Steve Di Giorgio | |
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Background information | |
Born |
Waukegan, Illinois, U.S. |
November 7, 1967
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 Di Giorgio (born November 7, 1967, Waukegan, Illinois) is an American musician of Italian descent.
Di Giorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal and death metal bands such as Death,Autopsy,Control Denied,Ephel Duath,Obscura, Artension, Faust, Memorain, Painmuseum, Suicide Shift, Soen,Vintersorg,Dragonlord,Iced Earth,Sebastian Bach,Obituary, and is a founding member of Sadus. He is a founding member of the jazz band Dark Hall and is currently the bass player for Futures End, Synesis Absorption, Mythodea, Charred Walls of the Damned, Anatomy of I and Testament. Along with his bass duties in Sadus he also plays keyboards.
Within his genre, Di Giorgio is respected for his playing skills.
Di Giorgio 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.