Steve DiGiorgio

Steve Digiorgio
Born	November 7, 1967 (1967-11-07) Waukegan, Illinois, US
Genres	Death metal, black metal, thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, hard rock, jazz fusion, speed metal, symphonic metal, folk metal, heavy metal
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Bass, keyboards, vocals, sitar
Associated acts	Death, Autopsy, Futures End, Control Denied, Testament, Quo Vadis, Vintersorg, Iced Earth, Sadus, Sebastian Bach, Dragonlord, Charred Walls of the Damned, Obituary
Website	http://www.SteveDigiorgio.com

Steve DiGiorgio (born November 7, 1967, Waukegan, Illinois) is an American bassist and musician.

DiGiorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal bands such as Death, Autopsy, Control Denied, Testament, Vintersorg, Iced Earth, Sebastian Bach, Charred Walls of the Damned, Obituary, and is a founding member of Sadus. He is widely renowned for his technical skills on the fretless bass. He is also a founding member of the jazz-band Dark Hall and is currently the bass player for Futures End. Along with his bass duties in Sadus he also plays keyboards.

Within his genre, Steve DiGiorgio is respected for his playing skills. He is noted for his ability to execute very fast 32nd notes with his plucking fingers, as opposed to using a pick.

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 uses Ampeg SVT Classic amps and cabinets by Ampeg and Randall.

Discography

Albums

• Sadus - Illusions (1988)
• Autopsy - Severed Survival (1989)
• Sadus - Swallowed in Black (1990)
• Death - Human (1991)
• Sadus - A Vision of Misery (1992)
• Death - Individual Thought Patterns (1993)
• Sadus - Elements of Anger (1997)
• Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence (1999)
• James Murphy - Feeding the Machine (1999)
• Testament - The Gathering (1999)
• Dragonlord - Rapture (2001)
• Iced Earth - Horror Show (2001)
• Testament - First Strike Still Deadly (2001)
• Vintersorg - Visions from the Spiral Generator (2002)
• Artension - Future World (2004)
• Lunaris - Cyclic (2004)
• Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination (2004)
• Takayoshi Ohmura - Nowhere to Go (2004)
• Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur (2004)
• Rob van der Loo - Freak Neil inc. Characters (2005)
• Necro - Death Rap (2007) (on track "Suffocated to Death by God's Shadow")
• PainmuseuM - Metal for Life (2005)
• Sadus - Out for Blood (2006)
• Various artists - Roadrunner United - Constitution Down (fretless bass), Annihilation by the Hands of God (fretless bass) (2005)
• Scariot - Momentum Shift (2007)
• Sebastian Bach - Angel Down (2007)
• Death - Symbolic (Re-mastered) (only at 4 demo-tracks) (2008)
• Futures End - Memoirs of a Broken Man (2009)
• Faust - From Glory To Infinity (2009)
• Charred Walls of the Damned - Charred Walls of the Damned (2010)
• Control Denied - When Man and Machine Collide (2011)
• Christian Muenzner - Timewarp (2011)
• Johnny Newman - More than Ever (2011)

EP

• Autopsy - Fiend for Blood (1991)

Demos

• Sadus - D.T.P. (1986, 2003)
• Sadus - Certain Death (1987)
• Sadus - The Wake of Severity (1989)
• Sadus - Red Demo (1994)
• Dark Hall - Demo (1995, 1998)

Compilations

• Death - Fate: The Best of Death (1992)
• Sadus - Chronicles of Chaos (1997)

Videography

Clips

Death - The Philosopher (1993)

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 uses Ampeg SVT Classic amps and cabinets by Ampeg and Randall.

All basses except the Ric's are fitted with Hipshot Extender Keys. Strings - Rotosound swing bass 66. Gauge: 110-85-70-50-30. Cables - Monster Cables. Amplifiers - Ampeg SVT Classic, Randall, Ampeg 8X10, Ampeg 1X15, Ampeg 2X10 w/horn, Randall 2X15. Wireless - Nady 101. Effects - DOD: Stereo Chorus, Stereo Flanger, Octoplus, Bass EQ, Envelope Filter, 270 A/B. Digitech: Two Second Digital Delay, Digital Stereo Chorus/Flanger. Ibanez: BP10 Compressor. Korg: AX1B. Keyboard - Korg: DW8000. Soundmodule - Yamaha: TX81Z. Alesis: Microverb III, SR16. Misc. - The Bass Hammer, EBow. Cases - A&S Custom flight cases.

Steve's bass guitars

• 4001 Custom Rickenbacker (1981)
• Fully Custom Homemade Fender-Like Fretless (1991)
• 4001 Rickenbacker (1975)
• Custom Carvin BB75F (1996)
• Custom Carvin BB75 (1999)
• ESP - LTD F-205 (1999)
• ESP Custom Forest Fretless (1999)
• ESP Doubleneck Bass (????)
• Thor Bass 5-string fretless (2008)
• Thor Bass 6-string fretless (2010)

External links

• Official website