Current 93
Current 93 began in the tape loops and noise of early-80s industrial music, with David Tibet chanting over droning, ritualistic soundscapes on records like Nature Unveiled and Dogs Blood Rising.
By the late 80s Tibet had found a new voice in English folk. Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre and All the Pretty Little Horses set his trembling, apocalyptic visions against acoustic guitars and nursery-rhyme melodies, with Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton close at hand; later records drew in Shirley Collins and Anohni. The music has kept shifting between hushed beauty and unsettling noise ever since.
If you like Current 93 you should check out: Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Swans, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Angels Of Light, Bill Callahan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Vashti Bunyan, Nico
