Jeroen Paul Thesseling
Jeroen Paul Thesseling is a Dutch bass player. Thesseling began studying bass guitar in 1988 at the Conservatory in Enschede, the Netherlands. During the period 1992-1994 he collaborated with the Dutch death metal band Pestilence by recording the jazz/fusion-influenced album Spheres and touring Europe. In 1995 Jeroen 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. Since 2005 he participated in the recordings of Ensemble Salazhar, a contemporary fusion/ world music project. Jeroen joined the German progressive death metal band Obscura in late 2007, with which he recorded their second full-length album Cosmogenesis, released via Relapse Records in February 2009. Thesseling is one of the very few bassists in the metal scene playing fretless bass.
Discography
- Pestilence - Spheres (1993)
- Obscura - Cosmogenesis (2009)