
I clicked on them first, as I remembered they’d worked with the Melvins at one point. Upon starting with Lustmord’s Songs of Gods and Demons, I knew I’d come to the right place.


As it happened, I was at work and needed something without constant riffing, blasting and “uuurgh”-ing to keep part of my brain occupied while also letting the other part concentrate. I first heard of this genre in 2013 while checking out some Spotify playlists from Corey Mitchell (RIP), metal writer, true crime author, and original co-organizer of the Housecore Horror Film Festival. Beyond obvious candidates like punk, hardcore, grunge, classical, there is one form of electronic music I’d like to call your attention to: Dark Ambient.

At the same time, however, we may want to maintain a similar mood or feel to our usual death, black and doom standbys. While we may not want to admit it to each other when engaged in the fruitless exercise of maintaining our street cred, we metalheads sometimes need to listen to something other than metal.
