after shame is where this really pops off for me funny enough. think its pretty hit and miss before that point but spinning in place > vultures > cannibal is the most solid run for me here
Finally had a chance to get all the way through this today and I really dig it. Up there with Voyeurist for me. It's incredibly difficult for me to get even 40 minutes to myself these days. I've been trying for the last week.
Shame Devil All The Love Is Gone Cannibal And Then There Was Nothing Teeth Loss Outsider Generation No Surrender Spinning In Place Survivors Guilt Vultures
Whoa I like TOCS way more than most of y'all. Realized how much I liked it after watching them perform the whole thing front to back.
TOCS live in full is great until they go right into DTGL in full and they rip into In Regards and you're like, "oh yeah, this is the good stuff". (2016)
This past year they went into Teeth as the encore when I saw them, and let me tell you, I have never seen a crowd go from being so amped to totally dead so fast. Also if I'm being 100% honest with myself, personally Underoath peaked with DTGL and everything after that has just been a variable slider from "okay" to "pretty good".
Yeah Teeth is definitely an odd choice as the first encore song. Teeth is unique in a sense that it works well in the middle of the album and I think would be better in the middle of a set. It probably works well in a weird way as a single for people who've never experience Underoath before because it's just so vastly different than anything they've done. Odd little ditty.
Seeing them on Friday. bummed that I just flat do not like this album as whole. Maybe it will resonate live.
I mean they are playing 7 songs as an opener and 4 of them are from the new album (according to setlist.fm)
LITSOS Disambiguation Voyeurist Define The Great Line They're Only Chasing Safety Erase Me TPATO/POTATO
You definitely should! If you’ve been getting into LITSOS, Disambiguation feels like a darker, sludgier progression from that album. Obviously Aaron’s absence had an impact on their sound, but I really love that album for being the all-out endpoint of the “first phase” of their career with Spencer for lack of a better phrase.
I do love TOCS since it was the album that pretty much got me into heavy music. I just happen to like everything I listed above it a little more. And it's like, even though I put Erase Me at the bottom, I still consider it personally important since it came out right as I was getting out of a really terrible relationship and I found a lot of it empowering.
TikTok has been showing me a lot of videos of the Papa Roach/Rise Against crowd watching Underoath and it’s wild seeing a giant crowd of no people have zero reaction to Writing on the Walls. But also, the amount of “I had never heard of Underoath before but they were awesome!” comments shows exactly why they took it.
I kind of hope we get a behind the scenes look at the album like we did with Voyeurist. That mini podcast series was a fun listen, even if sometimes it felt like a weird therapy session for the band haha
obviously litsos is good but it felt not exciting at all following up dtgl. it was the same style but dtgl was definitely alot better and influential.
Not exactly what you asked for but a documentary about the Locus Ultra stunt just came out and it ties into the mindset they had when they made the record. Really insightful.
It took me a while to fully appreciate LITSOS when it first came out. I loved half of it but I’d often skip the other half (Emergency Broadcast, We Are the Involuntary, The Created Void, and Desolate Earth) of it. Compared to DTGL, an album I connected with instantly and never skipped a track on, I thought DTGL was the better record.. but it finally clicked around when Aaron left. LITSOS has aged like fine wine and now I see the truth: DTGL is the inferior of the two