Rosetta – A Determinism of Morality

Releasedate: 25-05-2010; Label: Translation Loss
By: Sabine van Gameren

Philadelphia quartet Rosetta push the boundaries between metal, progressive rock, post-rock, space rock, and hardcore punk, providing an experimental songwriting technique filled with chaos and atmospherics. Their new album is called “A Determinism of Morality”

The band comes in brutal from the scratch. The vocals, but also the drums being interesting, often searching for that way to stand out a bit. What the band uses to make the atmosphere and built the tension is often the guitars. Sometimes it seems driven on that, but in other songs you see more the total band bringing the outcome as it is. Rosetta brings their story on a calm way, never too abrupt changes taking time for building things up. This makes it all a bit longer, the climax gets flat and maybe less intense while the whole music goes deep.
A surprise comes with the clean vocals that are included at the right moment, giving the album a bit sugar, not letting it carry away in deepness. A bit of a lifeguard keeping your head out of the water, to save you from drowning. This, because the band has a bit of a tendency to let you get drown, let the music swallow you.
If you have the control at yourself, Rosetta is a band that might be interesting for you. For those who get sucked into music deepness, Rosetta maybe a band that goes to deep to climb out of.

Line Up:
Michael Armine – vocals, sound manipulation
James Matthew Weed – guitar, violin
David Grossman – bass guitar, vocals
Bruce McMurtrie Jr. – drums

Tracklist: 01. Ayil 02. Je N’en Connais Pas la Fin 03. Blue Day for Croatoa 04. Release 05. Revolve 06. Renew 07. A Determinism of Morality

Links:
Rosetta MySpace
Rosetta Official