Lustmord is the dark ambient / industrial musical project of Los Angeles-based musician and sound designer Brian Williams. He has been known to utilize ultra-low frequencies – infrasound (i.e. below 20Hz, known to cause feelings of awe or fear). Lustmord has also frequently extracted field recordings and occasionally combined these with ritual incantations, Tibetan horns & other acoustic phenomena treatments – often encased in expanded bass rumbles. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Lustmord project and to celebrate Williams will be performing his second-ever live performance in North American. His previous show was in Los Angeles in 2006 at a private event. Note - that first show was for the Church of Satan, done, says Lustmord “for the ‘Spinal Tap’ aspect of it all” not because he actually believed in their beliefs – “but some seem to think I'm actually into that nonsense and the press always ask about it so much so it's gotten rather boring.” This special New York show follows his second-ever live performance (worldwide) as Lustmord last October at Unsound Festival in Krakow.

Williams started the Lustmord project in January 1980 following encouragement and support to do so from members of Throbbing Gristle and SPK. Surprisingly for a project that has seen Williams only perform live twice in the past thirty years, the project actually started with a series of now-legendary live performances conducted in 1980-81 as unofficial and unannounced “support” for various name headline acts. Williams recalls that these unbilled California events usually ended “with chaotic and/or violent conclusions (Happy days).” He also recalls using “diverse recording sources such as caves, crypts, catacombs, car crashes and cosmological activity” as the roots of his music. Williams released the first of his many solo albums "Lustmord" on Sterile Records in 1981. Since then he has released over 17 albums.

In the 1980’s, Williams was a member of SPK, one of the most influential groups of the original industrial genre. From 1985 until 1999, he owned and managed the label Side Effects, releasing albums from SPK, Laibach and others. In the late 1980’s he also acted as a consultant for Mute Records, assisting in the establishment of their subsidiary label The Grey Area and overseeing releases by Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Monte Cazazza. Since 1993, Williams has worked as a freelance Sound Designer and his credits include numerous films, games and commercials including “The Crow,” “ Underworld,” as well as games like “Unreal Tournament III” and “Assassin's Creed.” The Lustmord album Heresy gave birth to the genre known as “Dark Ambient”. Lustmord has collaborated with Tool, The Melvins, Clock DVA, Robert Rich and Chris & Cosey. His first-ever solo show in New York will double as a state-of-the-art sound installation with HD visuals created especially for the performance.