Rosetta

Rosetta frontman Mike Armine has a reputation for being a noise manipulator, trafficking in dark, ambient and droney music that'll loosen your teeth from your gums. His solo debut, The Cleansing Undertones of Wake/Lift, dropped in 2007 and has since been remastered and coupled as a double album with this newest effort, Verse...

Philadelphia quartet Rosetta have revealed their brand new song, 'Revolve,' from their forthcoming, seven-song album, 'A Determinism of Morality,' which is due out via Translation Loss on May 25. The first two minutes are instrumental, steadily building to a slow metallic and paralyzing boil...

"This is the closest we'll play to home before we head back out West. So it feels like a hometown show," Caspian frontman Philip Jamieson said on April 15. The post-rockers are from New England, so New York City is still a stretch from home...

Rosetta's show at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Public Assembly on March 28 was never advertised as a new album listening party. Yet, just before the band began their set guitarist J. Matthew Weed told the crowd, "Our next album is coming out May 25." "Whoa...

On Feb. 20, East of the Wall played their record release show with split-mates Rosetta. But this Noisecreep writer was not at that show. Instead, this Noisecreep writer was at a show where East of the Wall only played a 30-minute set. Everyone wanted more at New York City's Lit Lounge on Feb...

Even the most inspired, creative metal band can find itself in a writing rut every now and then. Battlefields are consciously trying to shake things up. Vocalist Rusty Steele told Noisecreep, "We have been writing new material, which has quicker progressions and less space to get our point across...

Translation Loss Records is one of the best boutique metal labels in today's scene, focusing on quality over quantity with its releases. So it makes sense that the label developed a tour to spotlight its brand. "Creating a Translation Loss Records Tour package was an idea that Battlefields brought to the table a while back," Battlefields' vocalist Rusty Steele told Noisecreep... Read Mo

Rosetta have been locked away in the studio with Andrew Schneider since the first weekend in November, and bassist Dave Grossman recently told Noisecreep that "the experience has been amazing thus far. Working with Andrew has made us a better band...