{"title":"Rosetta","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"rosetta-utopioid-cd","title":"ROSETTA \/\/ UTOPIOID - CD","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eROSETTA \/\/ UTOPIOID - CD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRELEASE DATE: 19\/1\/2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eROSETTA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereturns in 2017 with „\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUtopioid\u003c\/em\u003e“, their sixth full-length album and most concept-driven work to date. Written as a four-part song cycle that treads multipolar extremes of texture, dynamics, and harmony, it reaches the highest heights and the deepest lows of the band’s career. An unflinching study of human aspiration, frailty, and betrayal, the album is equal parts mysticism and the band’s own biography, encapsulating and transcending the band’s 14 years of sonic experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormed in Philadelphia in 2003 as a four-piece,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eROSETTA\u003c\/strong\u003e‘s first two albums—2005’s „\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Galilean Satellites\u003c\/em\u003e“ and 2007’s „\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWake\/Lift\u003c\/em\u003e“ – pulled together elements from 90s hardcore, drone, doom, and atmospheric sludge metal. Informed as much by the minimal soundscapes of STARS OF THE LID as by the pulverizing weight of GODFLESH, the band’s compositions had a spaced- out, exploratory feel, appropriately dubbed “metal for astronauts.” 2010’s „\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Determinism of Morality\u003c\/em\u003e“ moved on from celestial themes, focusing on increased melodic sophistication while honing a confrontational urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter concluding a decade-long partnership with Translation Loss Records in 2013,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eROSETTA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eembraced their newfound independence with the self-funded, pay-as-you-wish album „\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Anaesthete\u003c\/em\u003e“. The darkest, most unsettling album of the band’s career also marked their greatest success so far, recouping costs in 24 hours and remaining the top-selling release on Bandcamp for nearly a month.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2015’s „\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQuintessential Ephemera\u003c\/em\u003e“, ROSETTA’s first effort as a five-piece, received widespread critical and audience acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith „\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUtopioid\u003c\/em\u003e“, ROSETTA has again upended their stylistic palette. 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2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFor more than two decades, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRosetta\u003c\/i\u003e have developed a distinctive blend of heaviness and atmosphere, weaving the physical force of metal and hardcore and the spaciousness textuality of ambient music. After a hiatus filled with turbulent years, they return as bold and adventurous as ever with ‘Temporal Lapse’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“In late 2019 when we began working on the songs, we intended to focus on climate change. As we explored that concept, we became interested in the grief \/ loss dimension of environmental destruction -essentially, the human experience of loss as nature gives way to something else. However, in 2020 the pandemic stopped the whole process cold, and it took years to get started again. In that time, a lot of personal grief and loss happened. I lost my house to a fire in 2022. Eric and I both lost our dads. Rather than looking at climate change through the lens of grief and loss, we ended up looking at personal grief and loss through the imagery of climate change and apocalypse.“ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e(Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThough long awaited, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRosetta’s\u003c\/i\u003e album ‘Temporal Lapse’ shows a band in the full bloom of their maturity. The album is one of resilience and passion, evoking our personal and shared tribulations through their signature synthesis of vulnerability and power. A fuller wall of sound is reached in the harmonies and crushing flights, heavier passages are increasingly intertwined with melodic and textural elements, along with cleaner vocal approaches, electronics and more elaborate guitar arrangements, all create a greater contrast within the compositions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“We have always begun with a concept and written music first, then lyrics after the arrangements are complete. The whole process is collaborative -- no single person owns any individual element of the writing. That has stayed the same on this release.“ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e(Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eVocalist and electronics musician Mike Armine is a source of raw intensity, cutting through the band's densest passages and functioning as another layer within the music's wider atmosphere. His use of samples and electronic elements introduces additional depth and ambiguity, expanding the band's palette. