ABOUT

In a formidable, 44-year creative career at the forefront of industrial music, stygian drone legend and near-mythical entity Lustmord pierces the veil and transports listeners to an uncompromising world that only exists within the music.

Urged by Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle to make music that captured his distinctive aura, Brian assumed the mantle of Lustmord in 1980 and began working on a sound he wanted to hear which didn’t exist. Nine years of field-recording experimentation and near-constant collaboration later, Lustmord released his third album, ‘Heresy’, which became a milestone in the industrial scene and is now universally regarded as the origin of the dark ambient genre.

The captivating narrative precedent of ‘Heresy’ was also the catalyst for an incredible career in production work and sound design. Alongside a plethora of solo albums as Lustmord, Brian has worked with a diverse group of artists including Tool, Puscifer, SPK, Coil’s John Balance, Chris & Cosey and Melvins.

Based in Los Angeles since 1993, Lustmord has also contributed as composer and sound designer to the music for iconic film and television properties including ‘The Crow’, ‘Strange Days’, ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’, ‘Underworld’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ writer Paul Schrader’s 2017 film ‘First Reformed’.

Still determined to push at the boundaries of sound, genre and media; Lustmord has also contributed to the soundscapes of video games such as Assassin’s Creed, League of Legends and, quite fittingly, 2022’s H.R. Geiger-inspired, survival-horror game, Scorn.

With it’s inimitable, timeless concoction of earth-shaking sub bass, spine-tingling ritualism and inescapable, existentialist dread a sense of uncertainty and the unknown is an important and recurring theme within Lustmord’s work;

“My music explores the sheer insignificance of our primitive thoughts and actions within the vast scale of the cosmos - a scale which we as a species are not equipped to comprehend. My work is not dark, but deep. It is a light that shines into the darkness”.