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  Rorschach (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rorschach were a New Jersey-based band that existed from 1989 to 1993, and blended Hardcore and Metal to create what is now known as metalcore and played a significant role in shaping of the genre and its aesthetic as it exists today.
However, as the band progressed, they developed a more sinister, slower, grinding sound that was a lot more metal influenced but still had Hardcore breakdowns.
The band took their name from the character Rorschach from the seminal graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rorschach_(band)   (248 words)

  
 Rough Edge: Rorschach Test CD Reviews
But, let it be known that Rorschach Test have been plying their trade in the hard rock/electronica genre since the early '90s - Rorschach Test are not newcomers to the scene and it shows in the band's confidence and ease with the post-industrial style.
Rorschach Test have a lot to draw from as they've suffered through a litany of problems that would destroy most other bands (broken contracts, death, line-up changes, devious managers).
This kind of daring sums up the bands approach and should suit the band well in the years to come as success cannot be too far behind.
www.roughedge.com /cdreviews/r/rorschachtest.htm   (453 words)

  
 RORSCHACH INK
The Rorschach inkblot test was developed by Hermann Rorschach, a Swiss psychologist, in the early twentieth century.
Rorschach was a proponent of Freudian psychoanalysis, which emphasizes the role of the unconscious mind.
Rorschach Ink will be playing at Mesa College's Spring Fling on Thursday, May 4 on the Associated Students stage behind the cafeteria.
www.rorschachink.com   (560 words)

  
 The Gauntlet :: Rorschach Test - Heavy Metal - Buddy Icons - Rorschach Test Videos - Rorschach Test Ringtones - mp3s - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rorschach Test is the creation of James Baker who conceived the band in Denver, Colorado during the early 1990s.
RORSCHACH TEST originally spawned from Baker's disillusionment with life when, after graduating from seminary school and working in a church, he was defrocked for heresy after questioning aspects of the church's rigid philosophical structure.
In 1996 RORSCHACH TEST released its debut independent CD, The Eleventh, which became a favorite in Seattle record stores and solidified the band as a regional headliner.
www.thegauntlet.com /bio/337/Rorschach-Test.html   (619 words)

  
 AMZ - September 2000 - Rorschach Test
So, it's only fitting that for a band to derive their name and logo from a centuries old inkblot pattern, that they similarly portray those characteristics for which such a design was based.
Describe how the band's progressed since first starting while touching a little upon your first two releases for those who may not be very familiar with them.
Bands that can even be considered ground-breaking at one point, are near obsolete in the next breath.
www.music-reviewer.com /09_00/rorschachinterview.htm   (2031 words)

  
 hal miller
Common themes uniting tonight's bands seemed to be the "fuck all" rock n' roll attitude, a tendency toward to play very heavy music and a conspicuous emphasis on the doom-and-gloom aesthetic.
Rorschach Test, displaying a strong Ministry influence, weren't very scary or nearly as heavy as their heroes.
Band members spent most of their time doubled over their instruments as they banged about for driving, industrial noise.
www.tearusapart.com /hal/bushgore.html   (788 words)

  
 Watchmen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In October 1985, Walter Kovacs (Rorschach) investigates the murder of New Yorker Edward Blake and learns that Blake was also The Comedian, a longtime costumed adventurer/government agent.
Veidt mentions how he hoped Osterman "would understand, unlike Rorschach..." to which Osterman replies "...yes, I understand, without condoning or condemning." The last shot of Osterman shows him framed by the astrolabe in Veidt's study.
Rorschach expresses his obsession with conspiracy theories throughout Watchmen and appears to derive much of his thinking from the right wing newspaper New Frontiersman.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watchmen   (4287 words)

