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

DiGiorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal bands such as Death, Autopsy, Control Denied, Testament, Vintersorg, Iced Earth, and is a founding member of Sadus. He is widely renowned for his technical skills,^{[citation needed]} and he is one of the very few bass players in the metal scene who plays a fretless bass.^{[citation needed]} He is also a founding member of the jazz-band Dark Hall and is also the bass player for the Sebastian Bach band. Along with his bass duties in Sadus he also plays keyboards.

Within his genre, Steve DiGiorgio is respected for his playing skils.^{[citation needed]} He is noted for his ability to execute very fast 32nd notes with his plucking fingers, as opposed to using a pick.

Discography

• Sadus - D.T.P. (1986, 2003)
• Sadus - Certain Death (1987)
• Sadus - Illusions (1988)
• Sadus - The Wake of Severity (1989)
• Autopsy - Severed Survival (1989)
• Sadus - Swallowed in Black (1990)
• Autopsy - Fiend for Blood (1991)
• Death - Human (1991)
• Death - Fate: The Best of Death (1992)
• Sadus - A Vision of Misery (1992)
• Death - Individual Thought Patterns (1993)
• Sadus - Red Demo (1994)
• Dark Hall - Demo (1995)
• Sadus - Chronicles of Chaos (1997)
• 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)
• Scariot - Momentum Shift (2007)
• Various artists - Roadrunner United - Constitution Down (fretless bass), Annihilation by the Hands of God (fretless bass)
• Sebastian Bach - Angel Down (2007)

Equipment

DiGiorgio plays custom ESP basses, custom made for him. 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.^[1]

References

1. ^ (June 2007) Guitar World's Bass Guitar Magazine

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External links

• Official Website