ROSETTA
TEMPORAL LAPSE

For more than two decades, Rosetta 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’.

“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.“ (Matt Weed)

Though long awaited, Rosetta’s 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.