This unusual pairing of two veterans from different genres is a welcome reminder that musicianship speaks a common language regardless of categorical metadata. Lustmord is the long-running project of Welsh musician Brian Williams, widely regarded as a pioneer of dark ambient music for his slow-moving soundscapes built from deep drones, field recordings, and subterranean textures. Dave Lombardo is best known as a founding member of Slayer, whose speed and double-bass technique influenced generations of thrash metal drummers, and who has more recently branched out in experimental directions. On The Pulse of Atoms, neither strays far from his individual roots – Lustmord provides the drones and Lombardo the drumming – but the amalgam…

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