Disembowelment

Band information

• Line-up
  • Renato Gallina (vocals, guitar)
  • Jason Kells (guitar)
  • Matthew Skarajew (bass)
  • Paul Mazziotta (drums)

Website

[http://myspace.com/disembowelment myspace.com/disembowelment

Formed

Melbourne, VIC, 1989

Band information

One of the most amazing and unique bands Australia's extreme music scene has ever produced, diSEMBOWELMENT's legacy has continued to reverberate throughout the worldwide metal scene ever since the appearance of their first and only album in 1993, with echoes being heard in the work of such artists as My Dying Bride, Third and the Mortal and maudlin of the Well. While generally considered to exist within the doom metal genre, diSEMBOWELMENT experimented with a wide variety of musical forms that included passages of insanely brutal grind and vocal ambience back to back with blastbeat intensity and avant garde arrangements and compositions within a broadly metal framework.

The band began as a two piece grind act called Bacteria featuring Gallina and Mazziotta that recorded a demo in 1989. As diSEMBOWELMENT, the pair recorded an early demo called 'Mourning September' with bass provided by Dean Ruprich of Necrotomy. The recording attracted worldwide attention and diSEMBOWELMENT recorded a track for an international compilation with Tim Aldridge of Acheron on bass. The song won them a deal with Relapse as they began work on a second demo with new guitarist Kells. The demo, "Deep Sensory Perception Into Aural Fate" was released as the 'Dusk' EP with one extra track that featured new permanent bassist Skarajew. The following year a full-length album emerged that ranks as one of the best metal albums ever produced in Australia. After this, the band decided to split. Gallina and Skarajew continued with Trial of the Bow, a band experimenting with a combination of folk, ambience and Middle Eastern music. Kells went on to form Firebird in the late 90s. Skarajew and Mazziotta are now active in a grind band called Pulgar.

In late 2005, Relapse released all of diSEMBOWELMENT's recorded work as a special edition double CD.