Rosetta Stone – Miserylab – In Death It Ends – HAPPY INTERNATIONAL GOTH DAY!

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A collection of ten T-shirts featuring various motifs from their artwork over the years.

Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.

All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.

Please find a collection of twelve poster pictures for your Sims 3 game.

The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.

Download

To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3modspackages folder and they should show up.

Enjoy!

Rosetta Stone, Miserylab and In Death It Ends are the various vehicles of Wirrel’s Porl King (some of the latter two acts have since been redone under the Rosetta Stone name.

Rosetta Stone were the ‘almost’ act during Goth’s hey day, coming that bit too late, and being denied what ought to have been a Top Twenty hit with their cover of ‘The Witch’.

They first came to public attention in 1989 when they took over the duties of support band to the Mission at the last minute before a British tour when the latter’s regular support act, All About Eve, temporarily disintegrated with the folded relationship between Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno (Bricheno joining The Mission’s arch-enemies The Sisters Of Mercy).

Fans and music papers noted the band’s similarity to older goth bands such as Bauhaus but with a very noticeable dance orientated sound which made them more attractive to mainstream clubbers.

(At one gig, the Mission had to pull out at the last minute, in order to ensure the gig went ahead, Rosetta became the headliner, with a certain Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine as the support – and hence the nod to Goths in that band’s biggest hit, ‘The Only Living Boy In New Cross’!)

Their second single, ‘Leave Me For Dead’ (1991) received mainstream radio play; their first first album and the eponymous single, ‘An Eye For The Main Chance’ (1991) sold well (both being Indie chart Top Tens for months), and the follow up single ‘Adrenaline’ remains a Goth/Dark Wave club night staple to this day.

Unfortunately for Rosetta Stone, this was where their luck ran out. In 1992, they released a cover of ‘The Witch’, which picked up considerable airplay and made No.5 in the Indie charts.

It also should have made the British Top Thirty, however the chart complier Gallup claimed it had not made enough to even make the Top 75 – one of a number of suspicious ‘non-appearences’ of indie labelled bands which led to accusations that those which weren’t greasing certain palms at Gallup were being denied chart places which would have meant Radio One and Capital Radio playlisting and the all important appearence on Top Of The Pops.

Rumours abounded that the rising ‘born again’ evangelical Christian movement (in those days a big deal with Reagan in the White House) had pressured Gallup into omitting the song due to non-existent occult references. However the band made a rod for their own back with the single’s cover artwork, which unintentionally looked like an erect penis in an ‘Arab Strap’ and testicles – making the band a laughing stock.

The band changed direction with the more industrial orientated ‘Tyranny Of Action’ album in 1995, which despite rave reviews did little in a changing musical landscape. Madchester was in and Britpop around the corner. Goth was very old hat, and by now something of a joke.

Rosetta Stone split, and Porl King became the more electronica (and political) Miserylab, plus the more experimental Goth side project In Death It Ends. However, in 2019, all were recombined under the Rosetta Stone title once more – with a remake of Miserylab’s best known track – ‘Children Of The Poor’ attracting some mainstream attention.