Today, cinematic rockers Earthside have presented a Bangla vocal playthrough video of the song “Tyranny” featuring singer Pritam Adhikary.
The band shares, “Pritam has a charisma about him that is immediately apparent in any of his musical projects or the simple act of communicating with him. Earthside was taken aback by the effortless way the West Bengal native could transition within phrases between overtone heavy sing-screams and impassioned singing. To say Pritam is a ‘heart on his sleeve’ vocalist or person is an understatement. He pours himself 100 percent into anything he works on and it’s impossible to miss that across the massive arrival moments in ‘Tyranny.’ A goal for the band on this album was both to use their platform to share voices they felt needed to be heard while also creating an overarching world stage to the work that would help to tell the global story they sought to convey. Pritam’s fervor to compose his own parts in the pivotal ending movement of the song in his own language gave the track this kind of authentic character on the highest of levels.”
The timing of this release is connected to the festival Durga Puja. Also known as Durgotsava or Shaaradotsava, the annual festival reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga, and is also celebrated because of Durga’s victory over Mahishasura. The festival is staged October 9-13. To view Pritam’s performance, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2CNyHOZgA .
Earthside just came off the road after staging performances with Soen and Leprous throughout September in to October 5. Just prior to the run of dates, they released a new music video for “We Who Lament” ft. Keturah. The video was created in Unreal Engine by director Tom Flynn, It features Canadian guest vocalist Keturah. The band shares, “From the beginning, we always wanted to be able to show the force of nature that is Keturah in all of her fiery glory on ‘We Who Lament,’ but circumstances at the time of release made it difficult to coordinate including her in a video. With the way the song has taken off for us, and become a staple of our live show, we felt the time was right to make good on this collaboration and finally create a special performance video with Keturah bringing it in full force alongside us. Tom Flynn, who has been a video collaborator with Earthside for a few years now, did an incredible job creating immersive and spellbinding worlds for the video that perfectly suit the
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 therein.”
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.
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.