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eDavid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e Grossman on bass provides much of the band's low-frequency foundation. His playing reinforces the physical weight of the guitars while contributing to the movement and tonal character, both he and Eric Jernigan add a bittersweet vocal contrast, and Jernigan’s guitar work allows the band to build more intricate relationships between melodic lines. Then there is the backbone, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eBruce McMurtrie’s rapid, dynamic percussion that both serves and sustains.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“We took a full week doing drums in a 1920s stone church sanctuary outside Philadelphia, leaning heavily on the incredible acoustics of that space. Incidentally, that church building is where the very first Rosetta rehearsal happened in June 2003! It felt good to come back around and use that building again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eWe did guitars and bass a month later (August 2024) at the Radar Studio in Connecticut, owned by Will Benoit from Pelagic labelmates SOM. Then there was another long hiatus after the birth of my son. We finally got together to write and record all the vocals in Austin Texas in December of 2025, which took ten days.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eRosetta exhibits the ability to both obliterate and to intoxicate. ‘The Pale Cast Of Thought’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e is heavy, intense and weighted with desperation. ‘Dvora’ creates tension through hypnotic melody, pre-battle drums and the rising swell of distortion, turning smokey and shadowy with the help of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eJohnny Dang of the band \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eO'brother\u003c\/i\u003e on slide guitar, piano, and synths. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFinally we have ‘Ribbon Of Dawn’. Beginning in a raging, thrashing blaze, the track switches into an idyllically tinged hopefulness, vibrant and hypnotic, until the melodies complexify and grow heavy and charge toward the threshold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“In terms of the question \"how do I deal with loss?\" -- we landed on this dichotomy of shattering vs shaping experiences. Staying the same person you were before a major loss isn't actually possible. 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Through emotional clarity and the curation of its nuance, they achieve the human contradiction of being enormous and intimate, abrasive and beautiful, turbulent and meditative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“This is the final album. We're not breaking up; there's always openness to doing interesting things together in the future. But even as far back as 2019, we intended to release one more full length as a capstone, do a \"victory lap\" tour around the world, and then be done with Rosetta as it existed before.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Thing Music Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51340740428028,"sku":null,"price":74.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/5869\/1187\/files\/1_PEL343-Rosetta_TheWInepressEdition_330__2.png?v=1789719211"},{"product_id":"rosetta-temporal-lapse-digisleeve-cd","title":"ROSETTA \/\/ TEMPORAL LAPSE - DIGISLEEVE CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROSETTA \/\/ TEMPORAL LAPSE - DIGISLEEVE CD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRELEASE DATE: November 27th, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFor more than two decades, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRosetta\u003c\/i\u003e have developed a distinctive blend of heaviness and atmosphere, weaving the physical force of metal and hardcore and the spaciousness textuality of ambient music. After a hiatus filled with turbulent years, they return as bold and adventurous as ever with ‘Temporal Lapse’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“In late 2019 when we began working on the songs, we intended to focus on climate change. As we explored that concept, we became interested in the grief \/ loss dimension of environmental destruction -essentially, the human experience of loss as nature gives way to something else. However, in 2020 the pandemic stopped the whole process cold, and it took years to get started again. In that time, a lot of personal grief and loss happened. I lost my house to a fire in 2022. Eric and I both lost our dads. Rather than looking at climate change through the lens of grief and loss, we ended up looking at personal grief and loss through the imagery of climate change and apocalypse.“ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e(Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThough long awaited, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRosetta’s\u003c\/i\u003e album ‘Temporal Lapse’ shows a band in the full bloom of their maturity. The album is one of resilience and passion, evoking our personal and shared tribulations through their signature synthesis of vulnerability and power. A fuller wall of sound is reached in the harmonies and crushing flights, heavier passages are increasingly intertwined with melodic and textural elements, along with cleaner vocal approaches, electronics and more elaborate guitar arrangements, all create a greater contrast within the compositions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“We have always begun with a concept and written music first, then lyrics after the arrangements are complete. The whole process is collaborative -- no single person owns any individual element of the writing. That has stayed the same on this release.“ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e(Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eVocalist and electronics musician Mike Armine is a source of raw intensity, cutting through the band's densest passages and functioning as another layer within the music's wider atmosphere. His use of samples and electronic elements introduces additional depth and ambiguity, expanding the band's palette. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eDavid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e Grossman on bass provides much of the band's low-frequency foundation. His playing reinforces the physical weight of the guitars while contributing to the movement and tonal character, both he and Eric Jernigan add a bittersweet vocal contrast, and Jernigan’s guitar work allows the band to build more intricate relationships between melodic lines. Then there is the backbone, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eBruce McMurtrie’s rapid, dynamic percussion that both serves and sustains.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“We took a full week doing drums in a 1920s stone church sanctuary outside Philadelphia, leaning heavily on the incredible acoustics of that space. Incidentally, that church building is where the very first Rosetta rehearsal happened in June 2003! It felt good to come back around and use that building again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eWe did guitars and bass a month later (August 2024) at the Radar Studio in Connecticut, owned by Will Benoit from Pelagic labelmates SOM. Then there was another long hiatus after the birth of my son. We finally got together to write and record all the vocals in Austin Texas in December of 2025, which took ten days.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eRosetta exhibits the ability to both obliterate and to intoxicate. ‘The Pale Cast Of Thought’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e is heavy, intense and weighted with desperation. ‘Dvora’ creates tension through hypnotic melody, pre-battle drums and the rising swell of distortion, turning smokey and shadowy with the help of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eJohnny Dang of the band \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eO'brother\u003c\/i\u003e on slide guitar, piano, and synths. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFinally we have ‘Ribbon Of Dawn’. Beginning in a raging, thrashing blaze, the track switches into an idyllically tinged hopefulness, vibrant and hypnotic, until the melodies complexify and grow heavy and charge toward the threshold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“In terms of the question \"how do I deal with loss?\" -- we landed on this dichotomy of shattering vs shaping experiences. Staying the same person you were before a major loss isn't actually possible. So in the middle of all those facets of grieving, you have to keep asking yourself: will I be shattered or shaped by this experience?“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eTemporal Lapse brings the density, volume and scope that has always characterised Rosetta, while continuingly exploring a sense of space, melody and reflection. Through emotional clarity and the curation of its nuance, they achieve the human contradiction of being enormous and intimate, abrasive and beautiful, turbulent and meditative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“This is the final album. We're not breaking up; there's always openness to doing interesting things together in the future. But even as far back as 2019, we intended to release one more full length as a capstone, do a \"victory lap\" tour around the world, and then be done with Rosetta as it existed before.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wild Thing Music Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51340751864060,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/5869\/1187\/files\/2_PEL343-Rosetta_CD.jpg?v=1789719408"},{"product_id":"rosetta-temporal-lapse-ribbon-of-dawn-edition-vinyl-lp","title":"ROSETTA \/\/ TEMPORAL LAPSE - RIBBON OF DAWN EDITION VINYL (2LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROSETTA \/\/ TEMPORAL LAPSE - RIBBON OF DAWN EDITION VINYL (2LP)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRELEASE DATE: November 27th, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFor more than two decades, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRosetta\u003c\/i\u003e have developed a distinctive blend of heaviness and atmosphere, weaving the physical force of metal and hardcore and the spaciousness textuality of ambient music. After a hiatus filled with turbulent years, they return as bold and adventurous as ever with ‘Temporal Lapse’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“In late 2019 when we began working on the songs, we intended to focus on climate change. As we explored that concept, we became interested in the grief \/ loss dimension of environmental destruction -essentially, the human experience of loss as nature gives way to something else. However, in 2020 the pandemic stopped the whole process cold, and it took years to get started again. In that time, a lot of personal grief and loss happened. I lost my house to a fire in 2022. Eric and I both lost our dads. Rather than looking at climate change through the lens of grief and loss, we ended up looking at personal grief and loss through the imagery of climate change and apocalypse.“ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e(Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThough long awaited, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRosetta’s\u003c\/i\u003e album ‘Temporal Lapse’ shows a band in the full bloom of their maturity. The album is one of resilience and passion, evoking our personal and shared tribulations through their signature synthesis of vulnerability and power. A fuller wall of sound is reached in the harmonies and crushing flights, heavier passages are increasingly intertwined with melodic and textural elements, along with cleaner vocal approaches, electronics and more elaborate guitar arrangements, all create a greater contrast within the compositions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“We have always begun with a concept and written music first, then lyrics after the arrangements are complete. The whole process is collaborative -- no single person owns any individual element of the writing. That has stayed the same on this release.“ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e(Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eVocalist and electronics musician Mike Armine is a source of raw intensity, cutting through the band's densest passages and functioning as another layer within the music's wider atmosphere. His use of samples and electronic elements introduces additional depth and ambiguity, expanding the band's palette. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eDavid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e Grossman on bass provides much of the band's low-frequency foundation. His playing reinforces the physical weight of the guitars while contributing to the movement and tonal character, both he and Eric Jernigan add a bittersweet vocal contrast, and Jernigan’s guitar work allows the band to build more intricate relationships between melodic lines. Then there is the backbone, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eBruce McMurtrie’s rapid, dynamic percussion that both serves and sustains.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“We took a full week doing drums in a 1920s stone church sanctuary outside Philadelphia, leaning heavily on the incredible acoustics of that space. Incidentally, that church building is where the very first Rosetta rehearsal happened in June 2003! It felt good to come back around and use that building again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eWe did guitars and bass a month later (August 2024) at the Radar Studio in Connecticut, owned by Will Benoit from Pelagic labelmates SOM. Then there was another long hiatus after the birth of my son. We finally got together to write and record all the vocals in Austin Texas in December of 2025, which took ten days.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eRosetta exhibits the ability to both obliterate and to intoxicate. ‘The Pale Cast Of Thought’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e is heavy, intense and weighted with desperation. ‘Dvora’ creates tension through hypnotic melody, pre-battle drums and the rising swell of distortion, turning smokey and shadowy with the help of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eJohnny Dang of the band \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eO'brother\u003c\/i\u003e on slide guitar, piano, and synths. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFinally we have ‘Ribbon Of Dawn’. Beginning in a raging, thrashing blaze, the track switches into an idyllically tinged hopefulness, vibrant and hypnotic, until the melodies complexify and grow heavy and charge toward the threshold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“In terms of the question \"how do I deal with loss?\" -- we landed on this dichotomy of shattering vs shaping experiences. Staying the same person you were before a major loss isn't actually possible. So in the middle of all those facets of grieving, you have to keep asking yourself: will I be shattered or shaped by this experience?“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eTemporal Lapse brings the density, volume and scope that has always characterised Rosetta, while continuingly exploring a sense of space, melody and reflection. Through emotional clarity and the curation of its nuance, they achieve the human contradiction of being enormous and intimate, abrasive and beautiful, turbulent and meditative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“This is the final album. We're not breaking up; there's always openness to doing interesting things together in the future. But even as far back as 2019, we intended to release one more full length as a capstone, do a \"victory lap\" tour around the world, and then be done with Rosetta as it existed before.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Thing Music Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51340773556476,"sku":null,"price":74.