Mental Vortex was created in May 2008 by Jean-François Grégoire (Grett Sotto, ex-Synaptic Orchestra, ex-Spleen, ex-Dragdown, ...) at the guitar and Olivier Lespagnard (ex-Spleen, ex-Dragdown, ...) at the drums.
When they had about ten pieces, they began to look after a bass player, a second guitar player and a singer.
A few singers have been auditioned, but none integrated the band more then a few weeks.
Mental Vortex recorded the drums and guitar of four songs in the Mammouth Production recording studio in May 16th 2009.
About a week after, they founded a second guitar player.
In June, Philippe Worontzoff (AKA Gloom) (Mactabis, ex-Dark Ages, ex-Clouds of Sadness, ex-Black Swords, ...) integrated the band as a singer.
Things didn't went well with two guitars and the second guitar player didn't stayed in Mental Vortex. The band then decided to continue just with one guitar, that is far enough for their music.
In July, Antoine Paterka (Pestifer, V3, Carrefour Bongo's, ex-Hydra, ex-Ali(e)n, ex-Dragdown, ...) completed the line-up by becoming their bass player.
The four song recorded has been completed by Antoine and Philippe at October 9th (with a few modifications made to the vocals at October 13th), still in the Mammouth Production recording studio.
The first Mental Vortex gig has been very well welcome by the audiance then present. Other gigs will follow in 2010.
Their first recording entitled "Dodged Existence's Development" is in pre-listening in this website since November 3rd 2009 and the CD-R version is available since the 25th of that month.