Davide Tiso is a guitarist

Guitarist

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, composer

Composer

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 and multi-instrumentalist. He originates from Padova, in Italy

Italy

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, but currently resides in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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. He is a member of extreme metal band Ephel Duath

Ephel Duath (band)

Ephel Duath is an Italian progressive metal band, formed in 1998 in Padova, Italy. They have had a constantly changing line-up with guitarist and songwriter Davide Tiso, being the only original member. To date, they have released one demo, four studio albums, and two remix albums...

, a band he started in 1998.

Outside of Ephel Duath, he has recorded with The Karyn Crisis Band (of whom the two are married) and with guitarist Eraldo Bernocchi

Eraldo Bernocchi

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 on the Parched project, releasing a CD of music of long, barren, pensive, delicate, touching, harrowing road open to only those who know what they should say, yet decide to mutter no word at all. He more recently recorded as a project called 'Manuscripts Don't Burn', a solo project using material written from the Karyn Crisis Band. as well as collaborating with Karyn on an Aborym

Aborym

Aborym is an Italian/Norwegian industrial black metal band, initially hailing from Taranto, Apulia, in Italy. The band has described their music as "alien-black-hard/industrial", whilst Allmusic described them as playing "a truly original brand of futuristic black metal [with] jagged samples,...

 album. Davide is to continue writing and recording with Ephel Duath in 2012 as a complete band, after signing the band with Agonia Records.

Discography

with Ephel Duath

Demo

• Opera
  Rephormula
  Phormula is the full-length debut studio album by the Italian band Ephel Duath. Originally released through Code666 label in early 2000, the album was reissued two years later by Earache's sub-label Elitist...
  
   (1998)

Studio albums

• Phormula
  Rephormula
  Phormula is the full-length debut studio album by the Italian band Ephel Duath. Originally released through Code666 label in early 2000, the album was reissued two years later by Earache's sub-label Elitist...
  
   (2000)
• Rephormula
  Rephormula
  Phormula is the full-length debut studio album by the Italian band Ephel Duath. Originally released through Code666 label in early 2000, the album was reissued two years later by Earache's sub-label Elitist...
  
   (2002)
• The Painter's Palette
  The Painter's Palette
  The Painter's Palette is the second album by Italian avant-garde metal / Jazz band Ephel Duath.-Track listing:# "The Passage " - 4:11# "The Unpoetic Circle " - 4:54# "Labyrinthine " - 5:21...
  
   (2003)
• Pain Necessary to Know
  Pain Necessary to Know
  Pain Necessary to Know is the third studio album by the Italian avant-garde metal band Ephel Duath.-Track listing:# "New Disorder" – 5:01# "Vector " – 4:15# "Pleonasm" – 2:31# "Few Stars, No Refrain And A Cigarette" – 3:43...
  
   (2005)
• Through My Dog's Eyes
  Through My Dog's Eyes
  Through My Dog's Eyes is the fourth studio album by the Italian avant-garde metal band Ephel Duath. The album is based around a concept thought up by guitarist and founding member Davide Tiso, in which the whole album is from the viewpoint of a dog. The album's artwork is done by Seldon Hunt, who...
  
   (2009)

Remix albums

• Pain Remixes the Known (2007, electro-dub version of "Pain Necessary To Know" produced by Eraldo Bernocchi with Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari)

with Parched

• Arc (2009)

with Manuscripts Don't Burn

• The Breathing House (2010)

Other appearances

• Sigillum S - 23/20 (2007)