Rosetta Stone - Goths don’t fear the Reaper
Los Angeles, California: One of the longest surviving of all the second wave goth bands, Rosetta Stone return with a sensational new single, trailing the release of their latest full length, Nothing Is Sacred, with a song that truly lives up to the album’s title. Nothing is sacred, and that includes half-century old Blue Oyster Cult classic rockers.
The opening track on the album, “Don’t Fear The Reaper,” of course, requires no introduction.
Even if someone has avoided ever hearing the original, they need still to negotiate covers from as far afield as Apollo 440, Goo Goo Dolls, Heaven 17 and the unmatchable union of Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin!
From the moment Rosetta Stone’s version kicks in, however, it’s clear that they have taken the song to a whole new level. That familiar guitar pattern - described by frontman Porl King as “one of music's greatest riffs of all time” - is utterly sublimated by the sonorous seductivity of his so-understated vocal, and the lyrics take on whole new determination, too. And, if that’s not enough, King reveals something else about this new version.
“I think perhaps the most controversial aspect of this track was deciding not to include a cowbell.”
SINGLE: https://orcd.co/rosettastone_dontfearthereaper
Rosetta Stone’’s second album in less than a year, a lightning fast successor to 2024’s acclaimed Under The Weather, Nothing Is Sacred kicks off with audacity, then - and it doesn’t let up.
Rosetta Stone translate, too, the music of Soundgarden, Cream, Black Sabbath, The Beatles and Fleetwood Mac (a deliciously dark reinvention of “The Chain” - you will never describe Mac as an AOR band again!), all piling up alongside a pounding, near martial ride aboard Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine” - goths in space indeed!
ALBUM: https://orcd.co/rosettastone_nothingissacred
CD/VINYL: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=rosetta+stone+nothing+is+sacred
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