Nuclear Summer.

MONOLITH and NO HEROES MAGAZINE present…

ROSETTA (USA) – ‘A DETERMINISM OF AUSTRALIA 2012’ – w/ CITY OF SHIPS (USA), and NUCLEAR SUMMER

Philadelphian post-metal entity ROSETTA is set to return to Australia this July/August for no less than 15 dates. Having captivated Australian audiences with an overwhelmingly powerful live show as a relatively unknown band making their first international voyage back in 2008, the four-piece went on to release their critically acclaimed third album ‘A Determinism of Morality’ in 2010. In the years since they’ve been a part of various split releases with Year of No Light, East of The Wall, Restorations, and Junius, as well as having undertaken multiple European tours and performed with acts as mighty as Neurosis, Hopesfall and Old Man Gloom. The tour is set to be professionally filmed and included in the band’s forthcoming documentary release.

This time fellow US group and partners in crime CITY OF SHIPS are also along for the ride. Defying specific classification with an eclectic mixture of epic and grooving sounds, the band’s awing second album ‘Minor World’, released in 2011, saw comparisons to latter-career Thrice, Cave In and Isis.

Brisbane-based and self-proclaimed ‘sunshine metal’ group NUCLEAR SUMMER will round out the tour. Having released their extremely diverse self-titled debut album late last year, the band’s rising activity has recently seen them slotted onto supports with such international groups as La Dispute and The Ocean.

25.07 Perth @ The Rosemount – 18+ *
26.07 Perth @ TBC *
27.07 Brisbane @ Sun Distortion – AA
28.07 Sydney @ The Sandringham Hotel – 18+
29.07 Wollongong @ Yours & Owls – AA
30.07 Sydney @ Black Wire Records – AA
01.08 Canberra @ Bar 32 – 18+
02.08 Melbourne @ The Curtin Bandroom – 18+
03.08 Geelong @ The National Hotel 18+
04.08 Melbourne @ Black Goat Warehouse – AA
05.08 Adelaide @ Enigma Bar – 18+
06.08 Adelaide @ Animal House – AA
07.08 Melbourne @ The Bendigo – 18+
08.08 Newcastle @ The Great Northern – 18+
09.08 Brisbane @ The Zoo – 18+

* no City of Ships

Local supports and information on pre-sold tickets will be announced in the coming weeks.

We are still on the lookout for an appropriate ALL AGES venue in Perth – please forward any suggestions to lochlan@monolithmonolith.com.

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Poster by Benjamin Breitenstein at Aureate.

We’re totally stoked to be playing two shows with amazing THE OCEAN from Germany/Switzerland this month.

Wednesday 23 at The Annandale Hotel, Sydney
The Ocean w/ Lo!, Nuclear Summer, At Dark

Thursday 24 at The Zoo, Brisbane
The Ocean w/ Lo!, Nuclear Summer, Dead Letter Opener

This coming week we are recording a split with a band from Melbourne called Stockades. Production duties will be handled by Chris Brownbill at Sun Distortion Studios. You can check out their demo on Bandcamp. Expect a 7″ release to come later this year through MONOLITH.

We’re playing a new song this Thursday.

This is a song sent to every discredit
To any ounce of lack of faith in the self
Had I lived for another’s vision this true reality would never have arisen

What will you see in your reflection the day before you die?

I don’t want to face a deathbed decay
Wondering what could have been on that day
To sell short your dreams on half-sunk self-esteem
Because you gave up before the dawn arrived

What did you gain?
The stability of mediocrity across an ever-dulling plane
An abundance of time wasted like sleep-in sick days

The sun across my face presents a convincing enough case
To live for me, myself, and no-one else

To clear the corners of the globe with the eyes that are my own
And ride not with but against the tide 

We are pleased to be playing two shows on Let Me Down Jungleman’s EP launch tour! Make More will also be joining us.

Wednesday March 14th – YAC, Byron Bay
w/ BREAK A LEG

Friday March 16th – Between The Walls, South Brisbane
w/ LITTLE SHADOW

Both shows ALL AGES, $10.

Limited to 300 copies. Buy it now from monolithmonolith.bigcartel.com.

We play at Between The Walls on Feb 9 with La Dispute and We Set Sale! Buy tickets here.

Nuclear Summer ‘The Warrior Poet’ Official Music Video / 2011 from David Owen Blackley on Vimeo.

There has been a few changes to venues/bands etc.. all the new details below! See you soon Australia!

Wednesday 7 – Bar 32, Canberra 18+
w/ Venom Eyes, Machina Genova, Spastics

Thursday 8 – Hot Damn, Sydney 18+
w/ Sights & Sounds, Grenadiers, One Vital Word, Chasing Ghosts

Friday 9 – East Brunswick Club, Melbourne 18+
w/ Coerce, Black Level Embassy, Palisades

Saturday 10 – The Exeter, Adelaide 18+
w/ Patriarchal Death Machine, Friends

Sunday 11 – Squatter’s Arms, Adelaide 18+
w/ Robotosaurus, Valiant Jones, Nebraska

Tuesday 13 – Midian Rehearsals, Melbourne AA
w/ TBC

Wednesday 14 – Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle 18+
w/ Safe Hands, I The Hunter

Thursday 15 – TBC
w/ Lo!, Fixtures

Friday 16 – The Patch, Wollongong 18+
w/ Nice Guys, The Reverend Jesse Custer, The Brave

Saturday 17 – The Shed, Byron Bay AA
w/ Infinite Thought Process, Waiting Room, Shortlife, Exiles

Monday 26 – Billionaire, Brisbane 18+
w/ Mourning Tide, Tyrants, Amberain

Friday 30 – House Show, Sunshine Coast AA
w/ Ansieta, Dead Frogs, Laeirs

Saturday 31 – Sun Distortion Studios, Brisbane AA
w/ Raein, Quiet Steps, Palisades, IDYLLS, Make More, Travels