Brian Williams (musician)

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Lustmord at the Norbergfestival, Sweden, 2011

Brian Williams (born January 9, 1964 ) is a Welsh industrial and dark ambient musician who is best known for his music project Lustmord .

Williams' style is characterized by dark sound collages and monotonous, machine-like rhythms. Singing in the strict sense of the word is not used. More or less processed speech samples are often used for this.

history

At the age of 16 or 17, Williams first came across the films of Kenneth Anger , which fascinated him. These were among the influences that drove him to his own activities.

Williams, a trained sound engineer, began his musical career in the early 1980s by storming the stage between the lead group and the main group at concerts by other bands and working on the existing instruments until the security staff finished his performance. These actions soon put him in contact with industrial bands such as SPK and Throbbing Gristle . With the former there was a closer collaboration, both live and in the studio.

The first Lustmord album was released in 1982. John Balance from Coil and Nigel Ayers from Nocturnal Emissions were involved in the recording . Two years later, in 1984, followed "Paradise Disowned", a kind of concept album for which Williams reworked field recordings in various underground / sea locations (including the crypt of Chartres Cathedral , a slaughterhouse and on the seabed) in the recording studio.

In the next few years, Williams did not pursue any of his own projects, but worked as a sound engineer and sound designer with numerous greats from the industrial environment, including Current 93 , Nurse with Wound , SPK, Chris & Cosey and Graeme Revell .

From 1990, independent lustmord albums were released again. In the mid-1990s Williams moved to California to support Graeme Revell on soundtracks for films such as Street Fighter , The Crow and Spawn . At the same time he is promoting various side projects, including "Terror Against Terror", "Arecibo" and "Isolrubin BK".

He also released the critically acclaimed album "Stalker" with Robert Rich in 1995 and "Pigs of the Roman Empire" with The Melvins in 2006 .

Lustmord's first live appearance in 25 years took place on June 6, 2006 as part of a mass for the 40th anniversary of the Church of Satan . The concert was released in the same year on the album "Rising".

Discography

  • 1981 - Lustmørd
  • 1983 - Lustmordekay
  • 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 - lust murder vs. Metal Beast (with Shad T. Scott)
  • 2000 - Purifying Fire
  • 2001 - Metavoid
  • 2002 - Law of the Battle of Conquest (with Hecate)
  • 2002 - Zoetrope
  • 2004 - Carbon / Core
  • 2004 - Pigs of the Roman Empire (with The Melvins )
  • 2006 - Lustmord Rising
  • 2007 - Juggernaut (with King Buzzo )
  • 2007 - "D" Is For Dubby - The Lustmord Dub Mixes (full remix album for Puscifer )
  • 2008 - Other (with Adam Jones ( Tool ), King Buzzo ( The Melvins ) and Aaron Turner ( Isis ))
  • 2009 - The Dark Places of the Earth
  • 2013 - The Word as Power
  • 2016 - Dark Matter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brian Williams: Anger Is An Energy . ( Memento from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lust murder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh industrial and dark ambient musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1964