Blot Und Eisen

TEST SUBJECT #11: MIRAI

2009-04-16T00:01:00.001-07:00

Mirai is the founding member of Japan's best and longest running avant garde metal bands, Sigh. Not only did he so graciously take time from creating masterful infidel art to take the test, he also included handy links (click on the answer) to better show you what he saw in the blots. Here' are his replies:

Three birds.

This is a mascot character for the expo which was held several years back in Japan.

Two women gathering around the pot. The fire is inside the pot.

A guy on the motorcycle seen from the front.

This is Baltan-seijin, which appeared in the TV program named Ultraman.

Your own ship in Galaxian.

Two Rabbits In The Bush

Hmmm, this reminds me of a woman in Korea called "Aunt Fan".

Beware, this is pretty much shocking, think before you click!

Frozen coffee cup and its saucer.

The grapes.

TEST SUBJECT #10: TREY SPRUANCE

2009-04-14T23:28:00.001-07:00

Trey Spruance is best known for his work with Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, The Secret Chiefs, and Asva, but did you also know that he is an incredibly nice and generous man who took time away from traversing the cosmos, and commiserating with ancient astral beings to take the Rorschach test?

the pelvis bone of a Siamese twin

a bearded tree stump singing his part in the forest choir

two lanky fire-ritual celebrants beating the same drum

the town sheriff (19th century) impaled on a spike (ground view looking up)

an overconfident grasshopper doing a burlesque featherdance

an Orthodox Church

two female rockabilly fans dancing

the Tree of Life in some unknown Native American conception

the black sheepskin rug in front of my fireplace

oh, those excitable hippies at Burning Man

TEST SUBJECT #9: MICHAEL IX WILLIAMS

2009-03-10T23:42:00.000-07:00

Michael IX Williams is the frontman for the influential band EYEHATEGOD. He is also an accomplished poet, his book Cancer as a Social Activity is equal parts Baudelaire and Harmony Korine. Michael took time from his hectic life to take the Rorschach Test for Blot Und Eisen.

Two Grim Reapers fighting mid-flight over a skinned and headless goat carcass.

Two decadent, tattered robe wearing, cigarette smoking acrocephalics playing patty-cake.

Highly electro-magnified dust mite in a cheap motel.

Bug's eye view of a cowboy with a Stegosaurus tail at a shootout.

Mutant Moth-man without any proper prophecy to speak of.

Exploding sepulchre with cross monument at top.

Beard of a sideshow pharmacist on display in East Cambodia.

Battered insect helmet made of chrome, thread, and wire mesh.

The Hideous Sun Demon crossbred with the original She-Creature.

Prehistoric sawfish crushed after suicidal dive off of 18th floor high rise, then ran over by an eighteen wheeler.

TEST SUBJECT #8: JOHN HAUGHM

2009-03-06T20:54:00.000-08:00

John Haughm is the guitarist/singer/mastermind behind the band Agalloch. John took some time out from writing the next Agalloch album and wandering through the woods in order to take the Rorschach test for Blot Und Eisen. Here are his replies:

A wild boar with four eyes and an attitude.

A very lonely abominable snow creature, crooning into the night.

Two people fighting over a head.

An animal skin rug

A bird...as seen from another bird.

The sky...as seen from inside a shallow grave.

Two siamese twin elephant embryos trying to escape each other

A monk with a musk ox skull on his chest

A goat head backpack

A sort of intergalactic crab lord.

TEST SUBJECT #7: DIGESTOR

2009-03-06T20:53:00.002-08:00

Digestor is the singer/guitarist of cult Creepsylvanian Gore-obsessed thrashers, Ghoul. He so graciously took time from digesting to take the Rorschach test. Here' are his replies:

Ink blot

Blot of ink

Inky smear

Drops of ink pressed between the folded halves of a piece of paper

Embarrassing stain

Hard to clean mess

Baby diaper

Dirty tablecloth

Leaky oil pan

This one looks like me and my mother having violent sex while my dad watches and jerks off

TEST SUBJECT #6: FENRIZ

2009-03-06T20:53:00.001-08:00

Do I really need to introduce Fenriz, one of the founding members of the most influential Black Metal band of all time? Anyways, Fenriz was gracious enough to take time out from hiking and hanging out in Haiger to take the Rorschach test for Blot Und Eisen. Here's his replies:

a fox, but not just any fox; the fox that's on the norwegian rolling tobacco pouch "EVENTYRBLANDING" (maybe one can google it)

GROTTO (cave) after 1 milisec. a STUPID painting of a sad demon (2 sec), a butterfly (6 sec), 2 men arguing (after 20 sec, i didn't look this long on the others)

a crab (the sea creature)

a giant (Goliath?)

a nerdy looking bird

Some sort of weapon/security tower. the bottom half didn't give me any instant association directly, it just backed up the ominous tower. so no direct association other than it was under ground/in the soil/the soil itself

germany (twisted map of)

alien skeleton (1 sec). the bit that made me think of a skeleton then looked like a uterus after like 4 seconds.

