Lustmord
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Brian Williams is a British electronic music
ian often credited for creating the dark ambient
genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord.
in 1982. Lustmord has extracted field recordings made in crypt
s, cave
s, and slaughterhouse
s, and combined it with occasional ritualistic incantations and Tibet
an horns. His treatments of acoustic phenomena encased in digitally expanded bass rumbles have a dark ambient quality. Some of Lustmord's most notable collaborations include Robert Rich
on the critically acclaimed "Stalker", Jarboe
, John Balance
of Coil
, Monte Cazazza
, Clock DVA
, Chris & Cosey, Paul Haslinger
and experimental sludge
group The Melvins
on "Pigs Of The Roman Empire".
Williams released the album "Heresy", considered a milestone of the genre of dark ambient, in 1990. Williams has contributed to 44 Hollywood film soundtracks as Music Sound designer and occasionally as Additional Composer, most notably on The Crow and Underworld.
Around 1999, Lustmord was also involved with the video game Planescape: Torment
- his work eventually went unused when the project changed direction. He provided music and sound design for a variety of other projects since, such as Far Cry Instincts
, Underworld
or NVIDIA demos
, many of which include collaborations with Paul Haslinger
.
Lustmord worked on Tool
's DVD singles and has remixed versions of "Schism
" and "Parabola
" which were released on December 20, 2005. Lustmord also contributed to Tool's 2006 album 10,000 Days
with the atmospheric storm sounds on the title track, "10,000 Days". He later worked again with Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan
, collaborating on Keenan's project Puscifer
debut album "V" is for Vagina, as well as providing several remixes for "V" is for Viagra. The Remixes. Lustmord eventually generated a collection of dub
remixes of several '... Vagina' tracks, known as "D" Is for Dubby - The Lustmord Dub Mixes
. The nine track LP was released as a digital download on 17 October 2008, available directly from the Puscifer website. He also did some additional music including the track "The Western Approaches" feat. Wes Borland
on guitar for the documentary Blood Into Wine
.
Lustmord appeared live for the first time in 25 years as part of the high mass observance by the Church of Satan
. The ceremony took place on June 6, 2006 (6-6-06). A recording of the performance entitled "Rising" was released.
Lustmord released the album [ O T H E R ] on California based label Hydra Head Records
in July 2008. It features guest appearances by Adam Jones
, King Buzzo and Aaron Turner
.
Lustmord performed for the second time in 29 years at Unsound Festival
Krakow on October 22, 2010.
Lustmord performed at Art's Birthday celebration (initiated by Robert Filliou
) at Södra Teatern in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 15, 2011. He performed at the Unsound Festival
in New York
for the first time on April 9 and 10, 2011.
Lustmord's first performance in the Netherlands will be in September 2011 at the Incubate Festival
.
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
ian often credited for creating the dark ambient
Dark ambient
Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology...
genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord.
History
Williams started recording as Lustmord in 1980 before joining SPKSPK (band)
SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer.-History:...
in 1982. Lustmord has extracted field recordings made in crypt
Crypt
In architecture, a crypt is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault possibly containing sarcophagi, coffins or relics....
s, cave
Cave
A cave or cavern is a natural underground space large enough for a human to enter. The term applies to natural cavities some part of which is in total darkness. The word cave also includes smaller spaces like rock shelters, sea caves, and grottos.Speleology is the science of exploration and study...
s, and slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse
A slaughterhouse or abattoir is a facility where animals are killed for consumption as food products.Approximately 45-50% of the animal can be turned into edible products...
s, and combined it with occasional ritualistic incantations and Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
an horns. His treatments of acoustic phenomena encased in digitally expanded bass rumbles have a dark ambient quality. Some of Lustmord's most notable collaborations include Robert Rich
Robert Rich (musician)
Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 30 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, New Age, and even IDM music.-Early life:At an early age he thought he disliked music...
on the critically acclaimed "Stalker", Jarboe
Jarboe
Jarboe is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist.Jarboe is a solo artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the New York City based group Swans. With founder Michael Gira, the duo was the core of Swans until the group broke up in 1998...
, John Balance
John Balance
John Balance , born in Mansfield, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil, along with his partner Peter Christopherson...
of Coil
Coil (band)
Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...
, Monte Cazazza
Monte Cazazza
Monte Cazazza is an American artist and composer best known for his seminal role in helping shape the early landscape of industrial music through recordings with the London-based Industrial Records in the mid-1970s.-Career:...
, Clock DVA
Clock DVA
Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess'...
, Chris & Cosey, Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger is an Austrian-born composer and musician currently based in Los Angeles, California.- Life and career :...
and experimental sludge
Sludge metal
Sludge metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that melds elements of doom metal and hardcore punk, and sometimes incorporates influences from southern rock, stoner rock and grunge. Sludge metal is typically abrasive; often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted instruments and sharply contrasting...
group The Melvins
The Melvins
The Melvins are an American band that formed in 1983. They usually perform as a trio, but in recent years have performed as a four piece with two drummers. Since 1984, singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover have been the band's constant members...
on "Pigs Of The Roman Empire".
