Disarmonia Mundi

Disarmonia Mundi is an Italian melodic death metal band from Avigliana. The project is the brainchild of producer and multi-instrumentalist Ettore Rigotti and is mainly known for featuring Soilwork's vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid as guest vocalist on several albums. After releasing two albums under Scarlet Records, they published all further work under their own record label, Coroner Records.

Disarmonia Mundi was founded by Ettore Rigotti in 1999. The band went through several line-up changes before recording their debut album, Nebularium. The album was completely self-produced by Ettore in his home studio. The response to the album allowed the band to sign a contract with Self for Italian distribution and with Cd-Maximum for distribution in Russia. Line-up problems prevented live performances to support Nebularium and slowed down the recording the forthcoming album.

The only people remaining from the former line-up, Ettore Rigotti and Mirco Andreis, were joined by newcomer Claudio Ravinale. The resulting promo helped Disarmonia Mundi attain a recording contract with Scarlet Records.

Ettore got in contact with Soilwork front man Björn "Speed" Strid. What started out as a guest appearance on a track for the forthcoming album, Fragments of D-Generation,^[1] turned into Strid performing as guest vocalist on most songs on the album. Fragments of D-Generation was met with positive feedback.^[2][3] While Strid returned to work on Soilwork's Stabbing the Drama, Ettore and Claudio began composing the music and lyrics for their third album.

While Ettore and Claudio worked on the new record, Mirco left the band to focus on his career as a movie director^[4]. The remaining members tracked most of the new album in three weeks. The band remained a duo for the recording of Mind Tricks while having Strid as guest again on vocals,^[5] splitting them equally with Claudio, with Ettore contributing clean vocals as well. During the recording, ex-member Mirco shot a video for the band's single "Celestial Furnace".

The new album, The Isolation Game, was released 9 December 2009. Strid performed guest vocals on a few songs while the majority of the harsh vocals were handled by Claudio. Guitarist Olof Mörck of Nightrage and Amaranthe performed a guest solo on one song.^[6]

On 12 November 2008 the band announced on their MySpace: "We have finished the pre-production of our forthcoming fourth album entitled "The Isolation Game" scheduled for an early spring release. News about the label for this album will be revealed very soon." The label was later revealed to be Coroner Records; a new record label based out of Italy. The recordings took place at Ettore Rigotti's "The Metal House" studios in Italy. Björn "Speed" Strid (Soilwork, Terror 2000) recorded vocals for a few songs on The Isolation Game. Much like on Mind Tricks, The Isolation Game features more singing from Ettore and Claudio. Upon its release, The Isolation Game received positive, if lukewarm reviews, with one critic commenting "however great an example of Swedish-style melodic death metal this is, it doesn't do anything that we haven't heard before".^[7]

Prior to the release of The Isolation Game, Disarmonia Mundi released a remastered edition of their debut album, Nebularium, in double disc packaging, with the second disc containing six songs that were b-sides to album recording sessions. The second disc was called The Restless Memoirs EP. The re-release package was published by Coroner Records on 26 June 2009.

On 10 November 2011, Disarmonia Mundi announced on their Myspace page that they had formed a new band with NeroArgento and the American professional skateboarder Elliot Sloan, called The Stranded.^[8] On 2 July 2012 The Stranded released the album Survivalism Boulevard on Coroner Records; this album has been met with a general positive feedback.

The band began writing their fifth album in September 2012.^[9] On 5 February 2015, the band announced on their Facebook page that they were mastering the album which was still untitled.^[10]

Following the 16 March 2015, announcement, the band's next album, Cold Inferno, was released on 9 June 2015.^[11] Like on The Isolation Game, the majority of vocals on Cold Inferno were handled by Claudio, with Ettore providing clean vocals, and Speed appearing as guest on a couple of tracks, while all the instrumental parts were recorded and produced by Ettore at The Metal House studio.

According to an interview with Ettore Rigotti, the next album would be released within less than two years.^{[citation needed]} An Instagram post, dated 11 January 2020, implied the release date would be sometime within the year, but did not specify.^[12] No album was released during this period however.

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Besides providing vocals for Disarmonia Mundi, Claudio has been active since 2005 with the horror metal band 5 Star Grave, releasing three albums so far: Corpse Breed Syndrome (self-produced, 2008), Drugstore Hell (Massacre Records, 2012), and Drugstore Hell (Sliptrick Records, 2017).

In late 2013, Claudio and producer and multi-instrumentalist NeroArgento started working on a new industrial metal project called The Silverblack. They released their self-titled debut album in 2014 via AExeron Media / FiXT divided into five monthly episodes of two songs each. The second album, The Grand Turmoil, was released by Sliptrick Records in autumn 2015, while in 2018 the band completed the production of their third album, Rain On A Wedding Day, that was released via DarkTunes Music Group on 30 November 2018. The Silverblack released their fourth album, Prototype 6:17, on 21 November 2019. The Silverblack continued the partnership with DarkTunes Music Group and released their fifth album, "Judgment", on June 2022. The style on this album is more aggressive than on previous records while the title track also features a collaboration with former Fear Factory singer Burton C. Bell. The album receives positive feedback and praise from both media and fans. Videos were shot for the tracks "Judgment", "Chasing Ghosts" and "Nocturne".

Claudio unveiled another project on 31 October 2020, called Infernalizer. This is the nickname he's also been using for himself on the last The Silverblack records. the new band is more oriented towards horror and an 80s metal sound. A video was released for the song "Leaving So Soon?", with Claudio showcasing a monster-like horror make-up. Their first album, The Ugly Truth, was released in February 2021 by Rockshots Records. A video was shot for the lead single "Leave A Scar". Producer NeroArgento plays the instruments on all songs of the album. In October 2023, Infernalizer released their second album, After Dark, with a more gothic metal sound. Videos were shot for the songs "What Did You Expect?", "What We Do In The Shadows" and "Falling In Slow Motion". The album was again produced by NeroArgento and released by Rockshots Records.

• Ettore Rigotti − guitars, drums, keyboards, clean vocals (1999–present) bass (2005–present)
• Claudio Ravinale − extreme vocals, lyrics (2004–present)

• Björn "Speed" Strid − vocals

• Mirco Andreis − bass guitar (1999–2005)
• Benny Bianco Chinto − vocals, lyrics (1999–2002)
• Simone Palermiti − guitar, songwriting (1999–2002)
• Federico Cagliero − guitar, songwriting (2001)

Timeline

• Nebularium (2001)
• Fragments of D-Generation (2004)
• Mind Tricks (2006)
• The Isolation Game (2009)
• Cold Inferno (2015)

• Nebularium + The Restless Memoirs (EP, 2009)
• "Perdition Haze" (single, 2009)
• Princess Ghibli (split, 2011)
• Princess Ghibli 2 (split, 2012)
• Love (Feelingless) (feature, 2022)
• Oathbreaker (single, 2024)
• Adrift Among Insignificant Strangers (single, 2025)

• "Red Clouds" from Fragments of D-Generation
• "Celestial Furnace" from Mind Tricks

• Official Disarmonia Mundi website