  
 Decibel Magazine Forum - Integrity: Those Who Fear Tomorrow, Systems Overload   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rorschach dead have members that went on to be in deadguy, i still have the 7 inch from when i was a lot younger, Deadguy and Integrity.
Now these bands a a dime a dozen but bands like dillenger escape plan, converge, early cave in, botch ect i dont think would have been possiable without deadguy/Rorschach trail blazing, therefor each of their albums are completly import in any collection of extreme music.
I feel Integrity is a more deserving band to have their story told correctly in national publacation at a time when many current people in the scene have never heard of them let alone the vast enfluence they had on the current state of metalcore.
cmsbeta.decibelmagazine.com /forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=41&page=1   (1133 words)

  
 StupidStuff.org - Band Name Generator
That's because your band is probably named something crappy like "Three Guys Who Play Cool Music" or "No, Really, We Don't Suck As Bad As John Tesh Does".
You may be musical geniuses (and we might be brain surgeons), but picking a good band name requires a human touch, which is why we automated the whole damn process.
Band Name Generator will create a name that's just right for you, and without involving any pesky humans.
www.stupidstuff.org /main/bandname.htm   (207 words)

  
 Gern Blandsten Records
RORSCHACH featured future members of DEADGUY, BEAUTIFUL SKIN, COMPUTER COUGAR, KISS IT GOODBYE, RADIO TO SATURN, AMBUSH (on and on and on….) They were active from 1989 until 1993 and played a significant role in the shaping of metallic hardcore music and its aesthetic as it exists today.
Charles Maggio, frontman for the band, is the founder of the Gern Blandsten record label.
Leading the band through the 45-minute set (which, for the record, is quite a long show for such a hard playing and emotionally draining act) Maggio's anguished cries garnish the finely honed hardcore metal chops of the rest of the band, who aren't too bad off to begin with.
www.gernblandsten.com /index.php?option=content&task=category§ionid=2&id=21   (422 words)

  
 Boulder Weekly | Buzz | OverTones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The band’s originals move effortlessly between surf-influenced workouts, romantic Euro-ballads, spacious electro-acoustic etudes (like the gorgeous "What I Am" from their latest CD CG3+2) and angular neo-classicism.
But Richards and the others are all keenly aware of not wanting to turn the band into a traveling clinic–one of their signature covers, unabashedly pop, has become something of a staple at their shows.
Rorschach says she’s also happy with their current rhythm section: 10-year-veteran Drumdini and relative newcomer Chopper Franklin on bass.
www.boulderweekly.com /archive/052903/overtones.html   (1343 words)

  
 Autopsy, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rorschach's Autopsy is an intense collection of the group's entire recording history, capturing 31 songs recorded between 1989 and 1993.
Opening with tracks from the band's vicious hardcore debut, Remain Sedate, it is clear that there is nothing happy or overly melodic in the near future.
As the record progresses, it does seem clear that the band evolved and, by the time Protestant kicks in, the grinding sludge has given way to a more complicated and metal-influenced variation on the original themes.
www.emusic.com /cd/10594/10594155.html   (364 words)

  
 Music Exile - CD Reviews
Rorschach Test is a heavy metal band that includes very slight electronics into the mix.
But it also proves that this band could be a lot better if they decided to tone down on the heavy metal influences and concentrated more on the industrial ones.
As they are now they are a rather generic dark, angry and aggressive metal band that doesn't really offer enough fresh elements to allow them to stand out of the crowd.
www.wrappedinwire.com /R/RorschachTest.htm   (221 words)

  
 The Superhero Hype! Boards - perfect casting for rorschache (sp)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Born Joseph Walter Kovacs, Rorschach is the terror of the underworld.
Rorschach remained active after the passage of the Keene Act in 1977 and finally met his end at the hands of Dr. Manhattan in 1985.
Rorschach is very violent in his treatment of the "criminal element." His preferred method of gaining information is to go into cheap bars and start hurting people.
www.superherohype.com /forums/printthread.php?t=79527   (1730 words)

