Underoath is excellent at the heavy and excellent at the poppy melodic shit, but their is something a bit more special about their heavy shit.
Yup yup. In my eyes disambiguation made them to metalcore what deftones are to nu metal, completely transcending the genre
Honestly when they announced the reunion that was the one thing I was sad about even though it was inevitable... Aaron coming back and it not being the Disambiguation lineup. Obviously they were gonna bring him back, and I'm still excited, but honestly I fully agree that Spencer is better as the singular vocalist of this band and Daniel is a way better drummer, not even close.
They are close for me, both albums absolutely rip. I think Disambiguiation pushed their sound but I don’t know if it was necessarily better than the two before it. I’ve probably listened to define the great line more than any of their records, the songs still resonate hard with me. As for the thing I said earlier; I just have so much trust in this band I’m not at all worried about the product they put out until they give me a reason to worry. I don’t think they would have made a new record if it wasn’t somewhat essential
I just hope the track rips as much as the past couple first singles have (Illuminator and The Only Survivor). My favorite memory of Underoath was when they were teasing Illuminator by releasing one instrument on the track per day. I was in college in a dorm with the slowest internet imaginable, so it took like 45 minutes to download this three-minute track. I was so upset on the first day when it was just the electronics because i had waited all that time for basically nothing haha.
Man I'm way too stoked for this. I don't care if it's heavy, poppy, hell it could be a folk album. I just need new Underoath!!!!
The more I listen to LITSOS, the more I realize it is probably their best material. I'll still have special feelings for both TOCS and DTGL, though.
Well, Aaron's voice is an important staple for their best received albums. If people didn't like Aaron's vocals that probably wouldn't be the case.
I mean like I said I'm not so surprised the warped tour scene likes his voice but I do think they could have such a better career and reach without him
If only the Warped Tour scene liked Aaron's vocals they wouldn't have sold the number albums they did.
And I don't think it's necessarily people loving Aaron's vocals, but it's people loving the dynamic between Aaron's clean vocals and Spencer's screams. Aaron's solo stuff never did well.
yes they would have the warped tour scene was fucking huge when underoath were at their peak popularity
the almost did fine. i think underoath without the pop-punk style shit has the chance to go much further than they did with it. which they can do disambiguation style stuff with aarons vocals sure but i dont see how it would work at all. i think his voice is terrible, quite frankly, and i didnt miss his back and forth with spencer whatsoever.
ap/chorus was born out of the warped tour scene cmon lol none of us would be here if it wasnt for warped, for better or worse
I'm not saying warped tour scene to be derogatory necessarily I mean just count up how many of your favorite bands past and present played warped at some point in their career, even for me it's a lot of them