The
group MERESSIN was organized in 1993 on the 6th of September by 2
brothers - Žydrius (voc./l.guitar) and Darius (bass guitar). Before the
brothers decided to organize the group MERESSIN, they played hard rock and heavy
metal. In 1993 Modė Miceika joined the group (he played the drums). As the
members of MERESSIN had been interested in old wave black metal before, they
decided to keep the old black like the foundation of their music. A little bit
later, Mindaugas "the Spider" Lažauninkas (keyb.) joined the group
too, but he played with MERESSIN just for a months. There were composed 8 songs
by the foundation of old black metal and they were recorded in October of 1994
in studio of Virgis Pažemeckas in Telšiai. That first MC "SATAN, ORO TE,
REO PORTAS PATERE" like demo was released by Lithuanian underground
label "DANGUS Prods" in the beginning of 1995. This work was
valued well by the listeners - the MERESSIN gained their fans. Very soon after
that Modė (drums) left the band, Valdas "the Dragon" Latonas started
to play drums in MERESSIN, but 6 months later he left the group too. In the
beginning of 1996 two new members - Artūras "the Cloud" Dargužis
(drums) and Mindaugas Vizgaudis (rhythm guitar) joined MERESSIN. The band made 9
new compositions and recorded them in the beginning of July of 1996 in the
studio of Romas Dambrauskas in Mažeikiai. That album was produced by Virgis Pažemeckas.The
foundation of the music was still the same - black metal with heavy, thrash and
occult metal atmosphere. The music and the lyrics became more professional than
in the first demo. This cass. LP "THE BAPHOMET'S CALL" was released by
the greatest Lithuanian music label
"BOMBA Rec." and on the introducing concert of that MC witch took
place in Vilnius in the club of
"IRON HANG" on the 20th of December of 1996. A little bit
later famous Lithuanian metal stage person Sėkla became the manager of
MERESSIN. The group became one of the most popular
groups in Lithuania. MERESSIN played on one stage with THERION, TORTHARRY
and other well known groups from Lithuania and abroad. In 1997 MERESSIN recorded
the new album "MASK", witch had the same ideas and the music style,
like the works of MERESSIN made before. Lyrics - the philosophy
of satanizm, vizious of the dark side and etc. The manager Sėkla took
care about the recordings so the new album "MASK"was recorded in 24
tracks "Tango" studio in Kaunas. That album was produced by Artūras
Šidlauskas (he worked with some other professional Lithuanian groups). The
"MASK" was released by "LNK Rec." in MC and CD formats. That
was the first CD of MERESSIN. There were 11 songs performed in black, thrash and
heavy metal style. Two songs of the album were sang in Lithuanian (after that
MERESSIN decided to sing in their native tongue). The "MASK" was a
very quality release, but "LNK Rec." did not take a good care about
the "MASK's" promotion and the comercial too. The band played a lot of
concerts alive and became one of the best metal groups in Lithuania, but there
were some troubles inside the group and in 1998 Darius (bass guitar) and
Mindaugas (rhythm guitar) left the group. The manager left the group too. There
were only 2 persons faithful for the ambitions of MERESSIN - Žydrius (voc./l.
guitar) and Artūras "the Cloud" (drums). In 1998 Žydrius had met
Gedas Zdanavičius (bass guitar). Žydrius (voc./l.guitar), Artūras "the
Cloud" (drums) and Gedas Zdanavičius (bass guitar) - these were people who
became the members of MERESSIN in 1998. The ideas of the group has totaly
changed, the music changed too and it could be called like heavy/black
rock'n'roll. After these changes, members of the band decided to use folk
elements in their music first in all the history of MERESSIN, also they used
their native Samogitian language in their lyrics. After that MERESSIN got the
name of the Samogitian group. They started to sing only in Lithuanian - that was
the old promise of the MERESSIN for their listeners. Later in 1999 MERESSIN
recorded some songs during the concert and made a deal with "DANGUS
Prods" again. In April of 2000 the 3rd full-length album
"ALKIS" (THE HUNGER) of MERESSIN was ready for the recording - and it
was recorded in Šiauliai in the studio of Virgis Žlabys (final mastering was
made in Telšiai in "NS" studio"). When "ALKIS" (THE
HUNGER) was already recorded, Mindė Zdanavičius (rhythm guitar/bck.voc), the
brother of Gedas (bass) joined the band. "DANGUS Prods" took care of
the promotion and in 2000, durring the festival "Baltic Thunder"
MERESSIN presented their single tape "PASIUTĘ ŠUNYS" (MAD DOGS).
There were 2 studio songs and 4 live songs. This MC
presented a new album "ALKIS" (THE HUNGER) witch had to show-up
very soon. This album helped the group to come back into the metal stage of
Lithuania. It took 2 years to create this album and it showed up in the
beginning of 2001 in MC and CD formats. "DANGUS Prods" took care of
the promotion of the "ALKIS" (THE HUNGER). In summer of 2001 there was
made the first video in the history of MERESSIN, for the song "AŠMENYS".
Also in the beginning of summer of 2001 Gedas (bass guitar) left the group and
in October his brother Mindė (r. guitar/bck. voc.) left the band too. But very
soon Aurimas Lemežis (bass guitar) was found and joined the group, so MERESSIN
prepares for the new concerts and for the new album too. Dainius Burauskas
("DARK HOLE MAGAZINE") became the new manager of the MERESSIN... Seržas
Simonenko (rhythm guitar) joined the band for a full session member in the end
of 2001.
The new era for MERESSIN begins...