Maeror Tri


Maeror Tri was an ambient, noise and drone music band from Germany founded in the 1980s which consisted of Stefan "Baraka H" Knappe, Martin "GLITCH" Gitschel and Helge S. Moune
In a way similar to Zoviet France, they used only live instruments to produce music with an enormous number of effects applied. They disbanded in the late 1990s after releasing a number of limited-edition records. They released music on labels such as Old Europa Cafe, Ant-Zen, Staalplaat, and Soleilmoon.
Stefan and Martin continued under the name of Troum, while Helge is recording as Tausendschoen. Stefan Knappe is also the founder and owner of Drone Records.
German band Maeror Tri was founded in April 1988 by Stefan Knappe and Helge S. Moune. The group consisted of three members who only used electric guitars and tons of processing devices to create their droning soundscapes. Their music borrowed elements from Industrial, Avantgarde, Minimalism and New Age meditation to reach a new form of transcendentalism.
Very little is known about their origins, even the identity of the band’s members remains vague, except for Stefan Knappe, the group's spokesperson and also owner of the label Drone Records. Nevertheless it is for sure that all three members origin from the city Leer in northern Germany and know each other since their time in school.
The name they chose is probably an incorrect Latin expression that may be better translated as "The Mourning Three" or "The Grieving Three".
"Dedicated To A New Dawn", their first cassette, was self-released on their own Baracken Records in 1988, soon followed by many more cassette works on labels like ZNS, Tonspur and Audiofile, and a lot of compilations appearances.
In 1993 Korm Plastics released the very first "overground" Maeror Tri album "Multiple Personality Disorder" a concept CD divided in four long parts recorded back in 1991 that fully showcase their mastery in distorting and layering guitar sounds. It was soon followed by "Meditamentum", a collection of selected tape tracks recorded from 1988 to 1993.
"Myein", a monumental work recorded between 1992 and 1993, was released on americal label ND in 1995. This work presented three long tracks that well exemplify some of the aspects of their art: the gothic droning of "Phlogiston", the ambient-electronica of "Desiderium", and the cosmic doodling of the 47 minutes long title track.
"Language of Flames and Sound", released on Italian label Old Europa Cafe in 1996, continued to chronicle the group's evolution into more abstract domains.
In late 1996, as the group was about to break into the growing experimental electronica scene, one member of the band, Helge S. Moune, decided to quit, leaving Knappe and his other partner to continue as the duo Troum.
"Mort aux Vaches", a symphony in three movements and the group's installment in Staalplaat's series of experimental electronica, and "Emotional Engramm", probably their most accessible recording, were both released posthumous in 1997.
Archive material has continued to surface over the years after the group ceased to exist: a second volume of "Meditamentum", released on Manifold in 1999, salvaged more material from the early years limited edition cassettes, while the "Hypnotikum I" and "Hypnotikum II" LPs are valid examples of the group's live attitude.

Discography - LPs/EPs/singles

Discography - Compilation appearances

YearTrack titleAppears on/Compilation nameFormatLabel
1989WheelThe Final CompilationMC De Koude Oorlog
1989The Last PerceptionTape Rebel 9MC Weed Music
1990Growing RotationDetonatorMC Bestattungsinstitut
1990Ecstatic SingingNon-Nuclear WarMC ZNS Tapes
1990Cursed ColoursA Tender TensionMC Pharaoh Chronium Sounds
1990ChirpingCrime On Family Bombed Mother And Son2MC Black Death
1990Endless SpaceThree Into One Vol. 7MC Clockwork Tapes
1990Secret Ways Of A PyramidThree Into One Vol. 7MC Clockwork Tapes
1990TranquilizerThree Into One Vol. 7MC Clockwork Tapes
1990This Is HeavenThree Into One Vol. 7MC Clockwork Tapes
1990ParticipationStuhlgangsblockadenLPSchimpfluch
1991Choir Of TranscendenceDevastating Templaric SoundsMC Biotope Art Organization
1991The Seven SignalsIt's TimeMC Black Death
1991TremorParadoxical ParalysisMC Bestattungsinstitut
1991ArcanaDouble-MindMC Tears Compilations
1991From Where Comes This Fear?Double-MindMC Tears Compilations
1991AnkhDouble-MindMC Tears Compilations
1991PriorMagnetic FieldsMC SPH
1991Love In A VacuumMagnetic FieldsMC SPH
1991OmniumMagnetic FieldsMC SPH
1991SearcherNinians Night ElvesMC Love Is The Reason Why
1991Ab InferisMotop 2CDIf Records
1992AmygdalaeA New Kind Of TormentMC Linea Taktika
1992IngeniumBehind Mysterious GatesMC No Control Torture
1992Lacus MortisAllianzMC Pallentin
1992Entropy's Child In A Thoughtful MoodKeine EinzelgängerMC Cat-Killer
1992ExiltasNeue Muster Vol 8&92MC Tonspur
1992A Storm Of SparksMetallverarbeitende IndustrieMC Bestattungsinstitut
1992ArdorBehind Mysterious GatesCDNo Control Torture
1993Inner LightningNightporters Vol.2MCJeremy Bamber Tapes
1993Droning SoulsMacrocephalous CompostVideo Old Europa Cafe
1994The Glowing Of NightVexatio CerebriMC Contaminated Productions
1994PhilemonBad Alchemy #23MCtape-magazine
1994SuavitasOutbreakers IICDEbu's Music
1994UltramundanVeromonMC Ant-Zen
1994Subliminal ConversationAtmosphere & EmpathyMC Ebu's Music
1994The Reckoning SpaceNotre-Dame Vol.7MC EE-Tapes
1994Searcher Real Underground Vol.1&2MC Progressive Entertainment
1994Searcher Auf Abwegen #16MCtape-magazine
1994Spiritual EmanationsAuf Abwegen #16MCtape-magazine
1994The Beginning Of The UnmeasuredBovine Spongiform EncephalopathyCDFools Paradise
1994Immersion In EmotionFrom The Hills Of DreamVideo/MCDirection Music
1995FragilitasL'Ordre Et Le ChaosCDActus Dei
1995Inner Spheres DeceasingInvisible DomainsCDMalignant Records
1995NeophobiaPathological ResonanceMC Anomalous Records
1996The AnaesthetiseSlumbermusicCDUniversal Egg Records
1997Terraformen 1Rйgйnйration - Dйgйnйrescence2CDCynistrose