Five Albums That Changed My Life: Aaron Rosa of Palisades

Palisades, formerly known as Marilyn Is Dead, is a New Jersey-based band that fuses elements of both post-hardcore and pop-punk. The quintet recently released an EP entitled I'm Not Dying Today on Rise Records. Palisades will be touring this spring as part of Rise Records Freshmen Class of 12 Tour, along with label mates The Air I Breathe, My Ticket Home and Hands Like Houses. Tickets may be purchased at this link.

To help celebrate their upcoming tour, Palisades drummer took part in Noisecreep's 'Five Albums That Changed My Life' series.

Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin (1973)

"My dad being a rock musician himself, played classic rock everywhere he could. I was about 12-years-old when I started paying attention to what he was playing. The first song that I can remember legitimately listening too was "The Ocean", off Houses of the Holy. John Bonham -- who happens to be my favorite drummer -- counted off the song and the band came in, and at that point I thought, "this is the best fucking thing I ever heard." As a young kid who hated the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, and everything else, Led Zeppelin literally saved me. After "The Ocean" I listened to the rest of the album and I decided that I wanted to play drums just as good as Bonham. This album inspired me musically, but it also set the bar as far as what I wanted to be as a drummer."

Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, My Chemical Romance (2004)

"My Chemical Romance's major label debut was edgy, dark, fast, and everything I wanted to hear. I was in eighth grade when it came out, and it was liberating. It was a sound that was to me completely new, and different. MCR was my first introduction into the more relevant and modern rock music. If it wasn't for them, I would have never gotten into a lot of the bands that I listened to later on. This album also made want to start my first band. So it was a huge inspiration and life changing record for me and is still one of the albums I listen to on a regular basis."

With Roots Above and Branches Below, The Devil Wears Prada (2009)

"This album may be one of the best metal-core albums of all time. Every time Prada comes out with a new record, they more polished sounding and at the time this was the most polished they had ever sounded as well as maintaining their heavy and aggressive persona. Before this album I have always been into heavier bands, but this album made me really get into metal-core. This album made me really want to incorporate a much heavier influence into our band's sound. Mike Hranica's vocals are just purely badass and Daniel William's drumming is at such an intense level. He was and still is a game changing drummer and a huge inspiration to me. If it wasn't for this record, I don't know if "Palisades" would be the band it is today."

Innerpartysystem, Innerpartysystem (2008)

"This record is something special. It came out when dance rock was kinda bland, and they transcended what the genre is. The lyrics are completely honest, cynical, witty, and almost Nine Inch Nails-esque. A lot of the songs are very relatable and kind of say what you are afraid to say or even think. Think of it like being seduced to the dark side of the force haha, it was like that listening to this for the first time.

Meteora, Linkin Park (2003)

"This album, for me, is what was the bridge between a lot of genres, that today so many bands try to emulate still. Maybe not the rap aspect entirely, but a lot of what the songs are and sound like. It incorporated so many new sounds I had never heard at that time, and the listening to the album now make me appreciate what they did and realize how ahead of their time they were. This album is original and in my opinion a game changer for rock music."

Catch Palisades on tour with Hands Like Houses, The Air I Breathe and My Ticket Home:

5/2 Buffalo, NY @ Broadway Joe's

5/3 Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot Ballroom

5/4 Joliet, IL @ Mojoes

5/6 St. Paul, MN @ Station 4

5/9 Ogden, UT @ Mojo's

5/10 Sparks, NV @ The Alley

5/11 Camarillo, CA @ Rock City

5/12 San Diego, CA @ Epicentre

5/13 Los Angeles, CA @ Whisky A Go-Go

5/14 Mesa, AZ @ The Underground

5/16 Fort Worth, TX @ Tomcat's West

5/17 San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit

5/19 Little Rock, AR @ Downtown Music

5/20 Memphis, TN @ Newby's

5/21 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade

5/24 Greensboro, NC @ Greene St. Club

5/25 Richmond, VA @ Kingdom

5/26 Montclair, NJ @ The Chill

5/27 New York, NY @ Webster Hall