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Mentalist was founded in early 2018 by Peter Moog (guitar) and Kai Stringer (guitar) in Saarbruecken / Germany. They asked their friends Thomen Stauch (drums) and Florian Hertel (bass) to join Mentalist. In 2019 Rob Lundgren (vocals) completed the lineup.
Our goal with Mentalist is to create a very melodic and powerful album that is bursting with power and enthusiasm. We hope that listeners will be able to honor this and hear and feel our love for this music, because then we have reached our goal.
Within a few weeks we were able to gain more than 2.500 Facebook followers.
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It has always been my vision to bring „Mentalist“ to life: Melodic Metal
which combines fantastic melodies and dynamic grooves in a modern way. I’ve always worked on such songs and I am really happy
to finally have found for the Mentalist family such great musicians and
friends to realize Mentalist.
– Peter Moog
For more about Peter see here!
Peter Moog
Lead Guitarist
Most of you might still know me as founding member and drummer of Blind Guardian.
Mentalist is a big enrichment for me in my career, since I found incredibly kind and great new friends by it and the musical style playingwise actually means a new experience for me. I seem to grow with every new challenge in my life an that’s good.
– Thomen Stauch
For more about Thomen click here!
Thomen Stauch
Drummer
As being a founding member of MENTALIST, I’m proud to play in a band with such great, experienced and capable musicians.
Finally I have the opportunity to combine high performance playing skills with sophisticated melodic power metal.
This has always been the goal of my vision and passion.
Along with MENTALIST this vision becomes reality at last. High quality is expected.
Feel the power!
– Kai Stringer
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Kai Stringer
Lead Guitarist
I started playing the bass guitar about 15 years ago, but until now, I was only part of several local bands, mostly playing Progressive Metal. Mentalist is my first Power Metal band and from the moment I joined the band I fell in love with this high-energetic music.
The spirit among the band members is exceptional good and I am looking forward to release our first album with those incredibly talented musicians.
– Florian Hertel
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Florian Hertel
Bass Guitarist
I’m excited to play with Mentalist all over the world. We have a great chemistry when it comes to both the music and personal side of things.
I have been touring Europe and Asia with other bands over the years and of course lots of YouTube videos.
Now it’s time to bring it, big time!
– Rob Lundgren
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Rob Lundgren
Vocalist
Mentalist is a melodic power metal band from Germany / Sweden.
„We are definitely all very experienced musicians and therefore certainly have our own skills, which in one way or another bring the band forward. Everyone in the room has certain strengths that the other may not have, but that’s what makes our band special. Because we balance each other out to finally form a well-functioning unit. That’s what it’s all about in a band that will last.“
– Thomen Stauch
Freedom of Speech
The new album will most likely be called Freedom of Speech and has 10 tracks, including the intro. We are also happy that two excellent guest musicians will back up our songs.
Daniel Heiman (Vocals, Ex-Lost Horizon)
Oliver Palotai (Keyboards, Kamelot, Ex-Doro)
More information will be added shortly.
The album will be released at the beginning of 2020.
We are planing our tour for 2020.
The first song of „Freedom Press“ has already been released.
Check it out here!
Melodic Metal from Germany / Sweden
„The recordings are a team effort but of course each of us come up with ideas and bounce them back and forth until settling. If I have an idea that I really like, I’m not afraid to show the guys and say ‚hey, check this out‘ and they reply ’nice… but maybe try it this way‘ I go back in the studio, test it out and boom, something even better. Or vice versa. There is a great ‚connecting force‘ that makes it all grow, however which way ‚It‘ wants to grow.“ – The songwriting process described by Rob Lundgren
Check out our song teaser for Whispering Winds!
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Thomen Stauch, Peter Moog, Rob Lundgren, Kai Stringer and Florian Hertel (f.l.t.r.)
Thomen records demo drums on Mentalist’s upcoming CD Intro
Mentalist – Run Benjamin (Preview)
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We’re happy to announce that we’ve released our very first single, called „Freedom of Press“.
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Improvised solo by Kai Stringer.
„Kai is one of the best guitarists I know. He was already extremely fast 20 years ago. He has an incredible talent and is extremely creative. His greatest strength may not be, as he thinks, his fast style of play. He’s just a full-fledged, perfect musician and manages to improve each song a lot.“
– Peter Moog
Our fans are amazing!
A big shoutout to our amazing fans and followers!
Over 2,000 likes and subscribes on Facebook within only 2 Weeks.
You guys are the greatest!
with Valrock Zine
Check out our interview with Valrock zine in English or in Portuguese!
Little sneak peek of „Price Of Time“
„Rob has really shown a lot of creativity with the vocals. Already after the first finished demo song we could hardly believe how much talent this guy has. We are very happy to have him!“
– Thomen Stauch
Read the entire interview here!
Mentalist – Believe (Preview)
Little sneak peek of our drummer Thomen Stauch.
„I think you can sometimes hear our musical roots in our songs. Peter has always been a big fan of bands like Iron Maiden, Blind Guardian and Helloween. For my part, I’m a big prog metal and guitar shredding fan. Thomen has no influence. He is the influence!“
– Kai Stringer about the band members‘ musical influences
Our Mascot
At first the Mentalist appeared to Peter in his dreams and forced him to found the band.
This design was made by Thomas Ewerhard (i.a. known as the artist of the cover artwork of the band Avantasia).
To learn more about the Mentalist check out his profile!
Our Mascot
Our Mascot
As you can see, our creative thoughts are spinning all day, just waiting to be processed. This is one of the strengths of this band.
We all are constantly working on new material for the debut album and partly yet on songs for further releases.
When, for example, one of our members yet has to fulfill a recording for a song of our debut album, then the other band members use this time to already compose material for our second album.
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