Brian Williams aka Lustmord : The Interview Series on Gas Masks & Hand Grenades

Join me on 5/31/23 @ 4:00 PM EST when my guest will be Brian Williams, otherwise known as Lustmord. Lustmord is often cited as the Godfather of Dark Ambient music, and for me it was his seminal 1990 album Heresy that I heard first around 2001/02 that helped lead me down a dark ambient/drone rabbit-hole to hell that I spent a lot of time (and money) exploring in the early 00's. To this day that albums claustrophobic, oppressive, and harrowing atmospheres still remain as evocative of a nightmare trip to what I would envision Hell being like, just as much as the artwork informs the listening experience.

Brian began his recording career as a solo artist releasing his first album in 1981, the aptly titled Lustmord. He then joined the legendary Australian industrial band SPK in 1982 and was featured on their highly influential second album Leichenschrei (which was likely something many early Industrial bands, such as, Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly were influenced by). After leaving SPK Brian really established the Lustmord sound and vision with albums like Paradise Disowned, Heresy, The Place Where the Black Stars Hang, Other, and The Word as Power.

He has scored or contributed to 44 films, including Zoetrope, The Crow, First Reformed, and The Empty Man, to name a few. In addition he is a well renowned collaborator with Tool, Maynard James Keenan (Puscifer), Buzz Osbourne/Melvins, Jarboe, Chris & Cosey (Throbbing Gristle), and many more, including most recently, Dave Lombardo. He has remixed many artists, and in 2022 had his own material remixed as The Other (Lustmord Deconstructed) which includes some radical remixes of Lustmord tracks by people such as Ivar Bjornson, Steve Von TIll, Ihsahn, Justin Broadrick, The Ocean Collective, and Bohren der Club of Gore. Finally, Brian has created many video game soundtracks, and is a fairly avid gamer, which we will touch on.

Lots of interesting avenues to investigate with this mans career and I ill try to hit as much as I can , so please join us and show some love to Mr. B Lustmord !!

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