Lustmord

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Name = Lustmord


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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Brian Williams
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Genre = dark ambient
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Years_active = 1980-now
Label = Hydra Head Records
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URL = http://www.lustmord.com/
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:"Lustmord is also a German and Swedish word that means lust murder."

Brian "Lustmord" Williams is a Welsh musician often credited for creating the dark ambient genre.

History

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format=OggWilliams started recording as Lustmord in 1980 before joining SPK in 1982. Lustmord has extracted field recordings made in crypts, caves, and slaughterhouses, and combined it with occasional ritualistic incantations and Tibetan 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.

Lustmord is known to use many image-to-sound techniques. For example, when "A Light That Is Darkness" is run through a spectrograph, it reveals several demonic faces.

Williams has contributed to 44 Hollywood film soundtracks as Music Sound designer and occasionally as Additional Composer, most notably on The Crow and Underworld.

Lustmord worked on Tool's DVD singles and has remixed versions of Schism and Parabola which were released 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'. He is currently working on new Puscifer material.

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). ["Lustmord Rising", June 26, 2006. http://www.toolband.com/news/news_archive.php] A recording of the performance entitled "Rising" was released.

Lustmord releases his latest album " [ O T H E R ] " on California based label Hydra Head Records in July 2008. Featuring guest appearances by Adam Jones, King Buzzo and Aaron Turner.

Discography

* 1981 - Lustmørd Sterile Records SR 3
* 1982 - Lustmordekay Sterile Records cassette SRC 6
* 1984 - Paradise Disowned
* 1990 - Heresy
* 1991 - A Document Of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimentation
* 1992 - The Monstrous Soul
* 1993 - Crash Injury Trauma (As Isolrubin BK)
* 1994 - The Place Where The Black Stars Hang
* 1994 - Trans Plutonian Transmissions (As Arecibo)
* 1995 - Stalker (With Robert Rich)
* 1996 - Strange Attractor / Black Star
* 1997 - Lustmord vs. Metal Beast (With Shad T. Scott)
* 2000 - Purifying Fire
* 2001 - Metavoid (Nextera)
* 2002 - Law Of The Battle Of Conquest (With Hecate)
* 2002 - Zoetrope (Nextera)
* 2004 - Carbon/Core
* 2004 - Pigs Of The Roman Empire (With Melvins)
* 2006 - Rising
* 2007 - Juggernaut (With King Buzzo)
* 2008 - [ O T H E R ]

References

External links

* [http://www.lustmord.com/ Official Site]
** [http://www.lustmord.com/discography.html Discography]
* [http://www.myspace.com/lustmord Official Myspace Site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0930168/ The Internet Movie Database]
* [http://www.vaultprime.com/ Vaultworks]