Member Since: 2/15/2005
Band Website: hem1.passagen.se/blot/mine/index.htm
Band Members: Steril Vwreede (Jakob Andersson) 1996- Vocals See also Projekt Hat, VÃ¥lnad Ur Rymd.
Thunaraz (aka Devothan) 1995- Guitars See also Setherial.
Athel W. 1997- Guitars
Thorn (Daniel Edström) 1995- Bass See also Egregori, Setherial, Vålnad Ur Rymd.
Zathanel (Anders Löfgren) 1995- Drums See also Blackwinds, Midvinter, Setherial, Sorhin, Vålnad Ur Rymd.
DISCOGRAPHY1996 Kill For Inner Peace (demo) No label
1998 Porphyrogenesis Near Dark Productions
2005 Ashcloud Metal Fortress
Influences: Blot Mine and the search for terrestrial intelligenceFrom beyond barriers of time stretch the matters, visible to us, or dark and mystic. How they affect us is more to the question than why. As a shimmer of energy in that void which constitutes man's knowledge of the spheres through which he travels unknowingly, and which, likewise him unknowingly, passes through him, Blot Mine turns to the wild and savage forces which rush through our sphere pointing to the fact that disasters need not be regarded as the machinations of other than a superhuman chain of causes and consequences. Personification of these forces has served as a tool for man in organizing not only human society, but also of his general outlook on life and his place in the scheme of things. Although we acknowledge this fact on more than one level we perceive sound advantages in referring to these phenomena as natural. Not only in the sense that they are products of this latitude of space and time, but also in that they often surpass man's acquired interest and means of measuring all he encounters. Surely there are mathematical engineering eager to provide man with proof of the matter but still there are more things in heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in man's scientosophy. Understanding cause is one thing, grasping effect is another, realizing the importance of context and acting thereupon is wholly another. We do not despise science. What we turn against is the kind of scientific research undertaken and the lack of effect in the data. We shall readily blame human society and its ruling elite. Though the issue referred to here and now, is not all beside the point, we do not wish to pursue this reasoning any further. Instead we turn to matters of greater importance: namely, the function of personifying powers and the reasons for doing this. Giving a name to whatever trait of nature you want allows you to converse with that entity, not necessarily in explicit two-way communication, but more as a partaking in an untamed aspect of nature. Naming them yourself besides beholding them as beings serve the purpose of separating them from the common register of association you have been socialized to accept as a member of a shared culture. Always keeping the universal aspects of the fact in question in mind. Winds rove even the most waste of lands, light races to even the most remote of worlds, radiation is all pervading, geo-thermal activity is not exclusive to earth. Destruction and revaluation are distinct features of this dimension as it appears to us. Then, is there Evil in Nature?Evil as seen by us lies parallel to the class of passive behavior. Whether admittedly normally a thinking or reasoning being or a facet of nature's lawboundedness. The importance is that acts and facts are acted as with zero intent and with no prior appreciation of the consecutive realities implied by that act or fact. Evil in itself is defined by a small set of rules valid on all levels of meaning. Evil cannot serve good, Evil cannot serve at all.All deliberate acts, although evil in the eyes of but one, serve some purpose of good, perhaps even only for the moment of that act. Therefor Evil cannot serve, as it then would be evil itself which bore the fact of the action. Man is no master of Evil. It will not be duped into that kind of relationship with man. Evil as applied to our sphere of life needs victims. If there is no perception of good in a matter touched by the agent of Evil or if the receptive object does not experience feelings of discomfort at the fact, then nothing evil has happened. The rule of context though, says that the recipient of intentional as well as unintentional fact is not necessarily the only one to perceive what takes place. A whole world of earth cohabitators stand prepared to interpret nature on your behalf, the media is communication. And communication often bestows intent and thereby contents. It is Blot Mines intention to propone repause and circumspect meditation over the facts of this and as many other dimensions as one can gain understanding of. Taking into consideration the entire situation in minute detail from a totally objective perspective allows you to partake in a deed or doing, that is, without the prejudice clothed in which we all too often seek to attain limited knowledge for some purpose or another. True knowledge cannot be acted out, as it would be to restrained by our bodies to express itself fully. True knowledge cannot be transferred by word of mouth or through script and drawing. All these means are limited in idea-conveying because they presuppose a shared terminology, and more than that, a common frame of references. This of course is construed by man and fraught with troublesome associations in the form of sound-correspondence. Similar vowelsounds and rhyming, for example, along with stress and intonation can convey unwarranted messages to the object. If, at all, they have a shared mother tongue or at least can distinguish more than the major semantic nuances of said language.Communication is hard to avoid, and all purposeful communicating inherently contains implications of good. Only when information has ceased to be on your mind can it sieve down to the subconscious, and work its Evil.Blot Mine April of 2001Whatever the associations. Regardless of your surroundingsThere