NEW ALBUM ON AUGUST 20TH
ABOUT
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.
THE BAND
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
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
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⟿ Thomen Stauch
Drummer
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
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⟿ Peter Moog
Lead Guitarist
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
OUR MUSIC
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
