Rosesdead was a Canadian metalcore formed in Oakville, Ontario in 2000 by Jason Mante and Dave Alexander (guitars), Cole Stephenson (bass) and Dave (drums), soon after recruiting Adam Szeminski on vocals. Their first 4 song ep, which was self titled and released in 2002, and had by then Brett Diederichs on guitar (replacing Dave Alexander) and Shane McIntosh on drums. The band quickly signed to the brand new record label, BlackBox Recordings (now going under BlackBox Music, due to another label from New York with the same name).