"Disembowelment (often stylized as diSEMBOWELMENT) formed in Melbourne in November 1989 out of the ashes of two-piece grind band 'Bacteria'. Featuring Renatao Gallina on guitar and vocals, Paul Mazziotta on drums, and the session help of Dean Ruprich (from the band 'Necrotomy') on bass, the band released its first demo "Mourning September" in September 1990.
Disembowelment played a very slow form of doom with occasional bursts of great speed that relied equally on the atmospheric effects of droning guitars and constant riffing. The band was known for its atmospheric chanting, slow riffs and spiritual dark elements present in a symphonic, heavily distorted style. They are often credited as a key influence on the funeral doom movement that developed years later.
In 1991 Jason Kells joined the band on lead guitar. The song "Extracted Nails" was recorded in April 1991 at Double Tea Studios for a compilation on the German label 'Mangled Beyond Recognition'. The compilation featured Therion, God Macabre, Rottrevore, Cadaver, Crematory, Pan.Thy.Monium, Cenotaph, and Hydr Hydr. On 3-4 August 1991 the band went back to Double Tea studios to record their 2nd demo, "Deep Sensory Perception Into Aural Fate". This recording marked a big step forward in the maturity of the songwriting, performance, and overall production. The demo sparked the interest of Relapse Records, who signed them and released the "Dusk" EP in 1992 (it was an edited version of the demo, which omitted the linking piece of music between the two tracks). It also included the first recorded version of "Cerulean Transience Of All My Imagined Shores", a third track not featured on the earlier demo.
At the end of 1991 Matthew Skarajew (ex 'Sanctum', lead guitar) had joined the group on bass, and they recorded "Cerulean Transience Of All My Imagined Shores" the following year. In 1993 Disembowelment released their debut studio album, "Transcendence Into The Peripheral", which featured a slowly executed drumming style accompanied by death metal vocals, chants, and passages of dark ambience. Disembowelment split up after the album's release. Prior to breaking up, they had mentioned the possibility of a one-off live show that "would be an event, a unique concert". However it never happened. At the time they had rehearsed and prepared five cover versions for a potential EP. This featured Mazziotta on drums, Skarajew on guitars, and Gallina on vocals.
Gallina and Skarajew continued working together in the ethno-ambient act, 'Trial of the Bow', which Skarajew had initiated during his time in Disembowelment. The group released an EP, "Ornamentation", and an album, "Rite of Passage", to critical approval. From 2004 Skarajew and Mazziotta formed a grind band, 'Pulgar'. A related band, 'd.USK', formed in 2010 with original Disembowelment members Skarajew and Mazziotta, and played some of their former group's material as a live band. In late 2011 'd.USK' split and re-emerged under the name 'Inverloch'."
