UNDEROATH: ANNOUNCE THE MYSPACE GLOBAL PREMIERE OF THE VIDEO FOR “TOO BRIGHT TO SEE, TOO LOUD TO HEAR” THE NEW SINGLE

DT:      APRIL 22, 2009

FR:      LIBBY COFFEY-HENRY/CHELSI SCHRIVER/ANGELA VILLANUEVA

In a recent live review, the Orange County Register noted of the standout song:

"Too Bright to See, Too Loud to Hear’" showed why the group has moved far ahead of its metal peers. Armed with soaring instrumentals you'd expect from someone like Explosions in the Sky, combined with epic gang vocals and hand claps, Underoath makes clear that this is not a typical band. Not only does it know how to headbang but this is also a group of acute musicians, and that talent is what stood out the most.” (Jonathan Bautts, 11/16/08).

UNDEROATH–lead vocalist SPENCER CHAMBERLAIN, guitarist TIM MCTAGUE, bassist GRANT BRANDELL, drummer AARON GILLESPIE, keyboardist CHRISTOPHER DUDLEY and guitarist JAMES SMITH–continue to garner new fans and widespread critical acclaim for LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION as well as their powerful live performances. Check out more critical soundbites for UNDEROATH:

"Underoath's new album, LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION, is like one 43-minute-long roller-coaster ride: a vertiginous plunge through obsessively layered cacophony, complete with chaotic and sudden shifts of direction. [Tim] McTague and co-guitarist James Smith flail valiantly in the midst of the metalcore mayhem. …But LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION ventures even further afield than that: it actually contains some slow songs. 'Too Bright to See Too Loud to Hear' veers close to ballad territory, and 'Desolate Earth: The End Is Here' closes the album on a somber, meditative instrumental note that is rarely, if ever, heard in metalcore."

–Alan DiPerna, GUITAR WORLD, December 2008

"…LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION will surely prove to the world–at least those who listen to their gospel-that UNDEROATH are one of the most powerful, passionate and creative bands in heavy music today… LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION is truly 2008's first perfect record, which is made all the more fascinating when it's realized that it was created out of the mistakes, shortcomings and misgivings of its members from throughout the past two years. Once again, UNDEROATH have elevated themselves to a level of their own."

–Scott Heisel, ALTERNATIVE PRESS, September 2008 (5-OUT-OF-5 REVIEW)

"Unrelenting and often harrowing, Underoath's newest [LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION] is filled with the band's characteristic bone-crunching riffs and a reduced role from drummer/vocalist Aaron Gillespie, allowing frontman Spencer Chamberlain's guttural howls to take command…Chamberlain trades his screams for sung parts on 'Too Bright to See, Too Loud to Hear,' and the sparse, electronic-based closer 'Desolate Earth: The End Is Here' is largely instrumental except for a few lines…Underoath has made definitive strides at progression without abandoning its muscular, broad-shouldered hardcore."

–Evan Lucy, BILLBOARD, September 6, 2008 (CD REVIEW)

"After achieving definitive success with Define the Great Line, the metalcore outfit return with their much anticipated sixth studio album.  Highlights include first single 'Desperate Times, Desperate Measures,' which holds onto that familiar Underoath sound and thundering ballad 'Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear' which is quite possibly the most impressive and musically advanced song of theirs to date."

–Jen Walker, BIG CHEESE (National, monthly music; U.K., October 2008)

"'Desperate Times, Desperate Measures,' Underoath: Dual guitars tangle and tango in the forceful first single from LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION."

–Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY, September 16, 2008

"…[LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION] the group's third album with its current lineup…sharp and sometimes frighteningly bleak."

–Jon Caramanica, NEW YORK TIMES, September 4, 2008

"…impressively savage."

—TIME OUT NEW YORK, August 28, 2008

"LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION is a stark, brutal record that once again pushes the band's creative boundaries while also showcasing the refinement that comes with age…With its lean song structures and 10-ton guitar riffs combined with Chamberlain's face-peeling vocals LOST…finds a way to push the envelope even further than Define The Great Line." 

–Brendan Manley, ALTERNATIVE PRESS

Cover story, Fall Preview, October 2008

"…the riveting 'A Fault Line, A Fault of Mine' and 'Emergency Broadcast: The End Is Near,' two slightly experimental, highly melodic cuts make that four, as 'Too Bright to See Too Loud to Hear' and near-instrumental closer 'Desolate Earth: The End Is Near' are mini-masterpieces of hope and anguish that not only signal growth for the Florida ensemble, but deliver on the dark promises that haunted Define the Great Line, exposing a more mature, post-apocalyptic nightmare that manages to give equal time to both loss and redemption, declaring allegiance to neither. "

–James Christopher Monger, ALL MUSIC GUIDE, September 2008

"With LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION, Underoath have truly become heavy music's equivalent of Radiohead. Much like every hipster's favorite English band, Underoath's albums are equally enigmatic and atmospheric, transcending standard genre confines and venturing into rarely charted sonic territory. If 2006's Define The Great Line was Underoath's OK Computer-the record that broke the band to a mainstream audience-then LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION is Underoath's Kid A. In other words, even though it's a decided evolution from their last offering, LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION is a terse and haunting statement of a record that will affect fans for many years to come."

–Rick Florino, ARTIST DIRECT.COM, September 2, 2008

 
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