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Background information | |
Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Genres | Death/Doom |
Years active | 1989 - 1993 |
Labels | Relapse Records |
Associated acts | Bacteria, Scum, Sanctum, Trial of the Bow, Pulgar, d.USK, Inverloch |
Website | Disembowelment Facebook |
Past members | Renato Gallina Paul Mazziotta Jason Kells Matthew Skarajew |
Disembowelment (stylized diSEMBOWELMENT) was an Australian death-doom band from the second wave of doom metal in the early 90's. Along with Winter, they are considered an early pioneer in the Death/Doom subgenre. In the band's short tenure they would release two demos, an extended play and a studio album.
History[]
The band was founded in 1989 by Renato Gallina and Paul Mazziotta, previously active in the band Bacteria. Together with Dean Ruprich as a studio musician on electric bass, the duo recorded the first demo in 1990, Mourning September. 1991 followed the second demo tape, Deep Sensory Procession Into Aural Fate, which secured them a contract with the American label Relapse Records. There, an EP was first released, Dusk, for which the two pieces of the 1991 demo tape were combined with another piece from 1992 ("Cerulean Transience of All My Imagined Shores").
Reinforced by Jason Kells on guitar and Matthew Skarajew on bass, the band then recorded their only album, Transcendence into the Peripheral, in 1993, half of which consisted of re-recordings of previously released tracks. Shortly after the release of the album, the band broke up, having never played live.
A box-set with all recordings of the band was released in 2005. Skarajew and Mazziotta teamed up in 2010, completing a band called d.USK (later known as Inverloch) and performing at Roadburn Festival, where they played the entirety of Transcendence into the Peripheral.
Discography[]
- Mourning September (Demo) (1990, Imminent Death)
- Deep Sensory Procession Into Aural Fate' (Demo) (1991, Self-Released)
- Dusk (Extended Play) (1992, Relapse Records)
- Transcendence into the Peripheral (Studio Album) (1993, Relapse Records)
- Disembowelment (Compilation) (2005, Relapse Records)
Members[]
- Pat Mazziotta - Drums (1989 - 1993)
- Renato Gallina - Guitar, Vocals (1989 - 1993)
- Jason Kells - Guitar (1991 - 1993)
- Tim Aldridge - Bass (1989 - 1990)
- Dean Ruprich - Bass (1990)
- Matthew Skarajew - Bass (1992 - 1993)