Disco Doom

Disco Doom has existed for about 13 years and is based in Zurich, Switzerland. Currently they play as a trio - mainly two guitars and a drum, sometimes a bass or some keyboard. The core of the band are Gabriele De Mario (main singer, guitar) and Anita Rufer (guitar, bass, keys, vocs). Disco Doom describes the music they play as Adventure Rock. 

In the last three years, Disco Doom has released the albums Trux Reverb (2010/11), Dream Electric (2008) and the US-tour EP Green Exciter (2009).

In the same period they were invited by Built to Spill to open for them in Europe (6 weeks in 2008) and in the U.S. (during 3 month 2009). They also played some shows with Dinosaur Jr., Butthole Surfers and Lou Barlow and the Missing Men, and in great places like the Fillmore in San Francisco, Webster Hall in New York, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Echoplex in Los Angeles, Koko in London, Apolo in Barcelona, Showbox in Seattle, Rockefeller in Oslo, First Avenue in Minneapolis, Comodore Ballroom in Vancouver, Lee's Palace in Toronto, 40 Watt Club in Athens, and Maroquinerie in Paris.

In spring of 2011 Disco Doom played SXSW and toured  the west coast. In fall of 2011, they'll tour the US for a month and play some great festivals and club shows.

In 2004, Disco Doom received a Werkjahr from the Popkredit/City of Zurich. In 2010, the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia awarded them with an order for a composition.

About latest record Trux Reverb:

Trux Reverb is a guitar, a bass, a drum and a voice on a hard fiction road, playing this unique music totally stripped down to the bone. A roaring experimental percussive and sonic sound experience. 

After their US tour (opening band for 3 months for Built to Spill), Disco Doom went in the AVAST! Studios in Seattle/WA for five days in february 2010. Jason Albertini played the drums (Arcata/CA). He's known from his own project Helvetia and his earlier band Duster. Jim Roth (guitarist from Built To Spill) recorded the band and contributed on a pedal steel and piano track. The songs are mainly first and second takes - Anita, Gabriele and Jason mostly played live together in the studio and all was recorded on a 16-Track 2" tape machine.

The new record is released in Switzerland (2010 on Defer Rec/Irascible), the USA (2011 on the Static Cult Label/Stick Figure) and in Germany/Austria (2010 on Rakete Musik/Cargo).

Disco Doom presented Trux Reverb also this year at the SXSW festival in Austin TX.