Williams released the album "Heresy", considered a milestone of the genre of dark ambient, in 1990. Williams has contributed to 44 Hollywood film soundtracks as Music Sound designer and occasionally as Additional Composer, most notably on The Crow and Underworld.
Around 1999, Lustmord was also involved with the video game Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment is a computer role-playing game developed for Windows by Black Isle Studios and released on December 12, 1999 by Interplay Entertainment. It takes place in Planescape, an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy campaign setting...
- his work eventually went unused when the project changed direction. He provided music and sound design for a variety of other projects since, such as Far Cry Instincts
Far Cry Instincts
Far Cry Instincts is a video game developed and published by Ubisoft for Xbox that was released on September 27, 2005. A remake of the original PC version, Instincts is less open-ended and more linear, due to the console's reduced processing power which prevents the full rendering of the PC...
, Underworld
Underworld (2003 film)
Underworld is a 2003 action-horror film about the secret history of Vampires and Lycans . It is the first installment in the Underworld series. The main plot revolves around Selene , a vampire who is a Death Dealer hunting Lycans...
or NVIDIA demos
NVIDIA Demos
In order to showcase the abilities of GeForce chipsets, Nvidia creates technology demos that render in real-time on the chipsets in question . This listing attempts to mention recent, more notable releases.-Dawn:...
, many of which include collaborations with Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger is an Austrian-born composer and musician currently based in Los Angeles, California.- Life and career :...
.
Lustmord worked on Tool
Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up has included drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour...
's DVD singles and has remixed versions of "Schism
Schism (song)
"Schism" is a song by American rock band Tool. It was the first single and music video from their third full-length album, Lateralus. In 2002, Tool won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song....
" and "Parabola
Parabola (song)
"Parabola" is a song by the American rock band Tool, the song was released as the second single from their third studio album Lateralus. It was released in 2002 as a promo only, however, on December 20, 2005, the single was re-released, which includes the song and a DVD containing the music video...
" which were released on December 20, 2005. Lustmord also contributed to Tool's 2006 album 10,000 Days
10,000 Days
10,000 Days is the Grammy Award-winning fourth studio album by American rock band Tool. The album was released on April 28, 2006 in parts of Europe, April 29 in Australia, May 1 in the United Kingdom, and May 2 in North America...
with the atmospheric storm sounds on the title track, "10,000 Days". He later worked again with Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor. Originally from Ohio, Keenan spent his high school and college years in Michigan. After serving in the Army in the early 1980s, he attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids...
, collaborating on Keenan's project Puscifer
Puscifer
Puscifer is a side project of Maynard James Keenan from the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle. As Keenan is the only permanent member and he considers the project to be his "creative subconscious", Puscifer could also be considered a pseudonym for his solo work....
debut album "V" is for Vagina, as well as providing several remixes for "V" is for Viagra. The Remixes. Lustmord eventually generated a collection of dub
Dub music
Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...
remixes of several '... Vagina' tracks, known as "D" Is for Dubby - The Lustmord Dub Mixes
"D" Is for Dubby - The Lustmord Dub Mixes
"D" is For Dubby – The Lustmord Dub Mixes is a remix album by Puscifer, a side project of Maynard James Keenan, which was released as a digital download on 17 October 2008...
. The nine track LP was released as a digital download on 17 October 2008, available directly from the Puscifer website. He also did some additional music including the track "The Western Approaches" feat. Wes Borland
Wes Borland
Wesley Louden Borland is an American musician and artist, best known as the guitarist for the band Limp Bizkit. He has been in several other bands as well including: Black Light Burns, The Damning Well, Goatslayer, Big Dumb Face, and Combichrist...
on guitar for the documentary Blood Into Wine
Blood into Wine
Blood into Wine is a documentary about the Northern Arizona wine industry focusing on Maynard James Keenan and Eric Glomski and their Caduceus brand wine. It was released in February 2010 theatrically and on DVD and Blu-ray in September 2010....
.
Lustmord appeared live for the first time in 25 years as part of the high mass observance by the Church of Satan
Church of Satan
The Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the acceptance of the carnal self, as articulated in The Satanic Bible, written in 1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey.- History :...
. The ceremony took place on June 6, 2006 (6-6-06). A recording of the performance entitled "Rising" was released.
Lustmord released the album [ O T H E R ] on California based label Hydra Head Records
Hydra Head Records
Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993...
in July 2008. It features guest appearances by Adam Jones
Adam Jones (musician)
Adam Thomas Jones is a three time Grammy Award-winning Welsh-American musician and visual artist, best known for his position as the guitarist for Grammy-Award winning band Tool. Jones has been rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by the Rolling Stone and placed 9th in Guitar World's Top...
, King Buzzo and Aaron Turner
Aaron Turner
Aaron Turner is a musician, singer, graphic artist, and founder of label Hydra Head Records. He is most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist for the post-metal band Isis, while also participating in several other bands and projects such as Old Man Gloom and Lotus Eaters.Though raised...
