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Lustmørd
12+ albums
industrialdark ambientambientexperimentalold school industrial
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Alternate name used by Lustmord on early releases. Brian 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. 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 p
