Gitarrist Tim McTague sagt über das neue Album:
“The Place After This One is a multi-faceted idea. The fact that we grew up so sheltered and spiritual, and are trying to reconcile how we grew up against what we see now in the new age. Underoath, albeit intact and the same, is simultaneously so different. Our band has gone through a lot of chaos. I think there’s something beautiful about the idea of not just abandoning everything when things get weird. Whether it be your faith, or your band, or your marriage, or your relationships. The idea that there is a place after this one, even if it’s with the same people or it’s with the same God, or it’s with the same town. Things compound when it’s good, and you just cut out the things that are bad.”
Nach einer Reihe neuer Singles, die letztes Jahr veröffentlicht wurden – darunter „Generation No Surrender“, „Survivor's Guilt“ und „Teeth“ – kehrt die Band nun mit einem neuen, kraftvollen Song und dem dazugehörigen Musikvideo zurück:
Sänger Spencer Chamberlain nennt den Song “...one of the most out-there songs we've ever written. We really wanted to create a track that was drum-and-bass-driven, kind of in the vein of The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Noisia, etc. We also pulled elements from Justice and The Streets. There’s a darkness to those artists that’s so heavy and interesting to me, and we really wanted to embrace that on this song. To me, this is kind of our version of that—sharing a lot of those elements and vibes but still keeping the heaviness of Underoath at its core.”
Er sagt weiter:
“Lyrically, I wrote it from the place I used to go whenever something went wrong in my life, which I think we can all relate to. It's a place I now consciously avoid when things fall apart. But it’s that moment when everything in your life has fallen apart, you’re at the bar, and you just don’t care anymore. Maybe it’s the end of a relationship, the loss of a friend or family member, or you just got fired—whatever it may be, we've all had a night like this. It’s a scary feeling, and it’s a place I never want to go back to, but that’s the song in a nutshell. It’s pretty on the nose, so to speak, but I felt like I needed to write it down to remind myself to never go there again.”
"The Place After This One" erscheint via MNRK HEAVY am 28.03.2025.
Track Listing:
Generation No Surrender
Devil
Loss
Survivor’s Guilt
All The Love Is Gone
And Then There Was Nothing
Teeth
Shame
Spinning in Place
Vultures (feat. Troy Sanders of Mastadon)
Cannibal
Outsider
Drummer und Co-Vocalist Gillespie, der als Teenager die erste Version der Gruppe mitbegründete, sieht "The Place After This" als Beginn des nächsten 20-jährigen Kapitels.
The Underoath story is one of longevity. We’ve had to tear it down to the ground to bring it back. We are in a place where we genuinely love and enjoy each other’s presence and making music together again.
