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Brian Williams is a Welsh electronic musician often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord.

History

Williams 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.

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 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.

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).^[1] A recording of the performance entitled "Rising" was released.

Lustmord released his latest 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.

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 (live album)
• 2007 - Juggernaut (with King Buzzo)
• 2008 - [ O T H E R ]
• 2008 - "D" is for Dubby - The Lustmord Dub Mixes
• 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 - The Word As Power (work in progress)

References

External links

• Official Site
  • Discography
• Official Myspace Site
• Lustmord at the Internet Movie Database
• Vaultworks