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40 Years And Onwards…

German thrash metal ins-tu-on Exumer will celebrate their 40-year anniversary in 2025, and the band is far from slowing down. The band plans to return to form with their 6th studio album, their 4th for Metal Blade Records, and extensive worldwide touring throughout 2025.

Exumer will present a new live set which will feature songs from both of their 1980s cult classic albums, as well as tracks from their enHre Metal Blade catalogue. Showcasing their recently revamped drums & bass rhythm section, fans saw firsthand what to expect during the band’s recent, highly successful European Festival tour in August, 2024.

Since the start from the band’s humble beginnings in 1980s Germany, original founding members, Mem V. Stein and Ray Mensh, have always emphasized longevity over a revolving roster and therefore it is expected that the current line-up will carry the band’s legacy well past and throughout the 2020s.

The band’s philosophy of presenting a contemporary sound, rooted in the feel of 1980s thrash metal, has firmly cemented Exumer in the same league as their generaHon’s fellow German thrash acts such as Kreator, Sodom or Destruction.

Always cognizant of current events, Exumer’s records in the 2000s, themaHcally capture the issues of the time. Whether global political undercurrents as on 2016’, “The Raging Tides”. Or on their last studio album “Hostile Defiance”, where the band managed to strike a nerve with the lyrical concept evolving around mental illness and its societal implications.

Fans and critics alike can look forward to Exumer’s newest output in 2025, when once again the band will musically and lyrically push the envelope in order to deliver exciting and relevant new material, followed by an equally thunderous live experience.

The journey to oblivion continues, 40 years and counting, Exumer is just getting started to carry their legacy and the thrash metal torch into the second half of this decade and beyond.

EXUMER is:

Mem V. Stein – Vocals

Ray Mensh – Guitars

Marc B. – Guitars

Alex Voss – Bass

Jerome Reil – Drums

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Welcome Alex

We would like to announce the addition of our new bassist, Alex Voss.

Mem comments: “We are happy to announce and welcome bassist, Alex Voss, as a permanent member of EXUMER. Alex helped us out during our last full European tour in 2019, and then again in 2023, filling in on bass duties when our former bass player was not able to attend. Since then, Alex has been a great friend and musician who will also be playing bass on our upcoming album and all live dates in the future.”

Exumer line-up:

Mem V. Stein – vocals

Ray Mensh – guitars

Matthias Kassner – drums

Marc B. – guitars

Alex Voss – bass

Pic: @biancalootsen

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The Band

Exumer is:

Mem V. Stein – vocals

Ray Mensh – guitars

T. Schiavo – bass

Matthias Kassner – drums

Marc B. – guitars

Exumer has never been in a rush. The influential German thrash veterans haven’t taken a typical career approach to being a band since they reformed in 2008. Still, Possessed by Fire (1986) and Rising from the Sea (1987) stand as highly­heralded triumphs of the genre, particularly the former. Upon reemerging from hibernation, Exumer released their third full­length worldwide on Metal Blade Records. Fire & Damnation was exceptionally well received, and the band performed a series of shows over the course of the following years across North America, Europe, and South America.

Where Exumer goes, die hard thrash fans surely follow.

Brief Exumer history:
Formed in 1985, by singer/bassist Mem V. Stein and guitarist Ray Mensh, Exumer released Possessed by Fire (1986), and 1987 (Rising from the Sea), that are regarded as some of the most cult thrash metal releases ever to come out of Germany. Exumer was also one of the first thrash metal acts to capture exotic, foreign markets like Poland and Brazil, where their albums were domestically released in the 1980s. Ultimately, the band was plagued by line­up changes and internal turmoil, which lead to a break up in 1990. The band performed live in 2001 at the prestigious Wacken Open Air Festival, which served as their only live appearance until 2009. Mem and Ray decided to re­activate Exumer in 2008. The band embarked on their first tour since 1988 with five show in April and May of 2009. The “5 Nights of Fire Tour”, took the band through Europe (Germany, Holland, Greece), and
the USA, where they headlined the “Thrasho de Mayo Festival”, in front of over a thousand fans in Los Angeles.
Metal Blade Records released Fire & Damnation in April of 2012, which catapulted Exumer back onto the forefront of the international music scene. Shows across the globe in 2012­2015 (Bang Your Head Festival in Germany, South and North American Offensive tour, Blastfest in Norway, European Frost and Fire tour, Wacken, Headbangers Open Air)
further cemented the band’s cult status among the ranks of classic thrash metal acts in the world.