.
Lustmord performed for the second time in 29 years at Unsound Festival
Unsound festival
Unsound Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Kraków, Poland, dealing with evolving and mutating forms of music, as well as related visual arts....
Krakow on October 22, 2010.
Lustmord performed at Art's Birthday celebration (initiated by Robert Filliou
Robert Filliou
Robert Filliou was a French Fluxus artist, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro....
) at Södra Teatern in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 15, 2011. He performed at the Unsound Festival
Unsound festival
Unsound Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Kraków, Poland, dealing with evolving and mutating forms of music, as well as related visual arts....
in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
for the first time on April 9 and 10, 2011.
Lustmord's first performance in the Netherlands will be in September 2011 at the Incubate Festival
Incubate (festival)
Incubate is a multidisciplinary arts festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands. On June 16, the festival changed it name into Incubate after a request by the Austin, US based festival SXSW to change its name. Between 2005 and 2008 the festival was called ZXZW....
.
Discography
- 1981 - Lustmørd - Sterile RecordsSterile RecordsThe Sterile Records record label was formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions. With a background in the mail art networks, their intention was to create and promote a new form of music...
SR 3 - 1982 - Lustmordekay - Sterile Records cassette SRC 6
- 1984 - Paradise Disowned
- 1984 - CTI (with Chris & Cosey)
- 1985 - Vhutemas / Arechetypi (with Graeme RevellGraeme RevellGraeme Revell is a New Zealand film score composer.Revell attended Auckland Grammar School, where he finished his final year in 7A...
) - 1990 - HeresyHeresy (album)Heresy is an album released in 1990 by the dark ambient musician Lustmord. A remastered version was made in 2004.- Track listings :#Heresy Part I #Heresy Part II #Heresy Part III #Heresy Part IV #Heresy Part V...
- 1991 - A Document Of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimentation
- 1992 - The Monstrous Soul
- 1992 - Psychological Warfare Technology Systems (as Terror Against Terror)
- 1993 - Crash Injury Trauma (as Isolrubin BK)
- 1994 - The Place Where the Black Stars HangThe Place Where the Black Stars HangThe Place Where The Black Stars Hang is the fourth album by British ambient musician Lustmord.- Track listing :# "Sol Om On/Aldebaran of the Hyades/Dark Companion/Metastatic Resonance/Dog Star Descends" - 75:48- Notes :...
- 1994 - Trans Plutonian Transmissions (as AreciboArecibo ObservatoryThe Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope near the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico. It is operated by SRI International under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation...
) - 1995 - StalkerStalker (album)Stalker is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Robert Rich and B.Lustmord . It was inspired by the 1979 film of the same name by Andrei Tarkovsky....
(with Robert RichRobert Rich (musician)Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 30 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, New Age, and even IDM music.-Early life:At an early age he thought he disliked music...
) - 1996 - Strange Attractor / Black Star
- 1997 - Lustmord vs. Metal Beast (with Shad T. Scott)
- 2000 - Purifying Fire
- 2001 - Metavoid (NexteraNexteraNextera is a pioneering independent Czech record label, founded in Prague in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in dance, ambient and electronic music. It was founded by Kristian Kotarac.- Artists :* Clock DVA* The Hafler Trio...
) - 2002 - Law Of The Battle Of Conquest (with HecateHecate (artist)Hecate is an American/Austrian experimental industrial and breakcore musician who lives in Berlin, Germany. She takes her name from the Greek goddess of sorcery Hecate. She uses sex as a major topic in her music, such as in the tracks "Hecate Jacks Off The Jackal" and "The Magick Of Female...
) - 2002 - ZoetropeZoetrope (album)Zoetrope is a CD released in 2002 by the dark ambient musician Lustmord released under the record label Nextera. The CD is a soundtrack to the experimental psychological horror film of the same name.- Track listing :1. Main Title/Infinite Space 7:17...
(Nextera) - 2004 - Carbon/Core
- 2004 - Pigs Of The Roman EmpirePigs of the Roman EmpirePigs of the Roman Empire is an album by Melvins and Lustmord, which was released in 2004 through Ipecac Recordings. There are two untitled songs on track 9.-Track listing:#"III" – 3:00#"The Bloated Pope" – 3:45#"Toadi Acceleratio" – 3:25...
(with Melvins) - 2006 - Rising (live album)
- 2007 - Juggernaut (with King Buzzo)
- 2008 - [ O T H E R ]
- 2008 - "D" is for Dubby - The Lustmord Dub Mixes"D" Is for Dubby - The Lustmord Dub Mixes"D" is For Dubby – The Lustmord Dub Mixes is a remix album by Puscifer, a side project of Maynard James Keenan, which was released as a digital download on 17 October 2008...
- 2009 - [ THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH ]
- 2009 - [ T R A N S M U T E D ]
- 2009 - [ B E Y O N D ]
- 2009 - [ O T H E R D U B ]
- 2010 - Heretic
- 2011 - Songs of Gods and Demons
- 2011 - The Word As Power (work in progress)