Having just announced a worldwide tour where they’ll be playing their 2004 album They’re Only Chasing Safety in its entirety, Underoath have certainly been busy on their next batch of new material as well. Having released a couple singles in 2023 to (slo)tide over fans in the interim, it does indeed appear that a new record from the band will be arriving pretty soon.
According to both Revolver and Underoath, though, they’re just about done recording their upcoming full-length album. Spencer Chamberlain spoke at length about the new record, saying:
“I’ve been proud of everything we’ve done, truthfully,” he says. “Even some of the older stuff that I don’t really connect with anymore, I can look back at it and be proud of where we were at that specific time. But I don’t [think] I’ve felt like this about new Underoath in a very long time. I think the last time I felt like this was when we made [2006’s] Define the Great Line, coming off [2004’s] They’re Only Chasing Safety — that [artistic] shift [of] not knowing what we were doing but knowing [it was] something special. That’s how I feel right now.”
It’s interesting to think about what the new direction might sound like for Underoath. Will it be a more commercial one in the vein of Erase Me? Something a bit more experimental like Disambiguation? We’ll be listening in short order.
