Lustmord

Lustmord
Lustmord playing at Norbergfestival, 2011.
Background information
Birth name	Brian Williams
Origin	North Wales
Genres	Dark ambient
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Synthesizer, programming
Years active	1980–present
Labels	Hydra Head, Soleilmoon
Associated acts	Tool, Isis, Puscifer, SPK, Melvins
Website	lustmord.com
Notable instruments
Logic Pro EMS Synthi AKS Ableton Live

Brian Williams is a Welsh industrial musician, sound designer and film score composer. He is often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord. His experimental work has been described as "not traditionally 'musical'" with "more clearly visual aspects".

Williams was raised in rural Wales, before relocating in London in his late teens. In London, Williams befriended Throbbing Gristle members Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter, who urged him to make his own music. He 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 acclaimedStalker, 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 collaborated with Graeme Revell and Paul Haslinger to contribute as "musical sound designer" and occasionally as additional composer to 44 Hollywood film soundtracks, most notably on The Crow and Underworld.