are aspects to this cosmos which require our attention. Have we any hope for ever achieving an insight into the breadth of manifestations of the limits to this dimension. Mathematics can no doubt give us loads of data, and frames of reference. It is a way of not only understanding the coincidences and freak occurrences, or providing the atmosphere in which you can scour for clear moments of refreshing down-to-fact-thinking, but also tuning you in like a transistor operated by waves on the chord of your existence. Things turn into other things when you think about it: gradually, and quite slowly at times, the attraction between two bodies in space on any level of associations, conceptual or material. Many times, what is in fact the drawing closer to something is, in essence the experiencing of another. Another whatever. Of course, two entities in each others proximity need not be enough to cause an awareness of whatever experienced. All happens, regardless of one's vivid imaginations of lawbound behavior in this. What we are talking about and at the heart of the argument: two bodies attracting the other's attention are bound to interact. A single body aware, need only react. No matter on what level of your associations right now all things bear on each other. If only to part for ever in the blink of an eye. Giving outlet to your thoughts regularly, and being torn at in high thoughts on something's unapproachability, we expect to find the same results in any train of thoughts of this matter. But crucial to the appreciation of it's implications we need to separate ourselves from so many traits of being human that it appears language doesn't even play a role here. Culture doesn't set the boundaries or the depth. Identifying ourselves in an outwardly manner is dealing with whatever. Our realization that our atoms are clung together like ghostly bubbles on a rippled surface, allowing us the breath and time on our hands to be the first living being having this thought, in this set of molecules with which we drape the electrical charges of thought impulses anyway.All things give of themselves in the context of its realization in this dimension. Could we force awareness into cold notion not only would we blow our mind; we would end this session of being tuned in to the wavelength of cause in context and effect in time. This sort of reasoning ends here. So many circumstances impair our full view to this spectacular and factually determining core to time-space related affairs that we need not even address them. If one is fortunate, one does find through subliminality the web of intuitive machinery that make up the outlines for a persons constitution. How does that ticker work? Fin, we guess. And revert to what is not without approachability. How much passes to the next object? Not unreasonably much, we surmise, but also concur with with the results of this truck from hell on a desert highway at night of a thought. To any ends, bodies attract because context demands continous flows of energy, within objects, concepts and laws of degradation. For all dissoves and burn out in the process, except the emptiness, which is time. A measuring rod in one perspective, and an unmoved mover in another, the part of contextualising in both views; the irreverent thought of purpose in a third; touching for no apparent reason applying a grid of appropriation vs. rejection in still another, collecting those bubbles on the concave nothing in empty space. Or so, we perceive. In our dimension on the other side of the argument, the walls seem made up of regular occurences involving a limited amount of absolutes, all pitted against eachother and each other. Surviving is not a matter of force put to action. It is not even a prospect. It is not. Determined to find out, but not predetermined. Terminus to germination being that bodies do not attract each other indefinitely. The eternal becoming is a figure of speech for the eternal disbanding. Things turn into other things. Or so much we may expect. The truth to the matter is that what we almost can stretch to define, are the fixed generalizations which, up to pace with our disappearing, make for a pleasant ride on the road of inevitability. Destiny can be preconceived, using refined techniques, for it is only a term in that sense, because we gave the combination of morphemes a meaning approximating the implications and limited ourselves to that extent. Now what if we would transcend, and turn inwards? Through that element of nature as contextualised and inspired to reveal itself to us in a multitude of ways, each the more distant for comprehension than the other. And the other is equally influenced by said rule. We have already stated terms elsewhere, that the advantages to the concavitytheory, and its bearing on the person, it goes without saying, is inward reflection on the outside, not the other way around, not around the other way. Neither snow, nor wind nor dirt in the machine. It is this friction free way of exposing what appears to be for what it is not. Being a blueprint is effecting that motion, and through an angle which seemingly does not even exist.Playing the part of villain in a world of martial law is impossible, since the laws of wayward bondings, would not stay welded together for long enough to have import on the future results of eventual change. Death is a door. But it is not a door out. We all face the same way, and turn in, not on. Being shadows cast on thin film in a fragile state in cosmos, mere projections of a dark past unto a conclusion more sombre still, contracting and dissolving is the end of all things, with only time, on their hands, that kills.Blot Mine June of 2001
Sounds Like: Swedish Black Metal with intense riffs, dark haunting melodies, intelligent lyrics and a tremendously feeling of vicious power infused into the entity this is, Blot Mine.
Record Label: Metal Fortress
Type of Label: Indie