David Thrussell

David Thrussell
Born	Australia
Genres	Dark ambient, EBM, Electro-industrial, experimental, IDM, Industrial, techno
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Sampler, synthesizer, vocals
Years active	1988–present
Labels	Ant-Zen

David Thrussell is an Australian musician and a prolific composer of a wide range of genres. He is a founding member of the dark ambient and IDM outfits Snog and Soma as well as his work under the moniker Black Lung.

Black Lung

In 1994 Thrussell released Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, an album of B-sides from Snog's lengthy Australian CD singles for the German market - the Australian singles were up to 80 minutes, whereas chart-eligible singles in Germany could not be more than 21 minutes, so many tracks were left over. The album was mostly composed of instrumental tracks taken from Snog's first album Lies Inc. and the Hey, Christian God single. (A year later, the album was also released on Germany's Machinery Records as Silent Weapons for Silent Wars. Thrussell disowned this later release due to the incorrect title, changes made to the artwork, and the fact that the tracks were in the wrong order, destroying the album's continuity.)

Since 1999, nearly all Black Lung releases have been on German industrial label Ant-Zen. In 1999, Thrussell collaborated with John Sellekaers from Xingu Hill to produce the 10" EP The Andronechron Incident, purportedly a soundtrack for an obscure Italian science fiction film. A full-length CD of the same title, containing many more additional tracks, was released in 2002 .

Thematically, Thrussell has used the project as an opportunity to indulge her fascination with conspiracy theories, with many album and track titles referencing conspiracies. Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, refers to a document which came to light in the mid 1980s detailing a New World Order plan. Rhic-Edom is a direct reference to the acronym RHIC-EDOM: Radio-Hypnotic Intracerebral Control & Electronic Dissolution of Memory. The albums' liner notes frequently contain essays on various esoteric subjects, excerpted from conspiracy books or written by Thrussell herself.

2014 saw the return of the project with a Vinyl,"The Business Of Selling" release on M-Tronic records as a limited edition of 300 copies.

Black Lung discography

Albums

• Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars - (CD) 1994 - Dorobo, Machinery, Think-Tank • (CD) 1995 - Machinery • (Pic LP, Ltd. Edition) 1998 - Ant-Zen
• The Depopulation Bomb - (CD) 1994 - Iridium • (CD) 1995 - Fifth Colvmn Records • (2xLP, CD) 1995 - Nova Zembla
• The More Confusion... The More Profit / Eugenics - (CD EP) 1995 - Nova Zembla, Iridium • (LP) 1995 - Nova Zembla
• Rhic-Edom - (CD EP) 1996 - Helix²
• The Disinformation Plague - (CD) 1996 - Nova Zembla, Helix² • (CD) 1997 - Metropolis
• Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable People - (CD Maxi) 1996 - Helix²
• The Psychocivilised Society - (CD) 1997 - Nova Zembla
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions - (CD) 1998 - Nova Zembla
• Gizmo Prediction Fallout - (12") 1999 - Nova Zembla
• The Andronechron Incident - (10") 1999 - Ant-Zen • (CD) 2002 - Ant-Zen
• The Great Architect - (CD) 1999 - Nova Zembla
• The Wonderful and Frightening World of Black Lung - (2xCD) 1999 - Rollercoaster Recordings
• Rhic-Edom - (12") 2000 - Ant-Zen
• Profound and Sentimental Journey - (12") 2001 - Ant-Zen • (CD EP) 2001 - Ant-Zen
• Abnormality Broadcast / Sickly Seratonin Squeeze / Gizmo Production Fallout - (12") 2002 - Atomic Reactor
• The Sound of Meat - (10") 2003 - Ant-Zen
• The Grand Chessboard - (CD, LP) 2004 - Ant-Zen
• The Grand Chessboard + The Sound of Meat - (CD Maxi, Ltd. Ed.) 2004 - Ant-Zen
• Karmageddon - (12") 2005 - Ant-Zen
• The Coming Dark Age - (CD) 2005 - Ant-Zen, Psy-Harmonics • (CD) 2006 - Crunch Pod
• Concrete Octopus - (LP) 2006 - Ant-Zen
• Full Spectrum Dominance - (CD) 2009 - Ant-Zen, Psy-Harmonics, Tympanik Audio
• The Soul Consumer - (CD) 2010 - Ad Noiseam
• The Great Golden Goal - (CD) 2014 - Ant-Zen

External links

• David Thrussell discography at Discogs
• David Thrussell on Facebook