War machine, wasn't immediate. the very top structure is much like Away's (VOIVOD) early structures, or the top of our very own logo (darkthrone)

a sign of arms, like what you's see on a mideaval shield. then i see a large lying animal fur (like in front of the fire place stylee) in the middle, and gargoyle-like dragons at each side.

TEST SUBJECT #5: SCOTT KELLY

2009-03-06T20:50:00.002-08:00

Scott Kelly is best known for being the one of the founding members of Neurosis as well as being a member of Blood & Time and most recently, Shrinebuilder. He is also a a deeply effective songwriter and solo artist as well as a father and friend. Scott took some time out from bearing his soul and his teeth for art in order to take the Rorschach test for Blot Und Eisen. Here are his replies:

wolf

sad face

frog

cowboy/keep on trucking

butterfly/angel

priest

beard

ape

Gary Oldman as Dracula with an antennae

a smashed turtle

TEST SUBJECT #4: PROSCRIPTOR

2009-03-06T20:50:00.001-08:00

Proscriptor is the enigmatic drummer/vocalist of the legendary Texas occult metal band, Absu. Proscriptor took time from his busy schedule as one of the most mind-blowing drummers in the universe, father, and all around noble and gracious man, in order to take the Rorschach test for Blot Und Eisen. Here are his replies:

Kether (Pluto)

Chokmah (Neptune)

Binah (Saturn)

Chesed (Jupiter)

Geburah (Mars)

Tiphareth (Sun)

Netzach (Venus)

Hod (Mercury)

Yesod (Luna)

Malkuth (Earth)

To me, these look like the 10 magic(k)al emanations or Sephiroth. These are energies far away from the "formative world."

TEST SUBJECT #3: MELYNDA JACKSON

2009-03-06T20:49:00.001-08:00

Melynda Jackson is the guitarist and ringleader of cult neo-prog instrumentalists SubArachnoid Space. She so graciously took time from sonically blowing minds to take the Rorschach test. Here' are her replies:

this is a pelvis, vaguely skeletal, and seems brittle like an old man's pelvis.

this looks like someone with a bag on their head, or maybe a ghost yowling...seems to have a confused facial expression...or bemused.

first glance makes me think of a map, but the two little things on each side that are not attached to the rest of the picture loook like little guys who have fallen backwards off their chairs...but the chairs look sort of like a couple of old ladies sitting down facing each other with the blob between them maybe being a table of sorts.

this one makes me think of a horsehoe crab....or a squashed insect.

this looks like a chicken facing me with its wings outspread only it has a butterfly head.i think its trying to tell me that i should get a job soon.

the top of this seems like a boat propeller....upon further inspection the top of this looks like a grave stone or a tall monument with the bottom of it being the shadow cast by bright lights behind it.

this one looks like two kids hiding something behind each of their backs....puckered for a kiss. the one on the right is the girl, but they have the same hairdo.

the two bears on either side of the image are climbing from a lower world to an upper world. there is only room for one of them at the top though. the upper world and the lower world are connected by a thin umbilical cord.

alien dracula i think. eyes widely placed. not very intelligent. fetal alcohol syndrome.

a fossil found in the river of an ancient crab. it has amosquito head. that is all.

TEST SUBJECT #2: JOE PRESTON

2009-03-06T20:44:00.001-08:00

Joe Preston is the genius behind the one-man band Thrones, a member of Harvey Milk, and and has played in The Melvins, Earth, and High On Fire. Joe was gracious enough to take time out from ruling the galaxy to take the Rorschach test for Blot Und Eisen. Here's his replies:

shark finned horse custody battle

suicidal ideation

wild party

highway pegs

welcome

louse icon

desire for intimacy

cats ascending world tree

badass unicorns and sheep

fleeing a crime

TEST SUBJECT #1:EUGENE ROBINSON

2009-03-06T20:42:00.000-08:00

Eugene Robinson is the singer of Oxbow (the greatest band on earth) as well as the author of the book Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking. Despite being a guy who could throughly fuck you up, he's a standup motherfucker who took the time to take the Rorschach Ink Blot test. The Rorschach test is one of the most commonly used methods of psychological evaluation even if it is regarded by many professionals as inconclusive pseudoscience. The test was invented by Hermann Rorschach in 1921, a man who never heard Oxbow. Here is the test with Eugene's responses:

a wolfskin

a sad man

2 women dancing

a country

a bug

the statue at Corcorvado

a garlic chopper

2 naked dudes in a tree

a fat man's head

bumrushing the show