the chants are kinda cringe and for some reason Spencer just cannot swear in a non-cringey way but

i really liked the rest of this. nice to hear Spencer and Aaron's voices trading off, and Aaron's still got some drum chops

Solid 3/5, that "this is fucking hell" sounds so damn weak.

^yup that's what I meant

the chant could have been good if they didn't beat it to death and/or sound like they gave up on the "this is hell" every time

Also: "upcoming album Voyeurist" "Take a peek at the new track below."

Well played.

Yeah what the hell is with the album title lmao. Just found out what a voyeurist is.

Big fan. LFG

How has nobody pointed out that Ghostmane is on an Underoath record, wtf aha?

I like the last 30 seconds a good bit but I'll maintain that Spencer reminds me of the tiny dude from Set Your Goals when he says "this is fucking". Almost sounds like a 12 year old in a game of Warzone getting pissed off.

Pretty decent compared to the last few releases. There isn't much cringe on this track (when compared to most tracks on "Erase Me"), just nothing phenomenal. Atmosphere is nice on this track.

"Yeah what the hell is with the album title lmao. Just found out what a voyeurist is."

Have you never heard Dude Ranch?

and when the daaaaay eeends im shoyure she fyeulllls sooorrow

that album art is the best they could come up with?

This isn't bad but I'll be damned if the best moments arent just a complete retread of their old material.

Spencer can't swear 12345
They wore the chant out 12345

Song is fine.

decent song, still shaping up better than Erase Me although that aint much

Not bad. This and that other new single are better than anything from their last album imo

Very rarely do choir vocals in metalcore work. This is one of those times where it doesn't. I like the verses tho.

"Have you never heard Dude Ranch?"

Honestly I only remember Dammit and Pathetic. Looking back they do have a song called Voyeur huh

oooive made mistakes by lookyeeeng in the wrong wiiiindyooow
her dyad is big and oi have nyever seen his faace

"that album art is the best they could come up with?"

fr I absolutely hate it lol

yea the art is so ugly. say what you will about erase me (bc its terrible), its cover art is the best part of the record ez

The chant is goes through like 70% of the song lmao, I hate it. Everything else is okay, and just okay. 2.5 album incoming.

[2] they should've flipped Erase Me and Voyeurist's album covers to reflect the quality of the songs.

Song issss okay I guess, the choir thing is stupid

The band should've stayed disbanded.

Better than whatever the hell Erase Me was - but it's still such a far cry from the glory days.

Right after supper her brother showers twice a week
He kicks my ass so much that filthy white inbred

BMTHcore

man i gotta spin dude ranch again voyeur is ragingly stuck in my head now

it's alright.

Wow, the alternate album cover is a million times better than the official. What the hell were these guys thinking with the aesthetic direction?

This really shouldn't be a big deal but the official album art is so ugly that it actually bothers me

Thinking? There hasn't been much of that going on lately.

yo where this alternate cover at

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSKIhTFrvs9/?utm_medium=copy_link

The eye looks so much better.

yeah thats a bit better and also makes way more sense w the name of the record

Damn. I'm officially not on board with this whatsoever. Shame, these guys are probably my all time favorite band. :[

I think all the arts suck !

yea ngl even the alternate cover would still easily be their worst artwork since like the black metal days

so cool when bands announce albums fifteen years in advance < 3
so cool when the singles meant to sustain hype for those fifteen years aren't exactly great < 3

Is it just me, or does this song actually fuckin slap lol

It's not bad but I wouldn't say it slaps

I love how intent these bands (these guys, thrice, etc) are on totally mangling their legacies lol

Is it just me, or does this song actually fuckin slap lol

Just you for sure

this song really makes me consider excommunicating myself

bloc no

How is the new artwork worse than Ø Disambiguation, lol?

It fits more neatly with their aesthetic than half the others. Yeah I get the empty set interpretation of Disam, but it's pretty pretty boring.

Song is ok. But since we've already heard the start of the album idk, it's not the strongest but who knows where the album will trail into toward the middle. Underoath is like that band where their strengths and weaknesses just end up totally depending on each other, and it's present in almost every song. LITSOS is still perfect material however.

bc disam isnt half grayscale half in color lmao shit is so awkward looking

"ft. Ghostemane"

they've fallen so hard god damn

Lol, fair enough. But honestly, a remix of that artwork that way actually sounds pretty awesome.

I love glitch art and the whole VHS/CRT aesthetic so I dig the artwork.

