Steve Di Giorgio

Steve Di Giorgio
Di Giorgio performing with Death DTA in Manchester in March 2015
Background information
Born	(1967-11-07) November 7, 1967 Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
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, Gone in April
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,^[1] Autopsy,^[2] Control Denied,^[3] Ephel Duath,^[4] Obscura,^[5] Artension, Faust, Memorain, Painmuseum, Suicide Shift, Soen,^[6] Vintersorg,^[7] Dragonlord,^[8] Iced Earth,^[9] Sebastian Bach,^[10] Obituary,^[11] and is a founding member of Sadus.^[12] He is a founding member of the jazz band Dark Hall and is currently the bass player for Futures End,^[13] Synesis Absorption, Mythodea, Charred Walls of the Damned,^[14] Anatomy of I,^[15] Gone in April, and Testament.^[16][17] Along with his bass duties in Sadus he also plays keyboards.

Within his genre, Di Giorgio is respected for his highly technical playing skills.^{[18][19][20][21]} He is also widely credited with being the first bassist to bring fretless bass playing into the heavy/extreme metal genre. Di Giorgio has stated that his main influences as a bassist are Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, Geezer Butler, Steve Harris, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Billy Sheehan, Dave Pegg and Charles Meeks.^[22][23]

Di Giorgio is 6' 6 tall.

Equipment

Di Giorgio plays two custom Mjolnir basses by Thor Bass; a custom made 5-string fretless model which he has converted to a 3-string and a custom-built 6 string fretless. He 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.^[24]

Steve's bass guitars

• 4001 Custom Rickenbacker (1981)
• Fully Custom Homemade Fender-Like Fretless (1991)^[25]
• 4001 Rickenbacker (1975)
• Custom Carvin BB75F (1996)^[25]
• Custom Carvin BB75 (1999)
• ESP – LTD F-205 (1999)
• ESP Custom Forest 5-string Fretless (1999)^[26]
• ESP Doubleneck Bass^[27]
• Thor Bass Mjolnir 5-string fretless (2008),^[28] since converted to be played with only 3 strings.
• Thor Bass Mjolnir 6-string Fretless (2010)^[28]
• Thor Bass Freyja 7-string Fretted (2013)
• 4003W Rickenbacker modified with a fretless ebony fretboard by Larry Davis (2014)
• Ibanez BTB1605E with a fretless neck (2016)

Discography

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