Mindspawn

Who is Mindspawn?

Mindspawn is a soundscape, dark ambient, post industrial act formed and fronted by Gene Williams.

Williams was raised on a farm in the remote area of the Ozark Mountains in Missouri. In his late teens, Williams left his homeland and lived in a variety of places both in the United States and abroad, doing a variety of things, including graphic art, construction work, bull-riding, archaeology, spelunking, and more. Around 1980 Williams began to experiment in music, playing in a few small bands, but eventually becoming enthralled with multitrack tape and field recordings. Over the next decade he gathered sounds from various caves, wells, cisterns, archaeological sites, and more, as well as continuing to hone his musical abilities with several instruments. During the bulk of this era he was largely a solitary experimentalist and he had no public releases.

In the early 1990s, Williams relocated to the Boston area. At that time, he first began to perform under the guise of Mindspawn. Eventually, Williams started his own record label, Dark Seeds, and began releasing his material and that of other similar minded artists.