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/5869\/1187\/files\/1_PEL343-Rosetta_RibbonofDawnEdition_2_a00eddb7-b6b6-4d73-b0fb-48c7ee4405f7.png?v=1789719759"},{"product_id":"rosetta-temporal-lapse-t-shirt","title":"ROSETTA \/\/ TEMPORAL LAPSE - T-SHIRT","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROSETTA \/\/ TEMPORAL LAPSE - T-SHIRT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRELEASE DATE: November 27th, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFor more than two decades, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRosetta\u003c\/i\u003e have developed a distinctive blend of heaviness and atmosphere, weaving the physical force of metal and hardcore and the spaciousness textuality of ambient music. After a hiatus filled with turbulent years, they return as bold and adventurous as ever with ‘Temporal Lapse’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“In late 2019 when we began working on the songs, we intended to focus on climate change. As we explored that concept, we became interested in the grief \/ loss dimension of environmental destruction -essentially, the human experience of loss as nature gives way to something else. However, in 2020 the pandemic stopped the whole process cold, and it took years to get started again. In that time, a lot of personal grief and loss happened. I lost my house to a fire in 2022. Eric and I both lost our dads. Rather than looking at climate change through the lens of grief and loss, we ended up looking at personal grief and loss through the imagery of climate change and apocalypse.“ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e(Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThough long awaited, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRosetta’s\u003c\/i\u003e album ‘Temporal Lapse’ shows a band in the full bloom of their maturity. The album is one of resilience and passion, evoking our personal and shared tribulations through their signature synthesis of vulnerability and power. A fuller wall of sound is reached in the harmonies and crushing flights, heavier passages are increasingly intertwined with melodic and textural elements, along with cleaner vocal approaches, electronics and more elaborate guitar arrangements, all create a greater contrast within the compositions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“We have always begun with a concept and written music first, then lyrics after the arrangements are complete. The whole process is collaborative -- no single person owns any individual element of the writing. That has stayed the same on this release.“ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e(Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eVocalist and electronics musician Mike Armine is a source of raw intensity, cutting through the band's densest passages and functioning as another layer within the music's wider atmosphere. His use of samples and electronic elements introduces additional depth and ambiguity, expanding the band's palette. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eDavid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e Grossman on bass provides much of the band's low-frequency foundation. His playing reinforces the physical weight of the guitars while contributing to the movement and tonal character, both he and Eric Jernigan add a bittersweet vocal contrast, and Jernigan’s guitar work allows the band to build more intricate relationships between melodic lines. Then there is the backbone, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eBruce McMurtrie’s rapid, dynamic percussion that both serves and sustains.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“We took a full week doing drums in a 1920s stone church sanctuary outside Philadelphia, leaning heavily on the incredible acoustics of that space. Incidentally, that church building is where the very first Rosetta rehearsal happened in June 2003! It felt good to come back around and use that building again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eWe did guitars and bass a month later (August 2024) at the Radar Studio in Connecticut, owned by Will Benoit from Pelagic labelmates SOM. Then there was another long hiatus after the birth of my son. We finally got together to write and record all the vocals in Austin Texas in December of 2025, which took ten days.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eRosetta exhibits the ability to both obliterate and to intoxicate. ‘The Pale Cast Of Thought’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e is heavy, intense and weighted with desperation. ‘Dvora’ creates tension through hypnotic melody, pre-battle drums and the rising swell of distortion, turning smokey and shadowy with the help of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003eJohnny Dang of the band \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eO'brother\u003c\/i\u003e on slide guitar, piano, and synths. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFinally we have ‘Ribbon Of Dawn’. Beginning in a raging, thrashing blaze, the track switches into an idyllically tinged hopefulness, vibrant and hypnotic, until the melodies complexify and grow heavy and charge toward the threshold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“In terms of the question \"how do I deal with loss?\" -- we landed on this dichotomy of shattering vs shaping experiences. Staying the same person you were before a major loss isn't actually possible. So in the middle of all those facets of grieving, you have to keep asking yourself: will I be shattered or shaped by this experience?“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e (Matt Weed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eTemporal Lapse brings the density, volume and scope that has always characterised Rosetta, while continuingly exploring a sense of space, melody and reflection. Through emotional clarity and the curation of its nuance, they achieve the human contradiction of being enormous and intimate, abrasive and beautiful, turbulent and meditative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222;\"\u003e“This is the final album. We're not breaking up; there's always openness to doing interesting things together in the future. 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