Disembowelment (band)
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Disembowelment is a Australia
n death/doom
band from Melbourne
, Australia
that was formed in November 1989 out of the ashes of two-piece grind
band Bacteria, featuring drummer Paul Mazziotta and guitarist/vocalist Renato Gallina. With the help of Dean Ruprich from Melbourne death/grind band Necrotomy providing session bass, the band released its first demo, "Mourning September" in September 1990.
In 1991, Jason Kells joined the band on lead guitar. The song "Extracted Nails" was recorded in April 1991 at Double Tea Studios for a compilation on the German label Mangled Beyond Recognition, released the following year. The compilation featured Therion
, God Macabre
, Rottrevore
, Cadaver
, Crematory
, Pan.Thy.Monium
, Cenotaph, Hydr Hydr.
Over the 3rd & 4 August 1991, the band went back to Double Tea studios to record their second demo "Deep Sensory Perception into Aural Fate". This recording marked a big step forward in the maturity of the songwriting, performance and overall production. The demo sparked the interest of Relapse Records, who promptly signed them up and released the demo as the "Dusk" Ep in 1992. This was an edited version of the demo that omitted the linking piece of music between the two songs. It also included the first recorded version of "Cerulean Transience Of All My Imagined Shores", a 3rd track not featured on the original demo.
At the end of '91, Matthew Skarajew (Sanctum lead guitarist) joined the band and recorded for the "Cerulean Transcience" track the following year. Initially as full time bassist for the Cerulean session & album, ultimately adding guitar tracks (acoustic and melodic) on the album. He later switched to guitars for the (never recorded) 'covers' E.P.
The 1993 album Transcendence Into The Peripheral
featured a slowly executed drumming style, accompanied by death metal vocals, chants and passages of dark ambience
.
Disembowelment split up after the album's release. Prior to breaking up, the band had mentioned in interviews about a one-off live show that 'would be an event, a unique concert'. This never eventuated.
At this time the band also rehearsed and prepared 5 cover tunes for a potential E.P release. 'Slaughtered Remains' (Necrovore) was a demo track that appeared on the bonus extra disc of the (limited) re-release years later. This featured Paul on drums, Matt on guitars and Renato layered a vocal track on it 3 years later.
Gallina and Skarajew continued working together in the ethno ambient
act Trial of the Bow which Skarajew had originally initiated during his time in Disembowelment. Releasing an E.P 'Ornamentation' and Full length album 'Rite of Passage' to critical approval by the press of the day, notably Rolling Stone and Wired Magazine. Trial of the Bow was licenced to Rykodisc soon after.
Skarajew and Mazziotta have since formed a grind band called Pulgar. (active since 2004)
The band's entire recorded catalogue was re-released as a double and limited edition triple CD by Relapse in 2005. Two different 'Limited Edition' Vinyl Box sets have since been released and have now sold out.
The band "reformed" under the guise of d.USK in 2010, featuring original members Matt and Paul.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n death/doom
Death/doom
Death/doom, sometimes writes as death-doom or deathdoom, is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It combines the slow tempos and pessimistic or depressive mood of doom metal with the deep growling vocals and double kick drumming of death metal...
band from Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
that was formed in November 1989 out of the ashes of two-piece grind
Grindcore
Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....
band Bacteria, featuring drummer Paul Mazziotta and guitarist/vocalist Renato Gallina. With the help of Dean Ruprich from Melbourne death/grind band Necrotomy providing session bass, the band released its first demo, "Mourning September" in September 1990.
Career/Music Style
Disembowelment played a very slow form of doom (with occasional bursts of great speed) that relied equally on the atmospheric effects of droning guitars and constant riffing. The band was known for its atmospheric chanting, slow riffs and spiritual dark elements present in their symphonic, heavily distorted style. They are often credited with spawning the funeral doom movement that developed years later.In 1991, Jason Kells joined the band on lead guitar. The song "Extracted Nails" was recorded in April 1991 at Double Tea Studios for a compilation on the German label Mangled Beyond Recognition, released the following year. The compilation featured Therion
Therion (band)
Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...
