"Lost in the Sound of Separation" Underoath

"Lost in the Sound of Separation"- Underoath

Underoath, the metalcore band, was originally a high school band that started in Ocala, Florida. As of April, 5, 2010, Underoath is now a completely different band then when it started. It’s last original member, Aaron Gillespie, left the band in April to focus on a different project. The last album Aaron was a part of was Lost in the Sound of Separation and that is why I am focusing on it.

One of my favorite things about Underoath is the drumming. Aaron Gillespie is a drummer that doesn’t play just straight 4/4 beats all the time. He constantly is changing up the fills and off beats throughout the song but it is done so perfectly. The engineer that was mostly in charge of tracking the drums for this album is Matt Goldman. One of the cool things they talked about in the documentary “The Making of Lost in the Sound of Separation” was how most drummers that come into Matt’s studio don’t usually end up using much if any of the drums that they are endorsed by to record. For this album though, Matt was extremely excited to use Aaron’s new set that Truth drums made for him. The set was more of a vintage looking set with a small kick drum. This was very big because it allowed him to play it a bit faster as well as it just plain sounded better.

Underoath is high dynamic, in your face type of band with a very unique style of vocals. There are two main vocalist for the band. The frontman for the band, Spencer Chamberlain, is the screamer vocalist. He does do a little singer here and there, but the clean singing voice is primarily sung by Aaron Gillespie who is also the drummer for the band. They do a intertwined vocal arrangement where they complement each other very well. One of the other great things about this band is their ability to connect their songs together within an album. There will be times where you don’t even realize that it has changed songs on you. There are way too many bands that put albums out of just singles that have nothing to do with each other, but Underoath puts them all together very well.

Underoath is probably my favorite band to listen to and that’s why I decided to write this blog on them. Anytime I’m in a bad mood, I know I can put one of their albums on really loud and just jam it out until I don’t care about what I was upset about before. “They’re Only Chasing Safety” was the first album I owned by them. I would fall asleep to it at least once a week for a lot of my middle school and high school years along with their other albums as they came out. I listen to them in my bad moods, but I also just love listening to them on my good days. Needless to say, they became my go to band to listen to at any time. The first two albums they put out were not that great at all, but when they put out “They’re Only Chasing Safety”, they found their sound and just perfected it after that.