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David Tibet

Related band
Current 93 was founded in 1983 by David Tibet, John Balance and Fritz Haaman, with their debut "Lashtah".Before the band founded, John used to be a key member in a industrial noise band called Throbbing Gristle,then he set up another very important industrial noise band Coil.Fritz Haaman used to play a key role in the band, 23 Skidoo, which is another main industrial noise band in that era.David Tibet, the soul man of Current 93, often participated in making and producing several records by a number of industrial bands individually or in the name of Current 93.those industrial bands include the Nurse With Wound, Coil, and some labels producing industrial noise music,such as after Dark Vinyl.Among many important figures of the main line of the whole industrial noise music industry,the network among David Tibet,Steven Stapleton and John Balance is an indispensable one.These people are proficient in different kinds of field of these music, from dark ambient to dark/death industrial music,they sometimes acquired knowledge from each other when working together, thus it is easy to see that in the music of David Tibet/Current 93, there are mainly two important genres of underground industrial music including ambient music and dark industry.These mixed style of music represents the development of the industrial noise music.At the same time, as David Tibet used to be a member of Death In June, which is a band of death folk.the band Current 93 also has some works of neo-folk which are truly related to Death.it is not tough to see that the music created by David Tibet/Current 93 is a production mingled with industrial music, death folk and dark ambient music.

Influences
As the soul man of the British neo-folk band Current 93, David Tibet is a person with rich spiritual space.He believes in mysticism, which derived from several kinds of fields including the realms of religion, philosophy, witchcrafts, poetries and paintings. He is always trying to acquire inspiration from them, then blends those ideas into his works.Their particular style of music works are closely linked with the mysterious ideas of David Tibet.

When talking about the objects which can make David feel energy as well as acquire inspiration, he initially points out religions.Other than Christianity, He believes Buddhism as well.David Tibet concentrates on Vajrayana, one kind of religions of Tibet.He also regards the Padmasambhava (a famous Buddhist in India.Padmasambhava has a high reputation in the field of Tibetan Buddhism)as his own tutor.The album 《Buddhist Monks Of The Maitri Vihar Monastery》of Tibet in the year 1997 is just a paternoster from Tibetan Buddhism.

Tibet always keeps modest towards religions no matter which religion it is.He said that one must has a strong faith when one believes a new religion.He is also deeply into stuffs about witchcraft.David was affected by the theories of Aleister Croeley (1875-1947, a famous dark wizard in the 20th Century) since he was still ten years old.These theories proposed by Aleister are mostly related to devil worshippers and the true will of human beings.The influence by Croeley is so obivious in many aspects of David’s band including their covers, lyrics and themes. .