Linus Klausenitzer

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Linus Klausenitzer
Obscura, Linus Klausenitzer at Party.San Metal Open Air 2013.jpg
Klausenitzer performing in 2013
Background information
Genres Technical death metal, progressive metal
Instrument(s) Bass guitar
Labels Season of Mist
Website linus-klausenitzer.com

Linus Klausenitzer is a German bass player, best known for being a former bassist for the German progressive death metal band Obscura. He also plays bass in a German/Dutch progressive death metal band Noneuclid, as well as progressive death metal project Alkaloid along with current and former members of both Obscura and Noneuclid.

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Biography

At the age of 19, Klausenitzer attended the Music College in Regensburg, and afterwards made a degree at Hamburg Music and Art University. [1] After finishing studies, he did a lot of session work in different genres, and in the meantime, was in a number of different German bands, Fall of Serenity being the most well-known one. He was also a member of Noneuclid, a German/Dutch progressive death metal band. He first joined Obscura as a touring bassist in 2011 and not shortly afterwards, Klausenitzer was announced as the band's new bassist. [2] With them, he has recorded two albums - 2015's Akróasis and 2018's Diluvium.

In 2014 Klausenitzer takes part in the brand new band called "Alkaloid" (First album "The Malkuth Grimoire" came out in 2015)
As reported on his official website :

In contrast to his bass playing in Obscura and Noneuclid he uses a mix of fretless and fretted bass sounds across the whole album. To accomplish this it uses different sounds and basses: “Ibanez ATK”, a custom 7 string fretless “Ibanez BTB7″ and the hybrid bass “Ibanez Ashula”.

In April 2020, Klausenitzer, as well as his bandmates Rafael Trujillo and Sebastian Lanser, left Obscura due to musical differences and founded a new band named Obsidious. [3]

In 2021, Klausenitzer appeared as live bassist for the German metal band Beyond the Black and played also on their "ORIGINS - The Online Acoustic Experience" live-stream concert. [4]

Equipment

Klausenitzer is endorsed by Ibanez basses and Ernie Ball strings. His main basses are:

About the amplifiers, Linus uses Ampeg.

Discography

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References

  1. ↑ "Interview at delamar magazine". delamar.de. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  2. ↑ Blabbermouth (2011-09-16). "OBSCURA Announces New Bassist". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  3. ↑ "Three-Fourths Of OBSCURA Quits Over Musical Differences". metalinjection.net. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  4. ↑ "Beyond The Black". Linus Klausenitzer. 2021-04-20. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
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