Cinematic rockers Earthside and Mascot Label Group have announced plans to release a new recording titled “frozen heart ~ burning world” in front of the band’s first headline tour of North America. That run begins at Boston’s Middle East on February 21 and will play its final show on March 8 at Brooklyn’s Meadows. They’ll perform songs off their latest album alongside their debut A DREAM IN STATIC. Tickets are available here.

The band shares, “We’re beyond thrilled to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Let The Truth Speak by heading out on our first-ever North American headline tour. This tour is a milestone for us, and we can’t wait to connect with all of you—both new and familiar faces—who have been a part of this journey. Expect an immersive and epic live experience that brings songs from Let The Truth Speak, A Dream In Static, and even some heart-wrenching new material to the stage. And stay tuned; this is just the beginning, with more dates on the horizon!”
 
The recording “frozen heart ~ burning world,” is the lone “bonus track” from Earthside’s writing sessions that delivered Let The Truth Speak.  The band reflects, “Not for any lack of quality—if anything, it may even be among our individual favorites from the full batch of material. We really wanted a ‘Closest I’ve Come’ – vibe track on LTTS, but nothing we were generating like that was gripping us—at least until Frank’s entrancing, icy intro came out of the ether one day in practice, and the rest of the song just poured from it. Unfortunately, the track just came together too late in the writing process for us to feel ready to record it with the others—and on a record that didn’t have much room for another odyssey track. But in celebration of Earthside’s long-awaited headline tour, we wanted to give the song the proper recording it deserved.”

The group notes that ‘frozen heart’ is uniquely—just Earthside. “There are literally no other performers on the song outside of our four members. In our love of collaboration and working with guest musicians, we perhaps underestimated the value of what we as a core unit bring to the table. As such, this song represents the heart of Earthside’s sound—the atmosphere, the emotions, and the storytelling that are most essential to who we are as artists. The title of the song is self-explanatory, but it sums up a lot of what we’ve felt and seen around us in the years of working on, and since releasing, Let The Truth Speak.”

They continue, “When we lose our empathy and our present concern for anything beyond our individual well-being, the result is always the same—everything around us burns. The somberness of the music and its title was inspired in large part by the fear of impending loss in the face of present climate change—and the callousness of those most well-positioned to do something about it.

When we titled and planned the recording and release of ‘frozen heart ~ burning world,’ of course, we had no idea of the devastation that would come to Southern California in the weeks leading up to sharing this piece of music. We are thinking of all of you whose lives have been upended and we hope that the themes that inspired this piece resonate in a way that’s affirming and healing amidst such upheaval. We hope ultimately that we as humans will be moved to come together and do everything we can to make these fires a rarity, and not more the norm.”

Now a decade removed from their critically show-stopping entrance – A Dream in Static [2015] – the idealistic artists 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.”
 
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]. 

Confirmed appearances include:
2/21     Boston, MA                                                      Middle East
2/22     Montreal, QC                                                   Bar le Ritz
2/23     Toronto, ON                                                     The Drake
2/25     Detroit, MI                                                        Sanctuary
2/26     Cleveland, OH                                                 Foundry
2/27     Chicago, IL                                                      Beat Kitchen
3/01     Nashville, TN                                                   The End
3/02     Atlanta, GA                                                      Purgatory
3/05     Orlando, FL                                                     Conduit
3/07     Baltimore, MD                                                  Metro Gallery
3/08     Brooklyn, NY                                                   Meadows

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