Earthside – Let the Truth Speak (Review)

This is the second album from US progressive rock band Earthside.

Let the Truth Speak is a 78-minute odyssey of contemporary progressive rock and metal. Built around a core of the main band, these musicians are augmented by a range of guest musicians and vocalists, (including the singer of Tesseract).

Let the Truth Speak is an ambitious album, with a cinematic scope and feel. It’s an album of multifaceted modern textures, providing a vast sonic worldscape that’s highly detailed and well-realised. The band’s creative expression is carved into ten songs, each offering a different vista for the listener to explore. It’s a modern progressive record that’s enhanced and enriched by a multitude of different sounds, instruments, voices, feelings, and moods. It’s a richly broad album, enticing the listener with everything from intimate introspection to massive epic orchestration.

The tracks are diverse and individual, and each one exists as a well-rounded, fully complete song in its own right. Although the multiple guest vocalists help provide each song that features them with a personality of its own, that’s only part of what differentiates the tracks, vocalists or not. The main factor is the depth of songwriting and the exquisite performances contained in the music itself. These make each song a full experience that’s utterly compelling and very rewarding.

Let the Truth Speak is an album of rare talent and ambition given tangible form and feeling. It’s a sumptuous feast of depth, emotion, and atmosphere, and should be considered essential listening for any fan of modern progressive rock or metal.