Earthride Sign to Salt of the Earth Records; Announce New Single and Album
Makes sense for frontman Dave Sherman to bring back Earthride after splitting earlier this year with The Obsessed. That’s kind of how Earthride got going the first time, though their debut EP was released before Spirit Caravan‘s initial run came to its end. In any case, it’s a bit of symmetry in how it’s all shaken out that brings the news Earthride have hooked up with the growing roster of Salt of the Earth Records — see also Scissorfight, Atala, Cortez, and so on — and that they’ll have a new single out this year with a full-length to follow in 2018, also on Totem Cat in Europe. Obviously, whenever it shows up, new Earthride is sure to measure on the Richter scale in Maryland.
Speaking of that crabbiest of states, we already knew Earthride will take part in this year’s Maryland Doom Fest (info here) in June. They’re also set for the inaugural Descendants of Crom festival in Pittsburgh, PA, this September (info here), so I believe the PR wire — not the least because I wrote the press release — when it says more live dates are forthcoming. I haven’t seen the band since they were out supporting 2010’s Something Wicked (review here), and as they’re rolling with a new lineup and working for the first time ever as a dual-guitar five-piece, it seems like all the more reason to catch up to what Sherman and Co. have going.
Here’s the announcement I wrote circled back through the PR wire:
The Return of EARTHRIDE
Maryland Doom’s Favorite Sons Sign to Salt of the Earth; Announce New Album
Today, SALT OF THE EARTH RECORDS is proud to announce the signing of Maryland doom legends EARTHRIDE to its growing roster of acts. Led by inimitable frontman Dave Sherman (Spirit Caravan, Weed is Weed, The Obsessed), a new lineup of Earthride has been holed up at Omega Recording Studios in Rockville, MD, and will release a new 7” later this year with a full-length to follow in 2018.
“The band has really come a long way and Salt of the Earth Records and Earthride are about to burn up the road and deliver the doom!” enthuses Sherman, who is joined the band by co-founders Kyle Van Steinburg (guitar) and drummer Eric Little (also Church of Misery, Internal Void), as well as newcomers Ed Brown (bass) and Greg Ball (guitar), who came aboard as the group reformed to work on its first new material in seven years since 2010’s Something Wicked LP for release on Salt of the Earth and Totem Cat Records in Europe.
Earthride’s return – and their first incarnation ever as a five-piece – will be celebrated this summer at Maryland Doom Fest 2017, where they will join the likes of heavy prog immortals Captain Beyond, Trouble offshoot The Skull, Bang, Place of Skulls, Wo Fat and more at Café 611 in Frederick, MD, on June 23-25. Plans are in the works for further touring to support the new single (title still to be revealed) and their impending fourth full-length.
In the meantime, Earthride have been playing local shows this winter and spring and writing their heaviest material yet. Their place among their scene’s most influential bands has long been secure, and as they look to the future, it’s with renewed vigor and purpose that they continue to abide by their longstanding ethic of delivering Pure Maryland Doom for the Brotherhood of Music.
Grip the wheel of death and be ready for the all-heavy: EARTHRIDE are back.
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