Disembowelment formed in Melbourne in November 1989 from the demise of a two-piece grind band Bacteria, featuring Renato Gallina on guitar and vocals, and Paul Mazziotta on drums.
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 song "Extracted Nails" was recorded in April 1991 at Double Tea Studios for a compilation on the German label Mangled Beyond Recognition, released the following year.
In 1993 Disembowelment released their debut studio album, Transcendence into the Peripheral,[1] which featured a slowly executed drumming style, accompanied by death metal vocals, chants and passages of dark ambience.
[2] Justin Donnelly of Metal Forge declared they were "the legendary unground [sic] Australian doom/grindcore/ambient act" and "often referred to as merely a doom band, the sort of music ... is actually far more than eclectic and broad sounding than simply labelling them to one particular genre".
The group released an EP, Ornamentation, and an album, Rite of Passage, to critical approval, notably Rolling Stone and Wired Magazine.
"In 2019, Renato Gallina, the founder behind Australian death/doom band, Disembowelment, felt a powerful urge to re-visit the track, Nightside of Eden, which was featured on their one and only album, 'Transcendence into The Peripheral'.
"[5]2020 saw the limited repressing of "Transcendence into the Peripheral" and the release of "Dusk / Deep Sensory Procession into Aural Fate" under Relapse Records, which combined Disembowelment's only EP and a remaster of their second demo.