, God Macabre
God Macabre
God Macabre was Swedish death metal band. They were formed in the winter of 1988 as a grindcore band named Botten På Burken In 1989 the switched to playing death metal and changed their name to Macabre End. They released a demo in September 1990 titled Consumed by Darkness which turned into an...
, Rottrevore
Rottrevore
Rottrevore is an American death metal band from Pittsburgh, formed in November 1989 by Mark Mastro and Christopher Weber.As of 2011 the band has reunited.-EPs:* 1991 - Copulation Of The Virtuous And Vicious...
, Cadaver
Cadaver (band)
Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...
, Crematory
Crematory (band)
Crematory is a gothic/melodic death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.- History :The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity. Much like the latter two groups, the band had begun as traditional death metal, then evolved...
, Pan.Thy.Monium
Pan.Thy.Monium
Pan.Thy.Monium was a Swedish avant-garde metal band formed and led by Dan Swanö with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity...
, Cenotaph, Hydr Hydr.
Over the 3rd & 4 August 1991, the band went back to Double Tea studios to record their second demo "Deep Sensory Perception into Aural Fate". This recording marked a big step forward in the maturity of the songwriting, performance and overall production. The demo sparked the interest of Relapse Records, who promptly signed them up and released the demo as the "Dusk" Ep in 1992. This was an edited version of the demo that omitted the linking piece of music between the two songs. It also included the first recorded version of "Cerulean Transience Of All My Imagined Shores", a 3rd track not featured on the original demo.
At the end of '91, Matthew Skarajew (Sanctum lead guitarist) joined the band and recorded for the "Cerulean Transcience" track the following year. Initially as full time bassist for the Cerulean session & album, ultimately adding guitar tracks (acoustic and melodic) on the album. He later switched to guitars for the (never recorded) 'covers' E.P.
The 1993 album Transcendence Into The Peripheral
Transcendence into the Peripheral
Transcendence Into the Peripheral is the first full-length album by the Australian death/doom band Disembowelment. The album was originally released in 1993...
featured a slowly executed drumming style, accompanied by death metal vocals, chants and passages of dark ambience
Dark ambient
Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology...
.
Disembowelment split up after the album's release. Prior to breaking up, the band had mentioned in interviews about a one-off live show that 'would be an event, a unique concert'. This never eventuated.
At this time the band also rehearsed and prepared 5 cover tunes for a potential E.P release. 'Slaughtered Remains' (Necrovore) was a demo track that appeared on the bonus extra disc of the (limited) re-release years later. This featured Paul on drums, Matt on guitars and Renato layered a vocal track on it 3 years later.
Gallina and Skarajew continued working together in the ethno ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
act Trial of the Bow which Skarajew had originally initiated during his time in Disembowelment. Releasing an E.P 'Ornamentation' and Full length album 'Rite of Passage' to critical approval by the press of the day, notably Rolling Stone and Wired Magazine. Trial of the Bow was licenced to Rykodisc soon after.
Skarajew and Mazziotta have since formed a grind band called Pulgar. (active since 2004)
The band's entire recorded catalogue was re-released as a double and limited edition triple CD by Relapse in 2005. Two different 'Limited Edition' Vinyl Box sets have since been released and have now sold out.
The band "reformed" under the guise of d.USK in 2010, featuring original members Matt and Paul.
Discography
- Dusk (EP, 1992)
- Transcendence into the PeripheralTranscendence into the PeripheralTranscendence Into the Peripheral is the first full-length album by the Australian death/doom band Disembowelment. The album was originally released in 1993...
(studio, 1993) - DisembowelmentDisembowelment (album)Disembowelment is a compilation of all the recorded material by the Australian death/doom band Disembowelment. It was released on 28 June 2005 by Relapse Records as a two-CD set in a gatefold package with the band's logo embossed on the cover. Included with the album was a booklet featuring an...
(compilation, 2005)
External links
- Disembowelment at Doom-metal.com
- http://www.myspace.com/disembowelmentDisembowelment at MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
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