Disembowelment "Transcendence Into the Peripheral"

Disembowelment, often styled as diSEMBOWELMENT, was an Australian death-doom band that formed in November 1989 featuring Renato Gallina on guitar and vocals, and Paul Mazziotta on drums.

Disembowelment formed in Melbourne in November 1989 out of the ashes of a two-piece grind band Bacteria, featuring Renato Gallina on guitar and vocals, and Paul Mazziotta on drums. With the help of Dean Ruprich from Melbourne death/grind band Necrotomy providing session bass guitar, 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 their symphonic, heavily distorted style. They are often credited with spawning the funeral doom movement that developed years later.

Gallina and Skarajew formed a folk/ambient band called Trial of the Bow during their time in Disembowelment, which is currently active.

Transcendence Into the Peripheral is the first full-length album by the Australian death-doom band Disembowelment. The album was originally released in 1993. In 2005, this album was included in its entirety as part of a double CD of all the band's recorded material.


Track 7 from this album (Cerulean Transience of All My Imagined Shores) is also the inspiration for the name of an experimental/psychedelic ambient music project.

Recorded during winter and spring of 1992 at Toybox Studios (Northcote, Melbourne).

Produced by Disembowelment.