Reinventing Your Exit Underoath States

The band Underoath is a Christian metal core band originating from Ocala, Florida in the bedroom of previous guitarist Luke Morton in 1998. The name was derived from a meeting between Luke and Dallas Taylor, a long standing former member. After some practicing, Aaron Gillespie, who is still with the band today, was recruited from Luke’s church and became the drummer for Underoath.

Takehold Records signed Underoath in 1999 and later that same year released the debut album Act Of Depression and was followed later by a 5 song montage entitled Cries From The Past, both which are currently out of print. During this time, the band members changed frequently and hardly resemble the current members of Underoath today.

In 2001, Takehold Records was bought by Tooth & Nail Records therefore signing Underoath to Solid State Records, a heavier subsidiary. From this came the album The Changing Of Times in February 2002. 2003 brought Underoath on a Vans Warped Tour where their participation became halted when the lead singer Dallas Taylor, left the band. After this controversial move, it was unclear what the future would hold for Underoath at that time, but later continued on and picked up Spencer Chamberlain as the new lead vocalist.

They’re Only Chasing Safety came out in the early months of 2004 and sold a breaking number of 350,000 copies. Reinventing Your Exit and It’s Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door were the album’s 2 singles which both refer to quotes made by a character within the story of Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. 2005 proved to be a successful year for Underoath while they debuted as #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and later Billboard 200. Playing a number of Warped Tour dates, they participated on the inaugural Taste of Chaos tour all the while premiering 2 brand new songs during this tour length.

Underoath’s fifth album Define The Great Line was started in the studio in January 2006 and months before the actual release date, an unfinished version was leaked to the Internet. This prompted a statement from the band members to explain that the leaked version was raw and unmixed and therefore sound much unlike the finished album should. Define The Great Line was released on June 2006 and has sold over 500,000 copies to date.

They have toured extensively throughout Europe, Australia and Asia. Current drummer Aaron Gillespie has a side project called The Almost and works with them alongside Underoath. The working relationship has been amicable and when Aaron went through emergency surgery on an infection on his hand, Underoath recruited The Almost drummer Kenny Bozich to replace him instead of canceling shows while on tour.

The next upcoming album from Underoath has a scheduled release date in the summer of 2008. They have approached Adam Dutkiewicz to return as producer for this album alongside Matt Goldman. There is talk of a new live album in the works with no official title or release date as of yet.


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