Steve DiGiorgio

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 and is a founding member of Sadus. He is widely renowned for his technical skills, and he is one of the very few bass players in the metal scene who plays a fretless bass. He is also a founding member of the jazz-band Dark Hall and was also the bass player for the Futures End band. 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.

Steve is currently working on a new album Memoirs of a Broken Man with his new band Futures End which will be released in late Summer 2009 with Fred Marshall and Marc Pattison. He is also working with Richard Christy's new project Charred Walls of the Damned, a band with Tim Owens and Jason Suecof as well.

Steve DiGiorgio

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)
• Control Denied - When Man And Machine Collide (2009/10)
• Charred Walls of the Damned - TBA (2009/10)

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)
• Funeral - Demo (2009, recorded in 1995)

Compilations:

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

Videography

Clips:

Death - Lack of Comprehension (1991)

Death - The Philosopher (1993)

Equipment

DiGiorgio 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 has also been seen playing Conklin and Tobias basses in the past. 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 (200?)