Disembowelment is evisceration, or the removing of vital organs, usually from the abdomen. The results are invariably fatal. It has historically been used as a form of capital punishment.
In England, the punishment of being "hanged, drawn, and quartered" referred to the practice of hanging a man from the neck (but not until dead), disemboweling him, and dividing the body into pieces. Women, for modesty's sake, were instead burned alive. (In France, the punishment of being "drawn" refers to being conveyed to the place of execution.)
During the Spanish Inquisition, the method of disembowelment was to cut a small hole in the victim's gut. The intestines are then drawn out slowly and carefully. The executioners kept the victim alive as long as possible during the process.
In Japan, disembowelment also formed part of the method of execution of samurai. In killing themselves by this method, they were deemed to be free from the dishonor resulting from their crimes. The most common form of disembowelment was referred to in Japanese as seppuku (where the term "hara-kiri" is regarded as insulting), involving two cuts across the abdomen, sometimes followed by beheading. In the English language, hara-kiri and seppuku are synonyms, and hara-kiri is by far the more common usage.
Disembowelment called it quits after one album, with two of its members (Renato Gallina and Matt Skarajew) leaving to form the ethno-ambient consort, Trial of the Bow.
Though Disembowelment was nominally a doom death band, many of their musical endeavors have more in common with the drifting, dreamlike reverie of Trial of the Bows Ornamentation EP than, say, Paradise Lost.
But in Disembowelment's sound you can hear two separate paths emerging, both of which were further explored by other bands.
Melbourne, Australia's dark devotees of devastating doom DISEMBOWELMENT deliver the ultimate in transcendental doom with their long-awaited, self-titled discography, Disembowlement.
Listening to this complete DISEMBOWELMENT discography is realistically comparable to having 5,000-ton granite slabs dropped on your head from a height of several miles!
After DISEMBOWELMENT has musically crushed the body, they lift the soul upward with the unorthodox fusion of ambience and atmosphere.
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