NEW ALBUM (as of November 2015) : 'Poison Gown' NOW AVAILABLE !!! For Digital Download and Streaming via : http://disemballerinapdx.bandcamp.com Disemballerina’s core commiserated and lit their first floor candles in 2009 with a friendship sparked between guitarist Ayla Holland and violist/harpist Myles Donovan. Veterans of many louder bands over the years in the D.I.Y. Metal scene on both coasts, the two bonded over a shared love of chamber music, funeral doom and ritualistic ceremony as well as a mutual estrangement in their participating subcultures due to being out, freakish and queer. Originally a 3 piece joined by cellist Melissa Collins, the band has gone through a number of other string players over the years, previously collaborating with Lost Lockets violinist Fiona Petra, cellist Celeste Nguyen (née Vieira), viola player Marit Schmidt of Vradiazei, and currently, cellist Jennifer Christensen (of Sadhaka/Møllehøj). Disemballerina composed an intro for thrash metal band Order of The Gash on their last LP, and has played shows at locations as varied as abandoned train cars, warehouses and outdoor gazebos. They are consistently booked as the acoustic “calm before the storm” at Metal bar shows. Based out of Portland, OR; they have acquired an international ‘KVLT’ fan-base and draw instrumental inspiration from themes such as datura poisoning, nursing home dementia, bulls impaling their madators, saturn returning, an herbal combination that made graverobbing possible during times of the plague, carpathia romanticized as both a location and source of mental disassociation, playing a disgusting crone in dungeons and dragons, falling out of destructive love, gender roles explored in some of the later Oz books, and gay 9 year olds committing suicide. After a single-track demo (duo) recording of the song 'Sundowning' was self-released in 2012, their first full-length album entitled 'Undertaker' is finally out (in digital form, via bandcamp.com), after a full four years since their last full-length (Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.