| Jeroen Paul Thesseling | |
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Thesseling performing live with his 7-string Thumb NT bass |
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| Background information | |
| Born | April 13, 1971 |
| Genres | Death metal, jazz fusion, flamenco |
| Instruments | Bass guitar |
| Years active | 1993- |
| Associated acts | Nufutic, Pestilence, Obscura, MaYaN, Ensemble Salazhar |
| Website | www.jeroenthesseling.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Warwick basses Warwick Hellborg Amplification |
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Jeroen Paul Thesseling is a Dutch fretless bass player, most famous for his work in German death metal band Obscura and Dutch death metal band Pestilence.[1][2] He is currently active in Pestilence and his fusion-metal project Nufutic.
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Jeroen Paul Thesseling is a musician who is globally respected and one of the very few bassists in the metal scene that plays fretless basses. He began studying bass in 1988 at the Conservatory in Enschede, the Netherlands. During the period of 1992-1994 he collaborated with the Dutch death metal band Pestilence by recording the jazz/fusion-influenced album Spheres and touring Europe.
In 1995 Thesseling started to study microtonality and developed a 72-tone equal temperament bass. A few years later he decided to concentrate primarily on playing fretless bass guitar. During the period 2003-2005 he has been touring with the flamenco ensemble of guitarist El Periquin. He is also founding member of the contemporary fusion/world music project Ensemble Salazhar, but despite their very much appreciated demo tracks the project didn't release any albums.
In 2007 Thesseling joined the German progressive death metal band Obscura. He toured North America, Europe and recorded their highly-acclaimed full-length albums Cosmogenesis in 2009 and Omnivium in 2011. His playing in Obscura saw much freedom, and was partly influenced by flamenco music. While still working with Obscura he rejoined Pestilence after a 15-year break in October 2009, touring North America, South America, Europe and recorded their sixth studio album Doctrine.
Thesseling left Obscura in 2011. Handling Pestilence's ultra low Doctrine material, he started playing a 7-string fretless bass. German bass manufacturer Warwick released a brand new Thumb NT 7 model for Thesseling, which is equipped with a low F-sharp string. Recently Thesseling and guitar/keyboard player Tommy Talamanca of Sadist founded the fusion-metal studio project Nufutic.
Thesseling is endorsed by Warwick basses. He exclusively plays Thumb NT basses and Hellborg Amplification. He owns a number of relatively vintage Warwick Thumb Neck-Through basses, one of them being built in late '89 and four more in the early 90's. Thesseling declared on the Official Warwick Forum that he used the 1993 model with fretless coromandel fingerboard for the Cosmogenesis recordings and the 1991 model with fretless ebony fingerboard for the Omnivium recordings. However, further on into his career, he started using a new Thumb NT 7 string fretless bass exclusively built by Warwick.
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