Disam's artwork is good and this one sucks simple as

The song is very BMTH-esque

ghostemane rules and i still don't get how people can't see how he fits fine as a guest for them

s p i r i t
spirit

ngl disam probably has my favorite cover of theirs. got a dope color scheme and it matches the records aquatic imagery really nicely too

The second pic on that instagram link for the alternate cover is a video that makes it seem like it's a lenticular display or something. Pretty cool if so.

"I hate it"

Durrzo, we're gonna need a TW next time.

So can we expect another UO album where Spencer barely screams?

Fucking January release date tho.. god damn that's a long time

I liked this.

This and Damn Excuses have honestly been pretty enjoyable, albeit with some cringy lyrics.

"Fucking January release date tho.. god damn that's a long time"

Apparently they were gonna release this in October but their vinyl batches got delayed, so they decided to shift the entire release back. Not really sure why they didn't just keep the digital release the same tbh.

wouldnt be too surprised if it ends up leaking around the october release date

kinda hope it does just to rip the band aid off lmao but idk i still think damn excuses is pretty fun

not bad but the dynamics seem way more clunky than they ever did / also the bmth drop at the end embarassing

Cannot believe this is the same band that made Disambiguation and Define the Great Line.

this gives off like DTGL but really condensed into a 3 minute song vibes

the hell it does, shit still sounds like Erase Me but they knew how hard the shit got panned

Yeah it totally sounds like Erase Me like no hiding that

this one kinda sucks tbh

listen to the guitar work and the return to the sorta progressive-esque song structure, it'd be a lot better if they went back to fully realizing it in a 4-5 minute track but this is fine enough for a retread.

Theres nothing remotely progressive about this nor does it give off DTGL vibes lol

Yeah not even close to DTGL

they could rework writing on the walls line for line and y'all would still compare it to erase me i'm convinced

Yeah, they can make music that sucks. This has been established.

one of the stupidest things you've ever said venin point blank

It's still a hell of a lot closer to their 3-album stretch of DTGL through Disambig than y'all are admitting. Maybe it's closer to LITSOS but just with more Spencer.

I'll literally take Cries of the Past over this any day, that's how much I dislike that choir thing the song has going on.

an improvement over Erase Me coming from UO would likely be close to LITSOS but it's still miles away than you're trying to paint it.

also haven't heard BMTH since that Hell record but I don't doubt this sounds closer to them than anything pre-Erase Me

i mean the choir thing i can understand, the music behind it though definitely gives me prime era UO vibes even if it really is more of a retread of the same ideas (i mean those three albums had some retreaded ground within themselves too)

pretty cool track, a bit more optimistic about this album now, especially after whatever they were trying to do on "erase me"

This was pretty average, but the chant was real lame. Not excited for this

"It's still a hell of a lot closer to their 3-album stretch of DTGL through Disambig than y'all are admitting"
Its truly not and its hilarious how hard you're reaching to try to make this stick. Just say you dig the song dawg none of us are buying into this "Sounds like them in their DTGL days" comparison

https://youtu.be/gNf8ShvYzzU

I miss the old days when Spencer would pronounce random words with an R at the beginning

RIT'S ALL OVER!

RIIIIIICEEEEEE!

RIIIIIICCCEEEEEEEE!

I mean the only reason I'm saying it is it basically took elements from their 2006-2010 era (i've heard the choir stuff in those albums, the guitar work sounds straight out of the LITSOS playbook) and then just condensed it into an easy-to-digest 3 minute product. It's a retread of old ground and i definitely agree it's not quite on the same level, but I swear I heard similar clean guitar lines from the first verse in "To Whom It May Concern." I'm just saying this feels a hell of a lot more "return to roots" but with a refined sense of accessibility to court people who were unfamiliar or struggled with their past work.

and in all honesty i enjoy it more than i'm giving it credit for here too so *shrugs*

hey i like this too bloc

Meh still don’t like it, just not my thing

Still find it cringey how edgy they're trying to shed their christian roots now.

this has some really cool parts, and then some stuff that id reconsider if i were them.

This is fire tbh

That section at 1:37 is actually really nice and reminds me of the old them. The verses and drumming also rule, but that choir shit has gotta go

the choir is the only thing i outright dont like but its pretty distracting. only gave this like 2 listens tho

The choir grew on me. I wasn't a fan at first, but idk, it's catchy.

tbh if they just took out the choir and just called Adam D and Goldman to produce, it'd be hard to distinguish this from a Disambig or LITSOS cut to a serious degree

Cycle ft. Ghostemane

Red flag for sure

litsos and dtgl especially has way less repetitive song structures tho. this sounds a bit more like those records than erase me did but only by a little

"tbh if they just took out the choir and just called Adam D and Goldman to produce, it'd be hard to distinguish this from a Disambig or LITSOS cut to a serious degree"

i see you are your usual hypothetical self today

oh how i wish theyd go back to goldman

i think the easiest way to explain my thought process is; it has ideas that sound like those records sonically but then they filtered through the lens of Erase Me's structural design, which is closer in structure to They're Only Chasing Safety but is sonically closer to Sleepwave most of the way through. so in essence this is taking ideas from that era and structuring them in a more conventional and accessible way.

