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Steve Di Giorgio
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Di Giorgio performing with Testament in 2017
Background information
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Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
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OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textMusician
InstrumentTemplate:Pluralize from textBass guitar
Years active1984–present
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Websitestevedigiorgio.com

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Steve Di Giorgio (born November 7, 1967) is an American bassist. He is known for his work with numerous heavy metal bands including Sadus (of which he was a co-founder), Death, Testament, Megadeth, Sebastian Bach, Iced Earth, Autopsy, Obituary, Control Denied, Dragonlord and Charred Walls of the Damned. He has also performed on over 50 albums as a guest, session or full-time band musician.[1]

Career

Di Giorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal and death metal bands such as Death,[2] Autopsy,[3] Control Denied,[4] Ephel Duath,[5] Obscura,[6] Artension, Faust, Memorain, Painmuseum, Suicide Shift, Soen,[7] Vintersorg,[8] Dragonlord,[9] Iced Earth,[10] Sebastian Bach,[11] Obituary,[12] Megadeth,[13] and is a founding member of Sadus.[14] He is a founding member of the jazz band Dark Hall and has played bass in other bands such as Testament,[15][16] Futures End,[17] Synesis Absorption, Mythodea, Charred Walls of the Damned,[18] Anatomy of I,[19] Gone in April, and Spirits of Fire.[20] Along with his bass duties in Sadus, he also plays keyboards. In October 2019, he founded the fusion-world-metal group Quadvium with fellow fretless bass player Jeroen Paul Thesseling.[21][22][23][24] A year later, he formed the death metal supergroup Act of Denial.[25][26][27] In December 2025, he joined Obliveon as a session musician, taking over bass recording duties on their upcoming album.[28]

Musical style and influences

Within his genre, Di Giorgio is respected for his highly technical playing skills.[29][30][31][32] He is also credited with being the first bassist to bring fretless bass playing into the heavy/extreme metal genre, and normally plays bass by using his fingers, although he has been seen using a pick on certain songs. Di Giorgio's influences include Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, Geezer Butler, Steve Harris, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Billy Sheehan, Dave Pegg and Charles Meeks.[33][34] Di Giorgio explained the development of his playing style in 2017: "Working against what people consider comfortably normal, and swimming against the musical current from a young age has helped me stay out of the shadows as a bassist and as so many always still strive to keep it there. Fuck them."[35]

Personal life

Di Giorgio has been married for years,[36] and is the father of a daughter who was born in April 1994.[37][38][39] The family currently resides in Antioch, California.[40]

Equipment

Di Giorgio endorses Ibanez Guitars and primarily plays a number of different fretted and fretless BTB basses. He previously played 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's also played custom ESP basses, mostly 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.[41]

Di Giorgio's bass guitars
  • 4001 Custom Rickenbacker (1981)
  • Fully Custom Homemade Fender-Like Fretless (1991)[42]
  • 4001 Rickenbacker (1975)
  • Custom Carvin BB75F (1996)[42]
  • Custom Carvin BB75 (1999)
  • ESP – LTD F-205 (1999)
  • ESP Custom Forest 5-string Fretless (1999)[43]
  • ESP Doubleneck Bass[44]
  • Thor Bass Mjolnir 5-string fretless (2008),[45] since converted to be played with only 3 strings.
  • Thor Bass Mjolnir 6-string Fretless (2010)[45]
  • 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)
  • Ibanez SDGB1 Steve DiGiorgio Signature Bass (2023)

Discography

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