Rosetta announce final album ‘Temporal Lapse’

ROSETTA have announced a brand new, and their final, album!

The Philadelphia post-metal pioneers have revealed their new album, Temporal Lapse, which is scheduled for release on November 27th via Pelagic Records. The upcoming record follows the band’s 2019 EPs Terra Sola and Sower Of Wind and marks the first full-length release from ROSETTA since 2017’s Utopioid. Significantly, the band have confirmed that Temporal Lapse will serve as their final studio album, bringing their two-decade journey to a deliberate close.

Discussing the album’s evolution, guitarist Matt Weed explains, “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.”

On the decision to make Temporal Lapse the band’s final album, Weed adds, “this is the final album. We’re not breaking up; there’s always openness to doing interesting things together in the future. But even as far back as 2019, we intended to release one more full length as a capstone, do a ‘victory lap’ tour around the world, and then be done with ROSETTA as it existed before.”

To coincide with the announcement, ROSETTA have also unveiled The Native Hue Of Resolution, the first single to be taken from the forthcoming record. Speaking about the new track, the band shares, “sometimes deep grief can provoke a strange ambivalence: isolation is both a comfort and its own particular misery.”

Listen to The Native Hue Of Resolution here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Curl Up And Deny
2. The Winepress
3. Dvora
4. Self-Dealing Position
5. The Native Hue Of Resolution
6. The Pale Cast Of Thought
7. Ribbon Of Dawn
8. Epilogue

Temporal Lapse is set for release on November 27th via Pelagic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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