The Other Side by Godsmack

The Other Side, released by Republic on 16 March 2004, is Godsmack unplugging the amps: an acoustic EP from the Lawrence, Massachusetts band, and still the only EP in their catalog. Sully Erna produced it with David Bottrill, and most of it revisits songs the band had already put out, stripped down and cut again, alongside 3 new tracks.

Those newcomers are the draw. "Running Blind" and "Voices" were old songs Erna had written and never got around to recording, and "Touché" brought back Lee Richards, the band's first guitarist, along with John Kosco, both of them playing in Dropbox at the time. With Erna singing and playing guitar, Robbie Merrill on bass, Tony Rombola on guitar and Shannon Larkin on drums, the usual chugging menace gives way to something brooding and bare, and it turns out the growl works just as well at a murmur.

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