New Haven, Connecticut's Earthside are a progressive metal quartet whose rich, sonic world-building is achieved with both technical and emotional acumen. The group's 2015 debut, A Dream in Static, achieved cult status in the prog-metal community. Earthside spent the next several years working on their sophomore effort, immersed in the process while parsing the passage of time and the COVID-19 pandemic. The epic Let the Truth Speak was released in 2023.