*100 copies limited edition* When Eraserhead premiered in 1977, it didn’t just mark the beginning of David Lynch’s singular career—it rewired the language of underground cinema. A nightmarish journey through industrial decay, existential dread, and fractured identity, the film remains one of the most haunting works ever committed to celluloid. Shot in stark black and white, Eraserhead unfolds like a fever dream—where sound, space, and emotion bleed into one another in an uncanny, hypnotic dance. But what truly sets Eraserhead apart, even beyond its disquieting visuals, is its sound. David Lynch, working closely with sound designer and technician Alan Splet, constructed an aural landscape as vital and disturbing as any of the film’s images. The soundtrack is not built around traditional music, but rather an evolving tapestry of ambient industrial noise: distant hums, howling winds, metallic drones, mechanical grinding, and eerie silences that stretch time to its breaking point. Splet and Lynch manipulated everyday sounds—recording radiators, engines, air currents—to create a dense sonic fog that reflects the inner turbulence of the protagonist, Henry Spencer, and the collapsing world around him.

This groundbreaking sound design became a cornerstone for generations of industrial, dark ambient, and experimental musicians, who saw in Eraserhead’s audio a blueprint for a new kind of music—one rooted in texture, tension, and the psychogeography of sound. Artists from Throbbing Gristle to Lustmord have drawn inspiration from the film’s oppressive audio universe, where machines breathe and silence screams. This compilation is both a tribute to that legacy and a continuation of its spirit. Each track resonates with the film’s core atmospheres: alienation, decay, the surreal beauty of dread. It is a homage to David Lynch’s uncompromising vision and to Alan R. Splet’s revolutionary work—sound not as background, but as character, as architecture, as emotion.