Steve DiGiorgio

Steve DiGiorgio
Background information
Born	November 7, 1967 Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
Genres	Death metal, black metal, thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, hard rock, jazz fusion, speed metal, symphonic metal, folk metal, heavy metal
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Bass, guitar, keyboard, vocals
Associated acts	Death, Sadus, Autopsy, Futures End, Control Denied, Testament, Quo Vadis, Vintersorg, Iced Earth, Sebastian Bach, Dragonlord, Charred Walls of the Damned, Soen, Obituary, Ephel Duath, Obscura, Anatomy of I
Website	http://www.SteveDigiorgio.com

Steve DiGiorgio (born November 7, 1967, Waukegan, Illinois) is an American musician of Italian descent.

DiGiorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal and death metal bands such as Death,^[1] Autopsy,^[2] Control Denied,^[3] Ephel Duath,^[4] Obscura,^[5] Artension, Faust, Memorain, Painmuseum, Suicide Shift, Soen,^[6] Vintersorg,^[7] Dragonlord,^[8] Iced Earth,^[9] Sebastian Bach,^[10] Obituary,^[11] and is a founding member of Sadus.^[12] He is a founding member of the jazz band Dark Hall and is currently the bass player for Futures End,^[13] Synesis Absorption, Mythodea, Charred Walls of the Damned,^[14] Anatomy of I^[15] and Testament.^[16][17] Along with his bass duties in Sadus he also plays keyboards.

Within his genre, DiGiorgio is respected for his playing skills.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Equipment

DiGiorgio uses a custom Mjollnir by Thor Bass, and also plays custom ESP basses. He is mostly seen with a F-series fretless 5-string bass in a dark green finish, but also uses a very unusual double-neck construction with a fretted and a fretless neck in one body. He currently uses an EBS Fafner head as his main sound, but has also used Ampeg and Randall in the past.^[22]

Steve's bass guitars

• 4001 Custom Rickenbacker (1981)
• Fully Custom Homemade Fender-Like Fretless (1991)^[23]
• 4001 Rickenbacker (1975)
• Custom Carvin BB75F (1996)^[23]
• Custom Carvin BB75 (1999)
• ESP – LTD F-205 (1999)
• ESP Custom Forest 5-string Fretless (1999)^[24]
• ESP Doubleneck Bass^[25]
• Thor Bass Mjolnir 5-string fretless (2008)^[26]
• Thor Bass Mjolnir 6-string Fretless (2010)^[26]
• Thor Bass Freyja 7-string Fretted (2013)
• 4003W Rickenbacker modified with a fretless ebony fretboard by Larry Davis (2014)
• Ibanez BTB1605E with a fretless neck (2016)

Discography

• Sadus – Illusions (1988)^[27]
• Autopsy – Severed Survival (1989, session)^[28]
• Sadus – Swallowed in Black (1990)^[29]
• Autopsy – Fiend for Blood (1991, session)
• Death – Human (1991)^[30]
• Sadus – A Vision of Misery (1992)^[31]
• Death – Individual Thought Patterns (1993)^[32]
• Sadus – Elements of Anger (1997)^[33]
• Testament – The Gathering (1999)^[34]
• Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence (1999)^[35]
• James Murphy – Feeding the Machine (1999)^[36]
• Testament – First Strike Still Deadly (2001)
• Dragonlord – Rapture (2001)
• Iced Earth – Horror Show (2001)^[37]
• Vintersorg – Visions from the Spiral Generator (2002)
• Artension – Future World (2004)
• Lunaris – Cyclic (2004, guest)
• Quo Vadis – Defiant Imagination (2004, session)
• Takayoshi Ohmura – Nowhere to Go (2004)
• Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur (2004)^[38]
• PainmuseuM – Metal for Life (2005)^[39]
• Various artists – Roadrunner United (2005)^[40]
• Rob van der Loo – Freak Neil inc. Characters (2005, guest)
• Sadus – Out for Blood (2006)^[41]
• Scariot – Momentum Shift (2007, session)
• Sebastian Bach – Angel Down (2007)^[42]
• Necro – Death Rap (2007)^[43]
• Roger Staffelbach's Angel of Eden – The End of Never (2007, session)
• Futures End – Memoirs of a Broken Man (2009)^[39]
• Faust – From Glory To Infinity (2009)^[39]
• Charred Walls of the Damned – Charred Walls of the Damned (2010)^[44]
• Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos (2010, guest)
• Christian Muenzner – Timewarp (2011, guest)
• Charred Walls of the Damned – Cold Winds on Timeless Days (2011)^[45]
• Johnny Newman – More than Ever (2011)
• Anatomy of I – Substratum (2011)
• Sylencer – A Lethal Dose of Truth (2012, guest)
• Ephel Duath – On Death And Cosmos (2012)
• Soen – Cognitive (2012)
• Memorain – Evolution (2012)
• Mythodea – Mythodea (2013)
• Artlantica – Across the Seven Seas (2013, session)
• Jeff Hughell – Chaos Labyrinth (2013, guest on track 3)
• Gone In April - Threads Of Existence (2016)
• Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake (2016)

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