Artist description Described as "New Zealand's leading Gothic band" during the '90s. Disjecta Membra is Latin for "scattered fragments", although it can be interpreted in a number of ways.

Music Style Disjecta Membra's first album & subsequent live sound can be described as traditional guitar driven Gothic-Rock, with neo-Classical keyboards, baritone vocals, and a solid Rock-oriented rhythm section. More recent material (currently unavailable) is comparatively minimal & yet increasingly divergent, with prominent usage of acoustic instruments, and influences ranging from melodic folk, faux-Eastern rock,

Musical Influences Early material (available here for download) was strongly influenced by the Gothic Rock movement (Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Rozz's Christian Death, Fields of the Nephilim etc) & classic British Metal such as Iron Maiden & Black Sabbath. More recent material which the band is currently working with draws inspiration from artists such as Nick Cave, David Bowie, Swans, Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin, Brendan Perry/Dead Can Dance, SPK, Fetus Productions, Peter Murphy, Jordan Reyne, Death in June, Skeptics, Leonard Nimoy, The Drawing Room, Coil, Avotor, Scorn, Black Lung, Snog, Shinjuku Thief, and Celtic, Middle-Eastern & Medieval European Folk musics.

Similar Artists Compared in the past to Bauhaus, Banshees, Christian Death, Corpus Delecti, & Xymox.

Artist History Since 1994, based in Aotearoa [New Zealand] Disjecta Membra was a group formed by M. Rowland, who had an eventful but somewhat notoriously self-destructive musical career, which ultimately resulted in the band's demise after only one album, several publicly pronounced "curses", numerous ill-fated attempts to record a second album ["Sibylline Leaves"], and a string of former members & personal disasters which came to an end at Darkness Gathering, Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui, Aotearoa [NZ] September 2001 when a certain @$$hole finally began coming to his senses.

Group Members Among others, Michel Rowland is grateful for contributions to the Disjecta Membra from N. Green, "Moth-Mum" Tahata, M. Nicholls, S. Wood, R. McQueen, D. Thompson, D. Jones, Deonne, P. Kennedy, B. Cauchi, A. Murray, M. Collins, D. Burke, J. Tocker, C. Church, G. Nash [EJA!!], D. Whitehead, A. Scott, Paul T., S. Barnett, D. Lowndes, T. Martinovich, L. Poppelwell, H. Walker, B. Painter, K. Joy, A. Wallace, S. Newth, S. Pederson, D. Death, J. Just, S.S. MacIntyre, J. Sullivan, D. Pearson, O. Campell, A. Roadpunk, M. Hamill, M. Gallacher, D.J Nightmare, Justine S, R. Cypher, D. Khan, M. Goodwin, E. Wilson, A. Gar, A. Lyon, B. Dromgool, J. Bennett, J. Murphy, J. Reyne, P. Skoric, A. Mein Smith, Roxy, M. MacGregor-Reid, J. Interim, Louise J., R. Dench, J. Edwards, A. Porter, Hellasdottir, St. Nick, Rob Graves, Deus ex Machina, and above all the Trickster.

Instruments Mainly guitars, vox, bass, keys, samples, drum-machines etc. the usual...

Albums Achromaticia (HL09) - Heartland Records, 1997 + Sibylline Leaves (Unreleased '97-2001)

Press Reviews The Lamia's Song (AUS) - "Disjecta Membra may convince cynics that Goth has indeed risen again." Bats and Red Velvet Magazine (U.K.) - "an accomplished debut, at times showing the influences of Bauhaus and The Banshees...There are many pleasurable moments on this promising first album." Middle Pillar (USA) "Intense and very dark Australasian Goth, featuring a mix of styles. Guitar based with mainly baritone, male vocals, the songs are either disquieting, ala Corpus Delicti, or soar with guitar work and drum machines blazing. Synths fill out their sound with a dark ethereal feel." Listen.com (U.S.A) - "Vicious guitars screech like teeth dragging across a wrought iron fence. Unholy organs emit spiralling, ghastly drones. Rhythms rise and fall. Overlooking the proceedings, a dark male voice issues gloomy words." And so forth.

Additional Info Compilations: A Bouquet of Barbed Wire (Heartland), Dark Eyed and Starry They Were Vol.2 (Heartland), New Alternatives 4 (Nightbreed), Solid Goth Hits (Bizarre Beats), Eternal Chapters (Sacrament Radio), Under the Mountain (Mediatrix Publishing).

Location Wellington, N/A - New Zealand

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