ROLO TOMASSI

Mathcore / Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Non-Metal / Metal Related • United Kingdom
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Rolo Tomassi is a mathcore / progressive metalcore / post-metal band from Sheffield in England.

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Named after the fictional character in the film LA Confidential, Rolo Tomassi formed in 2005 and self-released their first demo shortly after forming. Next came a tape release titled 4 Track Cassette with a limited production run of only 200 copies.

After a split EP with Mirror! Mirror! the band signed to Holy Roar records who released their self-titled EP. To support this release the band toured up and down the country, and in June 2008, played a very well received show at Download Festival.

The band signed to Hassle Records, and released their debut album ‘Hysterics’ in 2008, followed by a second album, Cosmology in 2010. In 2011 the band released Eternal Youth, a compilation of demo, EP and remixes rarities as a double CD or triple vinyl album. The CD release was also
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ROLO TOMASSI Hysterics album cover 3.25 | 2 ratings
Hysterics
Mathcore 2008
ROLO TOMASSI Cosmology album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Cosmology
Mathcore 2010
ROLO TOMASSI Astraea album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
Astraea
Mathcore 2012
ROLO TOMASSI Grievances album cover 4.25 | 2 ratings
Grievances
Mathcore 2015
ROLO TOMASSI The BBC Sessions album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
The BBC Sessions
Mathcore 2016
ROLO TOMASSI Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It album cover 4.20 | 5 ratings
Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Mathcore 2018
ROLO TOMASSI Where Myth Becomes Memory album cover 3.25 | 4 ratings
Where Myth Becomes Memory
Mathcore 2022
ROLO TOMASSI Where Myth Becomes Memory – Instrumental album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Where Myth Becomes Memory – Instrumental
Mathcore 2023

ROLO TOMASSI EPs & splits

ROLO TOMASSI A Split 7 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Split 7" Record
Mathcore 2006
ROLO TOMASSI Rolo Tomassi EP album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Rolo Tomassi EP
Mathcore 2006
ROLO TOMASSI Credit Card CD album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Credit Card CD
Mathcore 2006
ROLO TOMASSI Summer Tour 2007 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Summer Tour 2007
Mathcore 2007
ROLO TOMASSI Rolo Tomassi / Cutting Pink With Knives ‎– Split album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rolo Tomassi / Cutting Pink With Knives ‎– Split
Mathcore 2007
ROLO TOMASSI Rolo Tomassi – Live @ Eurosonic EP album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rolo Tomassi – Live @ Eurosonic EP
Mathcore 2008
ROLO TOMASSI Acoustics/Remixes album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Acoustics/Remixes
Non-Metal 2009
ROLO TOMASSI Rolo Tomassi ​/ ​Throats Split album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rolo Tomassi ​/ ​Throats Split
Mathcore 2009
ROLO TOMASSI Throats / Rolo Tomassi album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Throats / Rolo Tomassi
Mathcore 2009
ROLO TOMASSI Cancer Bats / Rolo Tomassi album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cancer Bats / Rolo Tomassi
Mathcore 2009
ROLO TOMASSI End Hysterics EP album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
End Hysterics EP
Mathcore 2009
ROLO TOMASSI Shred Yr Face - Tour EP album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Shred Yr Face - Tour EP
Mathcore 2009
ROLO TOMASSI Rolo Tomassi / Antares Split album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rolo Tomassi / Antares Split
Mathcore 2011
ROLO TOMASSI Rolo Tomassi / Stockades album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rolo Tomassi / Stockades
Mathcore 2014

ROLO TOMASSI live albums

ROLO TOMASSI Live At Electric Ballroom album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live At Electric Ballroom
Mathcore 2024

ROLO TOMASSI demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

ROLO TOMASSI 3 Track Demo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
3 Track Demo
Mathcore 2005
ROLO TOMASSI 4 Track Cassette album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
4 Track Cassette
Mathcore 2005

ROLO TOMASSI re-issues & compilations

ROLO TOMASSI Eternal Youth album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Eternal Youth
Mathcore 2011
ROLO TOMASSI Boxset album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Boxset
Mathcore 2016

ROLO TOMASSI singles (21)

