Metal Anarchy

Underoath have revealed the details for their new album “The Place After This One.” The effort will be released on March 28 and it can be pre-ordered HERE.

“The Place After This One” Track Listing:

01. “Generation No Surrender”
02. “Devil”
03. “Loss”
04. “Survivor’s Guilt”
05. “All The Love Is Gone”
06. “And Then Were Was Nothing”
07. “Teeth”
08. “Shame”
09. “Spinning In Place”
10. “Vultures” (feat. Troy Sanders of Mastodon)
11. “Cannibal”
12. “Outsider”

Vocalist Spencer Chamberlain commented on the album:

“I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: I’m proud of everything we’ve ever done and stand behind it wholeheartedly, BUT I don’t think I’ve felt this way about an album we’ve made since ‘Define the Great Line.’ Now, that’s not to say they ‘sound’ the same, but I’ll never forget the feeling I had when I listened to what we created for the first time all the way through on that album. I haven’t felt that way again until we did the same thing with this new album. I had this overwhelming feeling listening back to ‘TPATO,’ with every hair on my body standing on end, thinking, ‘Holy shit, this is IT!’

When creating music, I always come from a place of ‘What do I want to hear when I’m driving my car?” and ‘What’s missing from heavy music that I’m not getting anymore?’ And that is matched with, ‘But all four of these guys have to feel that way as well,’ which is a very, very hard feat to accomplish—but we finally did it. I felt like there’s a sense of urgency and anxiety missing from modern heavy music. I wanted to feel like I did when I was a kid, when I first discovered heavy music. We were chasing a vibe more than anything. There are so many elements from the past that I love on this album, yet so many new territories we’ve always been too scared to explore.

Lyrically, this album explores many different topics, from addiction and loss to where I see us going as a species—and more. But the personal anger and frustration I went through, I got to write about from the other side, which was awesome. I had clarity on the situation before writing about it, whereas normally I’m in the thick of it, just trying to tread water while writing.

I feel like I could talk for hours about our new album, but I truly do believe this is the start of the next chapter for Underoath. This begins the next 20 years.”

Guitarist Tim McTague also chimed in:

“’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.”

An official music video for the effort’s latest single, “All The Love Is Gone,” can be found below. Chamberlain added the following about that track:

“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.

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…”