  
 FWWeekly: Featured Music: Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Rorschach signifies a new era for young indie rockers the cut*off.
For a lot of bands — maybe all of them — “making it” means playing in front of enormous audiences at corporate amphitheaters and having a single in constant Clear Channel-approved rotation as groupies line up outside the luxurious tour bus.
With droning melodies and fuzzed guitars, the band evokes everything from the Doors to Nirvana — guitarist and singer Kyle Barnhill’s snarl can be a dead ringer for Kurt’s — to the Pixies, which band members, all in their mid-20s, claim to adore.
www.fwweekly.com /content.asp?article=3603   (796 words)

  
 Brown Band - Shows - Spring 1998
Recently, the Band has begun to psychoanalyze itself, as we are quite disturbed by the fact that every time the percussion section plays the bells, we start to salivate.
But the Band's favorite road trip was to the nation of Andorra, tucked away in the picturesque Pyrennes between France and Spain.
The Brown Band has recently become interested in the study of language, and we did good on our last grammar test, and we learned to not split infinitives, and we know what part of the sentence to put our prepositions in, and we learned not to write really long run-on sentences.
www.brown.edu /Students/Brown_Band/shows/1997-1998_spring.shtml   (3080 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Unclean - Rorschach Test at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rorschach Test has an interesting history...Vocalist James Baker was raised in a very religious family and was already set to be a preacher but began to realize that the religious life was far from what he wanted...he was kicked out of school for heresy.
The other member,Troee (pronounced Troy), is the son of a preacher...he has been a member of various bands including the infamous band known as Slipknot...he later left Slipknot to join James Baker in Rorschach Test.
Rorschach Test has only two members...but that makes it hard to believe when listening to this album.
www.epinions.com /musc-review-3628-1056347D-3A02FB7A-prod2   (718 words)

  
 Vampire-Magazine.com - Trobar De Morte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 2002 the band ceased activity when she started up Ordo Funebirs, but when that band split up in 2003 the band resumed activity.
February 2004 Taedium left the band, but the new musicians Rorschach (percussion) and Lady Eodil (keys, percussion, vocals) were eager to join.
The band played some shows until Rorschach was replaced by Armande on bass and percussion.
www.vampire-magazine.com /bands/trobar_de_morte/info/8225_band_information_trobar_de_morte.html   (258 words)

  
 Things to Do - Music - from TBO.com
Forming in the late 1970s, the band pillaged the cemetery of discarded styles … rockabilly, garage/psychedelic and surf … to create its beautiful mutant sound.
The "Monster" of the title refers to The Cramps themselves, according to guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach, speaking by telephone from the Los Angeles home she shares with singer Lux Interior.
It's definitely a warts-and-all collection, with recordings from the band's first rehearsal in 1976 and its third-ever gig in 1977 (on which can be heard plenty of heckling as well as someone trying to score a joint).
ae.tbo.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=front_music_detail&musicID=7610   (493 words)

  
 Rorschach Test (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rorschach Test was a heavy metal/industrial band created by James Baker in the early 1990's.
This article on a United States metal music band is a stub.
This page was last modified 05:57, 6 January 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rorschach_Test_(band)   (71 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Tricked out
In the spirit of such theatricality, a bevy of local bands this weekend are working up whole sets of cover songs by groups that either influenced their sound and sensibility or just seemed like they'd be fun to tackle.
Singer/guitarist Chris Warren of the garage band Officer May is a longtime fan of the Doors and has a knack for aping Jim Morrison.
So he and the band enlisted Julian Cassanetti of local art-punk powerhouse the Lot Six as keyboardist, donned the moniker the Whoors, and learned songs including "Back Door Man." Guitarist Mike Sanders was coy about the rest of their set, but he says serious preparations are underway.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/10/29/tricked_out?mode=PF   (890 words)

