The Other Side is an acoustic EP by heavy metal band Godsmack, released on March 16, 2004. It includes several previously released songs re-recorded as acoustic versions, as well as three new acoustic tracks.
One new song, "Touche", featured Godsmack's first guitar player, Lee Richards, as well as John Kosco, who were at that time in the now defunct band Dropbox, The other two new acoustic tracks were "Running Blind" and "Voices" which are old songs that Sully Erna wrote but never recorded. The song "Asleep" is actually an acoustic, shorter and calmer version of "Awake" from the band's second album Awake.
The Other Side debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, selling 98,000 copies in its first week,[8] and the album would go on to sell over half million copies in the United States. The album has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), with excess sales of 500,000 copies.
TRACKLIST:
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Running Blind" Erna 3:59
2. "Re-Align" Erna 4:23
3. "Touchй" (featuring John Kosco and Lee Richards) Erna, Kosco, Richards 3:38
4. "Voices" Erna 3:44
5. "Keep Away" Erna 4:49
6. "Spiral" Erna 5:21
7. "Asleep" Erna 3:58
Total length: 29:57