18-tone equal temperament (2000). The period following, Arabic microtonal and contemporary classical music inspired him to focus primarily on fretless bass. [6] In 2005, he recorded his first fretless work with the studio group Ensemble Salazhar. [7] Despite their highly acclaimed demo Colors the group never officially released recordings. [8] Between 2007 and 2011, he collaborated with Obscura and recorded with them Cosmogenesis (2009) [9] and Omnivium (2011). [10] Between 2009 and 2012, he rejoined Pestilence after a 15-year break [11] [12] and recorded their sixth studio album Doctrine (2011). Since 2011, he has played exclusively fretless 7-string basses built by German bass luthier Warwick; they are strung with a subcontra F#-tuning (F#0–B0–E1–A1–D2–G2–C3). [13] [14] [15] In late 2014, he founded the jazz fusion group Salazh Trio [16] featuring legendary Cuban drummer/percussionist Horacio Hernández. Their debut work Circulations was released in December 2017. [17] [18] [19] In October 2019, he founded the fusion-world-metal group Quadvium with fellow fretless bass player Steve Di Giorgio. [20] [21] [22] In April 2020, it was revealed that he rejoined the German progressive death metal band Obscura as a permanent bass player after a nine-year break. [23] [24] [25] With them, he recorded their sixth studio album A Valediction (2021). [26] [27] Jeroen Paul Thesseling lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [28]

Equipment

Jeroen Paul Thesseling's Warwick Thumb NT collection Warwick Thumb NT collection Jeroen Paul Thesseling.jpg
Jeroen Paul Thesseling's Warwick Thumb NT collection

Jeroen endorses Warwick basses and has played Warwick Thumb NT series exclusively since 1993. He has played several Thumb NT6 and NT7 basses, each marking different chapters of his musical career. During Pestilence's Spheres era, he played a Thumb NT6 bass. Later on, he started using fretless Thumb NT6 basses, for Obscura's Cosmogenesis and Omnivium era. In 2011, he started playing custom shop Thumb NT7 fretless basses, which are most notably heard on the recording of Pestilence's Doctrine album, Obscura's A Valediction album and Sadist's Firescorched album. [29]

Warwick 7-string basses (customshop)
Warwick 6-string basses
Recording gear

Discography

Studio
Live
Compilations

Official music videos

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