ROSE FUNERAL - USA

Crucify.Kill.Rot. - 2007 - Siege Of Amida
The Resting Sonata - 2009 - Metal Blade
Gates Of Punishment - 2011 - Metal Blade

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Members
Vocals
Destin Armstrong - Timmy Russell>>A Scenic Sunset - King Conquer, Buried Beneath>>RYAN GARDNER>>King Conquer, Buried Beneath

Guitar
Tony Younce - Drey Armstrong - Son Of Day>>RYAN GARDNER - Jesse Biesner - Buried But Breathing>>KEVIN SNOOK

Bass
Craig Binaut - Dave Voll - Aegaeon>>Julian Kersey>>Aegaeon, The Faceless, Wormhole

Drum
Ryan Gardner - Andrew Horton>>My Virgin Eyes - Sixth Victim, Anastashia, Serpents, Aeons Of Eclipse>>Dusty Boles>>Serpents, Make Me Famous, Via Vanity, Oceans Red, Peyton Parrish




History & Biography
The metalcore band was founded in 2005 and released a demo called Buried Beneath The Blood the year after. The immediate next demo Crucify Kill Rot was pressed as an album for Europe in 2007. Another demo with self-cover versions arrived in 2008. The act managed to attract Metal Blade and released an album called The Resting Sonata in 2009. This one featured a revamped line-up as members came and members went. Timmy Russell was on vocals. Ryan Gardner had switched to guitar. The act had spent the summer of 2008 on tour with Fresh Meat tour which featured (from opener to headliner): Rose Funeral, Epicurean, The Destro and The Absence. The group was late to its slot at New England Metal & Hardcore and played a short set on a smaller stage. The band obtained the opening slot on Those Whom The Gods Detest Tour with Nile, Immolation and Krisiun. Gates Of Punishment again introduced a new cast of characters. Ryan Gardner was on guitar and vocals. There was an opera singer as a guest. The band had already played gigs with Vader. There were shows with And Hell Followed With and Wretched. Then there was touring with Kataklysm, Vital Remains and Fleshgod Apocalypse. That was it and the band just became busy with life despite promising a 2014 album, but everyone reforms and regroups and so the band uploaded a song called Father Death in 2022. Gravewitch was a 2023 upload. The band was gigging in the USA. Ben Cotton was on drums. Timmy Russell was back.


Reviews

ROSE FUNERAL - CRUCIFY KILL ROT - CANDLELIGHT  
Crucify Kill Rot obviously sounds like a damn promising title for the album of a “rising extreme metal band.” With skulls and an inverted cross on the cover and a couple of extreme song titles the Cincinnati-based Rose Funeral sounds like a good candidate for a new death metal contender. The band must be young though because instead the group manages to fit only some real brutality and unbridled speed into its largely breakdown-ridden metalcore. Rose Funeral is more As I Lay Dying and Heaven Shall Burn than Obituary or Krisiun. The worst aspect of the album is the vocals of Destin Armstrong. His cliché yelling is unnerving because it has been done to death. Apparently, the band agrees having replaced him since the initial recording of this disc a year ago. Also in need of replacement is the synthetic tom drum sound. Rose Funeral is not bad, is not good and is strictly for completists and classmates of the band members. - Anna Tergel


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