Rosetta (band)
| Rosetta | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| origin |
 United States , Philadelphia
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| Genre (s) | Post metal |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | www.rosettaband.com |
| Current occupation | |
Singing , sound effects |
Michael Armine |
| J. Matthew Weed | |
| Bruce McMurtrie Jr. | |
| David Grossman | |
Rosetta is an American post-metal band from Philadelphia. Although the members are reluctant to use the term post metal, they play a pioneering role in this still young genre.
history
The members of Rosetta already knew each other in high school and previously played in various bands. At the last minute they decided to play a concert together on August 20, 2003, which, after only three rehearsals together, they were forced to improvise. After that, they decided to write more songs, play shows, and finally record their first demo in which they released four songs. This drew the attention of the Translation Loss Records label, which she signed. Their first album The Galilean Satellites from 2005 was an enormously ambitious project for a debut album. The album consists of two separate discs, one with more metal-oriented sounds, the other with ambient sound. The two CDs are designed in such a way that they can be played in parallel and thus combined. Initially planned as a single disc, so much material was generated that the band could fill two records. Rosetta's second release, Project Mercury, was a split EP with Balboa , released on April 24, 2007. After a US tour in July, the band's second album, Wake / Lift , was released on October 2, 2007 , again under Translation Loss. In addition to another US tour, the Americans toured Australia for the first time in June 2008. In 2009 another three-part split EP was released on vinyl with Year of No Light and East of the Wall . Her current third album A Determinism of Morality was released on May 25, 2010 and was recorded by Andrew Schneider.
style
Rosetta themselves often refer to their music as metal for astronauts . Even if this is meant with an ironic undertone, her quite serious interest in the universe is reflected in her subjects and song texts. In their music there are influences from genres such as post-hardcore , sludge , drone and ambient , their declared musical influences include Jeff Buckley or Stars of the Lid as well as the post-metal greats Isis and Neurosis . When asked about it, they distance themselves from both the term post and the genre metal itself. In general, they reject any categorization of their music. Musically, many of Rosetta's compositions are based on genre-typical sound carpets of electric guitar , bass and drums and the change from calm / quiet to intense / loud passages. The mostly deep growls from singer Michael Armine are superimposed . On their album A Determinism of Morality bassist David Grossman was heard for the first time in release , in which he contributed a passage with clean vocals.
Discography
- 2004: Demo (demo, self-published)
- 2005: The Galilean Satellites (Album, Translation Loss Records)
- 2007: Project Mercury (split EP with Balboa , Level Plane Records )
- 2007: Wake / Lift (Album, Translation Loss Records)
- 2007: The Cleansing Undertones of Wake / Lift (Album, Translation Loss Records)
- 2009: 3 Way Split (Split EP with Year of No Light and East of the Wall Translation Loss Records)
- 2010: A Determinism of Morality (Album, Translation Loss Records)
- 2011: Split (Split EP with Junius Translation Loss Records / The Mylene Sheath)
- 2013: The Anaesthete (Album, Debemur Morti )
- 2015: Quintessential Ephemera (Album, Golden Antenna)
- 2016: A Dead-Ender's Reunion (download compilation, self-published)
- 2017: Utopoid (download album, self-published)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Interview: Rosetta. indieworkshop.com, October 26, 2005, archived from the original on January 26, 2013 ; Retrieved June 18, 2010 .
- ^ Rosetta Reveals New Album. metalunderground.com, October 26, 2005, accessed June 18, 2010 .
- ^ Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites. lordsofmetal.nl, accessed on June 18, 2010 .
- ↑ a b The Rosetta Interview. (No longer available online.) Cwgmagazine.com, May 10, 2010, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved June 18, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rosetta. facebook.com, accessed June 18, 2010 .
- ↑ Interview of: Mike Armine - Rosetta. pyromusic.net, accessed June 18, 2010 .
