rolo tomassi: time will die and love will bury it (2018)

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idk if i'll hear a more impressive record this year. i was really into their previous album even though i think it got by more on velocity than songcraft. this one has the songs, which allows the extremely fractured metalcore to join p seamlessly with the glittery emo/post-rockish parts. there are also several weird synthy and/or jazzy digressions; it's probably one of the most dynamic records i've ever heard. i keep describing them as "converge and paramore at once" but neither comparison really encompasses their whole thing nor are they deep enough. elliott's false cathedrals as played by early cave-in maybe? idk, i can't believe this music exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdyg8k5qZFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSQYs8KancA

https://rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/time-will-die-and-love-will-bury-it

Brad!!

:)

i will check this out

brad I'm so glad you're back to help me flip out over this record because I got nowhere trying to promote it on the metal thread and it didn't feel right to try on the emo thread

Eva's vocals are sort of unbelievable? I mentioned elsewhere that her clean vocals remind me of Andrea Zollo but her harsh vocals sound like a completely different person

I listened to some of it via the metal thread and liked "Aftermath". Something about the screamy mathcore tracks hasn't clicked yet.

I love the way "Aftermath" and the long intro track lull you in and then "Rituals" completely breaks the peace. Brave way to open a record.

Also, the big synth washes on "A Flood of Light" are deeply satisfying

this is sounding v exciting. holy shit 'balancing the dark' has just begun whoooooa

this band never quite did it for me before but this is the assumption of the sceptre oceansize dropped

except different

I do like the Vangelis-y stuff in "A Flood Of Light"

This is the best thing I've ever heard

i haven't listened to this band since i saw them live in 07/08 (was a great show and they were ridiculously young) but i should check this out maybe

I thought they were just like a little math rock band who I occasionally liked a bit. This is totally different and wildly ambitious! Thank you, Brad! (And sorry Simon H for not spying this in the metal thread)

i haven't listened to this band since i saw them live in 07/08 (was a great show and they were ridiculously young) but i should check this out maybe

yeah I saw them a couple of times at about that time (I dug them though they were a little too screamy for my taste and I preferred Cutting Pink With Knives who I think were on the same bill both times) but had no idea they were even still together - p surprising for a band that started so young, well done to them. will check this out!

Yeah, still incredible the next day. Balancing The Dark is preposterously good

god this album

extremely good. I hope it made it to all the right ears.

second best 2018 mathcore album after 'only love' ;)

Both in my top...five? of the year so far though - no other metal albums have come close

way too many artists releasing their best albums ever this year but this is one of them

anyone who came onboard for this one, pls check out the previous album, which is slightly less crazily ambitious but imho just as good

xpost, who are some others, Brad?

hi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA315mvXrCs

https://rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/where-myth-becomes-memory?from=embed

new album out in february

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yVxzkR1GjI

somebody else on ilx please listen to this mindblowing record with me

I'll do so tonight, got work now unfortunately. Happy to read your thoughts on it first!

i don't have many thoughts other than "this shit rips" and "the beautiful and the brutal have never been better integrated"

very promising. did have a good feeling about this one

"mutual ruin" is destroying me

wow @ this opening track

loving this

what are they trying to do to me with 'labyrinthine'

the rest doesn't QUITE live up to those first four tracks, but, awesome album

man, closer is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByTR5OKmVCY

they're back

oh lmao this is from an EP that came out last year that i completely missed