Disarmonia Mundi

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Disarmonia Mundi
Origin	Turin, Italy
Genre(s)	Melodic death metal Progressive death metal (early)
Years active	2000–present
Label(s)	Scarlet, Coroner
Associated acts	Soilwork 5 Star Grave
Website	www.disarmoniamundi.com
Members
Ettore Rigotti Claudio Ravinale Björn "Speed" Strid
Former members
Mirco Andreis Benny Bianco Chinto Simone Palermiti Federico Cagliero

Disarmonia Mundi is a melodic death metal band from Turin, Italy that started out as a progressive death metal band. After Benny Bianco Chinto left the band it featured Soilwork's vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid for two albums. After releasing two albums under Scarlet Records, they have signed to Italy-based Coroner Records.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Early years and Nebularium 1.2 New members, label and Fragments of D-Generation 1.3 Mirco disbands and Mind Tricks 1.4 The Isolation Game 2 Band members 2.1 Current members 2.2 Former members 3 Discography 3.1 Studio albums 4 Videography 5 Cover songs 6 References 7 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Early years and Nebularium

Disarmonia Mundi was founded by Ettore Rigotti in 2000. The band would initially go through several line-up changes but would successfully record their debut album, Nebularium. The album was completely self-produced by Ettore in his home studio. The response to the album allowed the band to sign a contract with Self for Italian distribution and with Cd-Maximum for distribution in Russia. Unfortunately line-up problems would prevent live performances to support Nebularium and in turn would slow down the process of recording the forthcoming album.

[edit] New members, label and Fragments of D-Generation

The only survivors from the former line-up, Ettore Rigotti and Mirco Andreis, would be joined by newcomer Claudio Ravinale. They began working on new material alongside ex-singer, Benny Bianco Chinto. Chinto would write new lyrics and compose vocal lines for the album. Chinto then left to join a melodic death metal band named Dying Awkward Angel. The resulting promo would help Disarmonia Mundi attain a recording contract with Scarlet Records.

Still in search of a front man, Ettore would get in contact with Soilwork front man Björn "Speed" Strid. What started out as a "guest appearance" on the forthcoming album, Fragments of D-Generation^[1] would turn into something greater. The release of Fragments of D-Generation would generate several good reviews^[2][3][4]. The band would follow up the success by shooting a video at Cinecittà's studio for the song "Red Clouds". While Strid would go back to working on Soilwork's Stabbing the Drama, Ettore and Claudio would begin composing the music and lyrics for their third album.

[edit] Mirco disbands and Mind Tricks

While Ettore and Claudio worked on the new record, Mirco decided to leave the band to concentrate on other interests. The remaining members tracked most of the new album in three weeks. The band remained a duo for the recording of Mind Tricks while recording with Strid again on vocals^[5], splitting them equally between Claudio with Ettore contributing clean vocals as well. During the recording, ex-member Mirco shot a video for the band's single "Celestial Furnace".

[edit] The Isolation Game

The new album entitled, The Isolation Game, is set for release November of 2009. Strid and Antony Hämäläinen (Nightrage) will appear on a couple of songs.^[6]

On November 12, 2008, the band released new information on their MySpace: "We have finished the pre-production of our forthcoming fourth album entitled "The Isolation Game" scheduled for an early spring release. News about the label for this album will be revealed very soon." The label would later be revealed as Coroner Records; a new record label based out of Italy. The recordings took place at Ettore Rigotti's "The Metal House" studios in Italy. Bjorn "Speed" Strid (Soilwork, Terror 2000) recorded vocals for "a few songs" on The Isolation Game. Antony Hämäläinen (Nightrage) also contributed vocals. Much like MindTricks, The Isolation Game features more singing from Ettore and Claudio.

Prior to the release of The Isolation Game, Disarmonia Mundi released a remastered edition of their debut album, Nebularium in double disc packaging with the second disc containing six songs that were b-sides to album recording sessions. The second disc is called "The Restless Memoirs E.P" and is slated for release on June 26.

[edit] Band members

[edit] Current members

• Ettore Rigotti − guitars, drums, clean vocals, bass guitar, keyboards
• Claudio Ravinale − gothic vocals, lyrics

[edit] Former members

• Björn "Speed" Strid − death vocals, clean vocals, screamed vocals
• Mirco Andreis − bass guitar
• Benny Bianco Chinto − vocals
• Simone Palermiti − guitar
• Federico Cagliero − guitar

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio albums

• Nebularium (2001)
• Fragments of D-Generation (2004)
• Mind Tricks (2006)
• Nebularium + The Restless Memoirs (2009)
• The Isolation Game (2009)

[edit] Videography

• "Red Clouds" from Fragments of D-Generation
• "Celestial Furnace" from Mind Tricks, available for viewing on the Official Disarmonia Mundi website

[edit] Cover songs

• "Mouth for War" − Pantera from Mind Tricks

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Disarmonia Mundi website
• Disarmonia Mundi at MySpace
• Disarmonia Mundi Forum