  
 Psychobilly's Considerate Cramp
Few bands have ever dared to pusue as extreme a vision as the Cramps.
Rorschach reports that, after a four-year gap between records, the backstage situation has finally been solidified.
Rorschach finds it "insulting" when people listen to songs as lyrically extreme as "TV Set" (which postualtes that body parts are detachable playthings), "Drug Train" ("Get on board!"), or the new album's "Let's Get Fucked up" and assume that the band is "just kidding".
members.shaw.ca /thecramps/straight.html   (808 words)

  
 New Releases - 7/98 - Rorschach Test
"Rorschach Test." The band was formed in 1992 by vocalist James Baker and guitarist Richard Anderson, and also includes guitarist Kris Geren and keyboardist/programmer Troee.
They got a day-care school instead." The vocals are screamed in this song, which makes the band's apparent dismay at the current state of the country apparent.
This is an admirable first effort, and fans of industrial music probably would not be disappointed in "Rorschach Test." I suggest checking it out.
www.music-reviewer.com /07_98/newrel12j.htm   (516 words)

  
 Rorschach Test MP3 Downloads - Rorschach Test Music Downloads - Rorschach Test Music Videos
An intriguing blend of heavy rock, punk dynamics, and occasional forays into sonic freak-outs somewhere between Sonic Youth and the early Butthole Surfers, New York art grunge trio Barkmarket can at times be frustratingly difficult to pin down, but their best work has a noisy, rattling power.
Formed in Texas sometime around 1990, Skrew represented the vision of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Adam Grossman, and despite being referred to as a band, the group was more of a solo expression of Grossman's affinity for what would become known as industrial metal.
Dubbing the band "power violence," the sound was a brutal mix of complicated technical riffing and straight-up hardcore.
www.mp3.com /rorschach-test/artists/262510/similar.html   (370 words)

  
 SlipDisc - NIHIL, Rorschach Test   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is encouraging to see a heavy industrial band like this thriving in the sea of NIN bites.
Over all the band's debut, Drown, is a potent and vital addition to SlipDisc records line up, and holds a vast potential for future recordings.
If this band represents the current state of the progression of industrial music, then industrial music is truly in a swamp.
www.unchain.com /july/slipdisc.html   (207 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | Music | Recordings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Its in-your-face mix of slamming guitar riffs and funky grooves might even qualify as the sound of the moment, as band after band takes its cues from the funky metal of Living Color, the metallic funk of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and all their musical progeny.
When the band digs into the thunderous hard-rock chorus of "Things in Life" (the tale of a misbegotten gig in Mexico opening for Coolio), Burrows turns on his best soul-man croon, offering a dose of measured philosophy amidst the maelstrom.
The rest of the band gracefully handles the always-demanding time signatures, but a particular standout is multi-instrumentalist Chris "TG1" Elsner.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/1998-04-16/music/music2.html   (620 words)

  
 Mundane Sounds
At times, the band sounded downright silly: songs like “Skin” and “Lacerations” and their debut single blended heavy-handed goth-rock with outrageous, absurd lyrics, and they come across like a piss-take version of Joy Division.
If anything, this conflict is a conflict between the lyrical side and the instrumental side, for when the band stopped being silly, their music became much more interesting; their sound blends New Order’s rhythms with Durutti Column’s solemn beauty, and surprisingly, it works.
That the band broke up before further pursuing that one glimmer of greatness is indeed tragic.
www.mundanesounds.com /record_review.php?id=1356   (437 words)

  
 LPD Online Centraal: Legendary Pink News Archives (2005)
Basically the club had no PA, had made no arrangements for the band to stay anywhere (we were initially offered the floor of the club to sleep on), or even any kind of guarantee for payment, despite a previous agreement.
This is only the second show the band has ever cancelled in 25 years due to poor conditions - but never before have we encountered something quite as bad as this.
This is particularly offensive as despite several attempts by Edward to get in touch with this band, no one has responded to his e-mails, accounted to him in any way, or even provided him with promotional/complimentary copies of the release, though his name is obviously being used to sell the CDs.
www.brainwashed.com /lpd/archives/2005news.html   (4880 words)

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