"i see you are your usual hypothetical self today" well I'm pointing out instrumental motifs and cadences that very clearly remind me of the prime years of this band. there's clean sections here that reminds me of "To Whom It May Concern", heavy sections that remind me of stuff from LITSOS, vocal lines that came straight from the Disambig playbook... but I guess because it's structured closer to standard convention that it's not similar at all.

I agree with veninblazer. The structure is more simple but the SOUND is unmistakably Underoath. The new tracks are much more in line with what I expected from Erase Me when it was announced.

This isn't a patch on DTGL, these comparisons are so weird lol

yea structurally this doesnt deviate much from Erase Me but sonically this is Underoath being Underoath which I quite enjoyed hearing.

Just gave this another listen. Fuck it, it's fun. Not the best song ever, but its decent.

"Is it just me, or does this song actually fuckin slap lol"

Nah, def not just you. It slap

Its Underoath being Underoath if Underoath was shit. This is just average af regardless of if you hear some old them in there

nice to know i’m not the only one man

these singles are just litsos pastiche on top of erase me songwriting. Which is weirdly worse. Big RIP to the greatest to ever do it

Good to see some fans of this song. One night of sleep can do wonders on how something is initially perceived and listening to the song once more today, I can still say it's really good.

Hell, I'm even coming around to his swearing.

Actually decent

Fucking hell, I'm even coming around to his swearing.*

Fixed!

Definitely doesn't sound like DTGL era (Disambiguation is best anyway). Nowhere near. Still catchy

bloc no [2]

since no one here wanna be real:

this song sucks, as soon as i heard it open with those stupids chants i knew this record is gonna suck.

keep it real y'all. same shit as last record. 1st single now seems like THE album highlight and you know im right lol

*gonna go listen to the post rocky goodness of Great Line..*

"this song sucks, as soon as i heard it open with those stupids chants i knew this record is gonna suck."

Lol jumping to the conclusion the entire record is gonna suck based off one part you didn't like. I mean I don't have high hopes either but c'mon at least give it a chance

Most likely this will be the album highlight, that I can admit

ill be real i came in heated with that first comment y'all

its my primitive ape genes.

but also, can tell from the songs now how LITTLE intricate lead guitar there will be, which IMO is a lot of what they are missing since Erase Me

I like this one more than Damn Excuses tbh.

Aaron intricately ate all the lead guitar work

Oh no matter how good the new album is, we all roasting that fat sonofabitch.

Why, you ask?

Answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZqo4OZ0Pqs

Rofl

https://youtu.be/cTzMTw_3FUs

"these singles are just litsos pastiche on top of erase me songwriting. Which is weirdly worse. Big RIP to the greatest to ever do it" yeah to be completely honest i wouldn't be shocked if i rank this BELOW Erase Me but it'll probably be equal or slightly higher.

"these singles are just litsos pastiche on top of erase me songwriting. Which is weirdly worse. Big RIP to the greatest to ever do it" [2]


i can see that structurally but the first single at least felt like more enjoyable than all of Erase Me (am i the only one who hated the closer? jesus fuck, we get it, its a minor chord vibe, DO SOMETHING INTERESTING OR POWERFUL)

lmao

"(am i the only one who hated the closer? jesus fuck, we get it, its a minor chord vibe, DO SOMETHING INTERESTING OR POWERFUL)" a lot of people hated it, i thought it worked perfectly for a simple vibe.

like mwY swore and it was fine but spencer sounds like every badly written teenager ever using / the fuck word / the song is fun i guess / made me want to listen to disambiguation again so thats something / epitome of a 3/5 song i reckon / oh well no one will care because its releasing next year lol

we'll see...

Man, this new stuff is making me appreciate Static Dress even more. They do Underoath better than the actual Underoath.

They need to drop their album and save us from boring post hardcore

Yeah they go hard

The singer even looks like Spencer lol

static dress are good except for the mix of the vocals

They should've never come back

Static Dress mix the vocals way too fucking low I can barely hear him in the mix

I’ve decided this is worse than anything on Erase Me. Band has to retire.

If you want good post hardcore/ metalcore check out Castor's Hollow you plebs