Mossenek

Mossenek is a duo consisting of Mick Barr (Orthrelm, Crom-Tech, Ocrilim, Krallice) and Chuck Bettis (Trance and the Arcade, The Meta-Matics). The music consists of Mick's violent guitar shredding accompanied by Chuck's electronics, effects and various howls, screams, grunts and moans. Mick and Chuck met in the mid-90's and performed together in the short-lived band Mobo-Stix (also featuring Malcolm McDuffie of Crom-Tech and Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance) in 1996 who never played live nor released anything. They have performed live as a duo sporadically since 2000 but it wasn't until 2012 they made their first proper studio recording "Sublingual Glossectum" and settled on the name Mossenek for their project (before that they were just Mick Barr & Chuck Bettis). They had appeared on record together a few times before. In 2000 when Bettis under his moniker Trance and the Arcade released the album "Survival in Infinity" Mick played on the track "Singalism (Mick's Version)" and involuntarily on "Shot Blasting". In 2005 Bettis released an album of collaborations called "Community of Commotion" where they collaborated on the track "Atheist Revolt" (also featuring Jerry Lim). In January 2010 Chuck Bettis released their first live show on freemusicarchive.org and has since 2012 continued to release more recent shows by Mossenek through Free Music Archive.