Artist: rosetta

Banner by Cysquatch Welcome to the new MetalSucks Question Of The Week, a (sorta) weekly survey of our staff on a recent hot-button issue that's rocking our metal planet. Fearless. Controversial. Half-baked. We give it to you straight every Friday afternoon. Okay not that straight. Here's this week's topic: Inspired by LA Weekly's list of the top ten [...]

"What are record labels for?" A few decades ago, this question would've sounded obtuse. But as album sales plummet and bands increasingly run their own business operations, it's become a pressing concern, especially for label owners. Thus far, the answer seems to be "curation." Labels succeed or fail based on their ability to establish a brand and drum up excitement around it. Fans take this curative function seriously, as Profound Lore Records' trans-genre success demonstrates. Other labels succeed by catering to specific niches. Willowtip rules technical death metal; Southern Lord handles doomy hardcore and hardcore-y doom; [...]

Yer Spring aus unserem Album der Woche der kanadischen Band Hey Rosetta, die heute mit Seeds ihr zweites Album auch in Deutschland veröffentlichen, in Kanada dürfen sich die Fans der Indierocker bereits seit letztem Jahr an diesem wirklich gut anrangierten Album erfreuen. Hey Rosetta - 'Yer Spring' in Kanada dürfen sich die Fans der Indierocker [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

FEATURING MEMBERS OF GOATWHORE, AGALLOCH, WARBRINGER, ROSETTA, ZEBULON PIKE, NOCTEM, THE WILL OF A MILLION, EXCOMMUNICATED, AND TRANSLATION LOSS RECORDS Every year year, MetalSucks asks musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year have been. Death metallers, thrash metallers, black metallers, [...]

So, hey, I dunno if you guys heard, but earlier this month we put on this totally rad festival, The Metal Suckfest? No big deal, it was just twenty awesome bands in two days, whatever. So ANYWAY, our brahs over at Metal Injection were there to film another edition of their awesome "Ask the Artist" series, [...]

We had a blast at The Metal Suckfest in NYC last weekend, but don't worry if you couldn't make it; earlier this week we shared Justina Villanueva's photos from Night 1 (featuring Municipal Waste, God Forbid, Today is the Day and more) and today we've got Mariel "Tormentia" Pietrykoski's photos from Night 2. After the [...]

The Metal Suckfest is this weekend!!! And in case you're not familiar with, or are somehow not sold on, the twenty incredible bands we've booked to play THE party of the year, we have scoured YouTube for recent live footage of ALL the artists playing the fest... so you can have a little taste of the [...]

The weekend is upon us. Here are some awesome new tunes to help you get the party started! Lacuna Coil is coming back around with a new album. The above is a little teaser for their new single, "Trip The Darkness," which hits iTunes this Tuesday, from their upcoming release, Dark Adrenaline which hits stores ...

The Inaugural Metal Suckfest is almost here!!!! Twenty bands will DESTROY The Gramercy Theatre on November 4 and 5, PLUS there's an awesome, five-band pre-party at the venue the night before, making this THE can't-miss hang of the year. Tickets are on sale now right here, and you can hit up the fest's official website for more info on [...]

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HUGE drop of new releases this week including much-anticipated new records from Mastodon and Machine Head, as well as a ton of excellent other stuff from Craft, Dead In The Dirt, Landmine Marathon and more. My release reviews are a bit shorter than usual just due to the sheer volume of material coming out this [...]

That's right! Tickets for The Metal Suckfest - the two day festival with a line-up so ridiculously awesome we can't believe we actually put this thing together - are ON SALE RIGHT NOW. You can buy tickets to Day 1 (November 4) or Day 2 (November 5) individually for thirty bucks a pop - that's [...]

Rosetta will be releasing a split with Boston's Junius on September 27 via Translation Loss. They recently premiered an epic slow-burner "TM-3" from the upcoming album via Brooklyn Vegan . You can stream the nearly ten minute track HERE . Rosetta will also be performing at an early show this Sunday at The Barbary alongside Oxbow, Salvation, and Blood Rhythm . (Photo by Andrew Weiss)

Our friends over at Metalsucks are throwing a pretty rad two-day rager that they're calling the Metal Suckfest, two days, twenty bands, and a lot of booze. The party happens on November 5th and 6th at the Gramercy in NYC. The first day will feature Municipal Waste, God Forbid, Today is the Day, Howl, Black ...

Click to enlarge the ridiculously sweet poster art by Rodney Githens from Vertebrae 33 and Metal Band Art When we first announced The Metal Suckfest, we promised you that it was NOT just a bunch of tours already-in-progress, routed so that they all converge for one event. That it was NOT just bands that all sound alike [...]

Junius and Rosetta recently premiered songs from their upcoming split together, due out September 27, 2011 via Translation Loss . Rosetta's "TM-3" can be heard at BrooklynVegan and Junius' "A Dark Day With Night" is streaming via Alternative Press .

Earthquakes. Hurricanes. New records by The Devil Wears Prada. Come at us, brah! We can survive anything. Here's what we did while shit conspired to kill us: We debuted new music by East of the Wall and 400 Blows. We spoke to Amos Williams from TesseracT about the band's recent vocalist swap. We checked out the [...]

We really cannot wait to share with you the entire lineup of the inaugural Metal Suckfest, our very own metal festival in New York City featuring 20 bands over the course of two full days; you will like, very, very much! Last week we unveiled Cynic and Municipal Waste as the headliners. You're gonna have [...]

Sometimes the best thing you can say about a record is that it's fine, and sometimes the worst thing you can say about a record is that it's fine. Hey Rosetta!'s Seeds? It's fine. I've enjoyed Seeds, but in the way I enjoy Jackie Collins novels or reruns of The Real World: as something of a [...]

It's only inevitable that, in the current swath of reuniting bands, that Hopesfall would follow suit. The lineup from the EP have gotten back together to play two shows in their homebase of South Caroline, lifting material from their first three releases: Frailty of Words , No Wings to Speak Of , and The Satellite Years . Show details are after the jump. If you're like the staff at Buzzgrinder you were amazed by their refreshing take on melodic hardcore that gave rise to dozens of bands echoing their style. [...]