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Remixo Tomassi Volume 1 (with Himei Koukotsu)
Mathcore 2007
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Digital History / Beatrotter
Mathcore 2008
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I Love Turbulence
Mathcore 2008
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Party Wounds
Mathcore 2010
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Mount Celestia
Mathcore 2011
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Old Mystics
Mathcore 2012
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Illuminaire (65daysofstatic remix)
Mathcore 2013
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Stage Knives
Mathcore 2015
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Opalescent
Mathcore 2015
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Rituals
Mathcore 2017
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Balancing The Dark
Mathcore 2017
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Cloaked
Mathcore 2021
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Drip
Mathcore 2021
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Closer
Atmospheric Sludge Metal 2022
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Closer (Daniel Avery Edit)
Atmospheric Sludge Metal 2022
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Closer (Ki Oni & Luke Elliott Edit)
Atmospheric Sludge Metal 2022
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Mutual Ruin (Instrumental)
Mathcore 2023
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The End Of Eternity (Instrumental)
Mathcore 2023
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Almost Always (Instrumental)
Mathcore 2023
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Aftermath (Live)
Metal Related 2024
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To Resist Forgetting
Mathcore 2024

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ROLO TOMASSI Where Myth Becomes Memory

Album · 2022 · Mathcore
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When it comes to metal in 2022, it’s tempting to think we’ve just about heard of it all. Every genre and its branches, every possible hybrid with non-metal tones and timbres but then some band comes along and reminds you that you ain’t seen nothing yet. England’s ROLO TOMASSI is no stranger to twisting disparate strains of molten metal into bizarre new chimeric creations. Mostly residing in the already strange world of fusion that involves bombastic outbursts of mathcore with the more restrained processions of post-rock and post-metal, the band has dabbled in everything from blackgaze and post-hardcore to nintendocore.

But metal mixed with dream pop? Now that is a combo pack that i couldn’t quite believe exists until i set my ears to this bizarre mishmash of opposing forces. Turns out this is a rather new development in the metal universe with Boris having released an archival drone metal dream pop album in 2021 and Sun Addicted Family mixing dream pop with blackgaze in 2020, but dream pop with mathcore? WTF?!!!! Well after listening to ROLO TOMASSI’s seventh full-length release WHERE MYTH BECOMES MEMORY, it’s not quite as inventive as i had hoped but still a decent listen.

ROLO TOMASSI features the lovely Eva Korman as lead vocalist and can she ever display her Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde mood swings the drop of a hat by sweetly singing dreamy pop melodies in the vein of The Cranberries before lashing out the most wicked screams in full fury mathcore mode. Her chameleonesque powers of completely taking you from one extreme to the other are the highlights of WHERE MYTH BECOMES MEMORY which features ten average length tracks that add up to 48 minutes. It’s truly a bizarre choice of styles and almost sounds like two completely different bands simply taking turns, as if Beachhouse had joined forces with Cult of Luna and The Dillinger Escape Plan.

The album opens with serene dream pop track “Almost Ways” but becomes accompanied by quickened guitar chunks to provide a most surreal effect that could possible be called nightmare pop. The following “Cloaked” kicks into full mathcore mode with Eva’s complete transformation from sweet girl to raging bitch on the rampage! It soon becomes obvious that this band hadn’t really married the dream pop and mathcore elements at all and the gist of the album is to merely present one track with dream pop meets post-metal and then another in full mathcore fury. That is mostly true as tracks like “Prescience” actually work quite well in blending all the elements into a cohesive whole but by this time i feel like i’ve listened to an iTunes playlist rather than a continuous album flow.

No doubt ROLO TOMASSI has latched onto something with the disparate worlds of dream pop and mathcore duking it out in the same arena on WHERE MYTH BECOMES MEMORY but in the end it doesn’t seem like this cake is fully baked. While i love both dream pop and mathcore, in this situation they just don’t really work out together and the overall effect is like putting jalapeños on your ice cream, an interesting idea in theory but one that has its limited appeal. Nice try but i find this album more irritating than captivating. The dream pop melodies are sweet enough and the mathcore outbursts aren’t mathy enough. Everything feels watered down in an attempt to force two opposite musical forces into the same cage. Not a horrible album because some of the moments work quite well but just not as brilliantly crafted as i was expecting.

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