Rosaline was a six-piece post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band from Chicago, Illinois that formed in 2005. The group modeled their sound from early 2000s post-hardcore groups, citing influences from Thursday

Thursday (band)

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, Underoath

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, Hopesfall

Hopesfall

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, Taking Back Sunday

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 and The Bled

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. Over the span of their career Rosaline released three albums on various independent record labels.

Inception and A Constant North

In an interview with Absolute Punk, keyboardist Nate Steinheimer comments that "Rosaline formed the way most bands do, a bunch of kids in high school who weren't any good at sports and who weren't that cool, so we just played music instead". Pulling inspiration from other groups involved in the early 2000s post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 movement, Rosaline independently released their debut 8 track EP We're All Just Passing Through in 2006. The band was inactive during 2007 until guitarist Madison Stolzer returned after briefly joining the group Emarosa

Emarosa

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.

On April 27, 2009 Rosaline announced their signing to Eulogy Records during an on-air interview with Chicago's rock radio station Q101

Q101

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. The band released A Constant North for the label on July 21, 2009. Produced by Joey Sturgis

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 and Joel Wanasek, guitarist Madison Stolzer described the album by saying: "A Constant North is always there, ya know? The album will always be there; those emotions are pretty much always going to live on" "A Constant North" was released in December 2009 in Japan through the major label Avex. The Japanese version included new artwork and re-mastered audio.

The Vitality Theory and disestablishment

In a video featured on the Alternative Press website in April 2010, Rosaline revealed that they had begun tracking for their debut full-length album The Vitality Theory. The album was released on July 20 under the label Good Fight Music and was well received by the musical community. Absolute Punk gave it a "93%" rating, calling it "an album of the year and sleeper album of the year contender". The song "Model Ships" was released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band 2

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 and Rock Band 3

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on December 5, 2010.

It was announced on July 1, 2011 through the Rosaline Facebook page that they were departing from the music industry. The reasons for the departure are unknown. One of the members later updated the page explaining; "We didn't break up, we went down together". They released one final song as a free download for their fans entitled "Edge of An Era".

Band members

Final Lineup

• Madison Stolzer - lead guitar and backing vocals (2005-2011)
• Ryan Pulice - bass (2005-2011)
• Nathan Steinheimer - keyboards (2005-2011)
• Cody Lumpkin - lead vocals (2009-2011)
• Ricky Bakosh - rhythm guitar (2009-2011)
• Matt Hahn - drums (2009-2011)

Members

• Nick Jones - lead vocals (2005-2009)
• Ryan Prindle - drums (2005-2009)

Discography

Studio albums

• The Vitality Theory (2010)

EPs

• A Constant North (2009)
• We're All Just Passing Through (2006)