Cinematic rockers Earthside have announced a North American Tour in Fall 2024 in support of their second album titled “Let the Truth Speak”.
The band will kick off the tour in Atlanta on September 5 performing at ProgPower USA. From the 7th to the 17th, they’ll share the stage with Soen prior to linking up with Leprous for appearances in fourteen markets. Baard Kolstad from Leprous appears on the band’s most recent album, alongside cameos from Tesseract’s Daniel Tompkins and Fire From The Gods’ AJ Channer. At the time of release, Earthside presented an epic video for the title track featuring Tompkins and Gennady Tkachenko-Papizh, which can be watched here.
The band has shared a new visualizer for “Watching the Earth Sink” in front of the tour. You can watch it below. Earthside’s Ben Shanbrom shares: “Immerse yourself in the visual world of ‘Watching the Earth Sink’ — the instrumental centerpiece of Earthside’s latest album ‘Let the Truth Speak’ and a staple of their powerful live multimedia experience. Through the captivating visuals of Riivata and the eerie calm and thunderous climaxes of the track, the collective experience in wordless clarity tells an immediately gripping story of escapism, despair, and fevered excitement in the face of world-leveling disaster — a tale that is all too human in its reality. We are excited to share this special window into the Earthside live show with you in anticipation of our 2024 North American tour this fall with Soen and Leprous”.
Eight long years removed from their critically show-stopping entrance – “A Dream in Static” (2015) – the idealistic thinkers and feelers in Earthside found themselves in a different world entirely… or, perhaps, a world more honest and unhinged than they and many others had bargained for. “This album almost destroyed our lives and friendships”, keyboardist and co-orchestrator Frank Sacramone confides. “It’s insanity, but it is beautiful”.
“‘A Dream in Static’ was more of an *I* album”, reflects guitarist and orchestrator Jamie van Dyck. “Each of us in our own way was engaging topics of self-actualization and the fear of never quite becoming. ‘Let the Truth Speak’, however, turns its focus to the *We*. Within months of releasing ADIS, the global landscape had changed to where issues of far more consequence than our own individual dreams coming true were tugging at us. We became far more consumed with the trajectory of humanity as a whole than our own legacies there in”.
The video for “All We Ever Knew and Ever Loved”, featuring Baard Kolstad [Leprous], won the award for Best Music Video at the United Artist International Film Festival and was selected to be screened at a number of other events which included Horrorcon UK, UAIFF, Dam Short Film Festival, Animiest, Rhode Island International film festival and more.
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North American Tour Dates 2024:
05-Sep – ProgPower USA Festival, Atlanta, GA
07-Sep – Eastside Bowl, Madison, TN*
08-Sep – Bogart’s, Cincinnati, OH*
10-Sep – The Forge, Joliet, IL*
11-Sep – The Magic Stick, Detroit, MI*
14-Sep – Salle Multi, Quebec City, QC*
16-Sep – The Palladium, Worcester, MA*
17-Sep – House of Independents, Asbury Park, NJ*
18-Sep – House of Blues, Cleveland**
19-Sep – Bottom Lounge, Chicago**
20-Sep – Majestic Theater, Madison**
21-Sep – Lyric Theater @ The Skyway, Minneapolis**
23-Sep – Gothic Theater, Denver**
24-Sep – Soundwell, SLC**
26-Sep – August Hall, San Francisco**
27-Sep – House of Blues, Anaheim**
28-Sep – The Nile Theater, Phoenix**
30-Sep – Granada Theater, Dallas**
01-Oct – The Mohawk, Austin**
02-Oct – White Oak Music Hall, Houston**
04-Oct – Plaza Live, Orlando**
05-Oct – Revolution, Fort Lauderdale**
* (w/ Soen)
** (w/ Leprous)
Earthside are Jamie van Dyck (guitars, backing vocals, programming, keyboards), Ben Shanbrom (drums, backing vocals), Frank Sacramone (keyboards, synthesizers, programming, percussion, guitar) and Ryan Griffin (bass, backing vocals). The band is working on plans to tour Europe in 2025. Those performances will be announced in the coming weeks.
Weblinks:
www.earthsideband.com
www.facebook.com/earthsideband
