Rorschach

Pictures

Listen to, buy or share

Buy

Buy on Amazon Amazon Expand purchase options
  • Digital download
  • Amazon Amazon
  • 7digital 7digital
  • iTunes iTunes
  • Physical media
  • Amazon Amazon Search
  • eBay eBay Search
  • 242,061
    scrobbles
  • 9,782
    listeners

Tags

Everyone’s tags

More tags

Biography

There are/were at least 6 bands named Rorschach:

1. a now defunct New-Jersey based Hardcore band that existed from 1989 to 1993.
2. a London based Rock/Alternative act formed 1995 and currently recording their second album.
3. a progressive/indie rock band from Hungary.
4. an Art-Deco Rock band from Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
5. a gothic metal band from Essex, UK, now on hiatus.
6. a late 1980’s indie band from Bristol (UK) that went onto become Santa Cruz.

1. Rorschach were a New Jersey-based band that existed from 1989 to 1993. The group often blended hardcore punk and dissonant elements of metal providing the inspiration to a number of hardcore and post hardcore bands thereafter.

The first release by the band, Remain Sedate, shows the band’s sound at a stage when they played fast, heavy hardcore with a metal slant and raspy hardcore vocals. At this time they also drew heavy comparisons to Die Kreuzen’s eponymously titled lp for their bizarre chord progressions and Charles Maggio’s unearthly howl. However, as the band progressed, they developed a slower, more sinister, sludge sound that was as much influenced by cult metal bands as it was by noiser fare like fellow New York band Swans. Additionally, the vocals developed into high-pitched, tortured screaming rather than shouting, due in part to voice problems Maggio was experiencing at the time. This change in sound can be heard primarily on their second full-length release, Protestant. Shortly after issuing this album, the group disbanded, some members eventually joining Deadguy.
Read more… Edit bio

Featured tracks

Featured tracks

Top Albums

Listening Trend

9,782listeners all time
242,061scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Start scrobbling and track your listening history

Last.fm users scrobble the music they play in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio and over 200 other music players.

Create a Last.fm profile

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up.

Top Listeners