Christian Muenzner is a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 metal guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, best known for playing for technical death metal

Technical death metal

Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...

 band Necrophagist

Necrophagist

Necrophagist is a German death metal band, founded and fronted by Muhammed Suiçmez; a German-born, Turkish guitarist and vocalist. The band is known for its rapid and technical compositions....

 from 2002 until 2006, appearing on their 2004 release Epitaph

Epitaph (Necrophagist album)

Epitaph is the second studio album by German death metal band Necrophagist released by Relapse Records on August 3, 2004. Unlike on Onset of Putrefaction, guitarist and vocalist Muhammed Suiçmez recorded the album alongside a group of live musicians....

. Prior to being in Necrophagist

Necrophagist

Necrophagist is a German death metal band, founded and fronted by Muhammed Suiçmez; a German-born, Turkish guitarist and vocalist. The band is known for its rapid and technical compositions....

, he was in the German death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 act Defeated Sanity

Defeated sanity

Defeated Sanity is a German death metal band from Dachsbach, Bavaria, that was formed in 1994, originally as a side project of guitarist Wolfgang Teske and his son, drummer Lille Gruber. Gruber is the only original remaining member left in the band, following the departure of Teske in July 2008....

, featuring on their debut promo, and the 2002 split with Poppy Seed Grinder. In 2008 he joined the death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Obscura

Obscura (band)

-History:Obscura was founded in 2002 by Steffen Kummerer. The band was named after the Gorguts album Obscura. In 2006 Obscura self-released their debut album Retribution and toured alongside Suffocation within Europe. A European headlining tour through East and South Europe followed in 2007...

 and recorded the album Cosmogenesis

Cosmogenesis (album)

- Band lineup :* Steffen Kummerer - guitars, vocals* Christian Muenzner − guitars* Jeroen Paul Thesseling − bass* Hannes Grossmann - drums* Ron Jarzombek - guest guitar on track 9* Tymon Kruidenier - guest guitar on track 2...

(2009). It was confirmed on the Spawn of Possession

Spawn of Possession

Spawn of Possession is a death metal band from Kalmar, Sweden, founded in 1997.-Biography:Spawn of Possession formed in February 1997, consisting of Jonas Bryssling , Jonas Karlsson , and Dennis Röndum ....

 message board that in June 2009 that Muenzner had joined the band on lead guitar

Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

. He is also a member of Ron Jarzombek

Ron Jarzombek

Ron Jarzombek is an American guitarist best known for his work with Austin, Texas progressive metal trailblazers WatchTower, '90s madcap trio, Spastic Ink, technical extreme metal band Blotted Science, featuring Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster and Obscura drummer Hannes Grossmann, and most...

's latest musical venture Terrestrial Exiled with fellow bandmate and countryman Hannes Grossmann

Hannes Grossmann

Hannes Grossmann is a German drummer who plays for German death metal band Obscura and US technical extreme metal band Blotted Science. His drumming is also heard on the Necrophagist album "Epitaph".-Early life:...

 as well as Spastic Ink

Spastic Ink

Spastic Ink is a progressive technical metal band from the United States.-History:Spastic Ink was formed in 1993 by guitarist Ron Jarzombek of Watchtower after recovering from multiple hand surgeries that had sidelined him, unable to play, for a couple of years. He would be joined by brother Bobby...

 bassist Pete Perez.

Equipment

Muenzner uses Ibanez

Ibanez

is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce...

guitars:
RGT6EXFX,
XPT707 seven string,
JEM77V,
RGD2127Z 7 string,
RGA7 7 string

Amplifiers:
ENGL E 530 preamp,
ENGL 840/50 poweramp

Effects:
-T. C. Electronics G Major multi-effects unit

Defeated Sanity

• Promo 2000 - (2000)
• Talk Evolution/The Parasite (2001), Grodhaisn – split with Poppy Seed Grinder - (2001)