Following a sold-out Canadian tour and thrilling shows in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Japan on the Taste of Chaos international trek, Underoath are gearing up for a Spring North America tour. The critically acclaimed sextet; lead vocalist Spencer Chamberlain, guitarist Tim Mctague, bassist Grant Brandell, drummer Aaron Gillespie, keyboardist Christopher Dudley and guitarist James Smith; will launch a seven-week nationwide tour with Taking Back Sunday and Armor For Sleep on February 22nd with Canadian dates scheduled for the latter part of March.

Underoath’s third album, Define The Great Line, released June 20th, 2006 on Tooth & Nail/Solid State Records, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart is now certified gold. This follows the success of They’re Only Chasing Safety, their 2004 indie smash, which has now surpassed 405,000 copies sold. Define The Great Line continues to garner a multitude of accolades:

Los Angeles Times: “The album delves into new sonic territory, exploring phasing and untried guitar sounds…” (7/1/06)

USA Today: ”... singer Spencer Chamberlain howls against jagged riffs and rhythms that shift so suddenly he sounds like he’s walking an active fault line” (7/13/06)

SPIN: ”... dense, chaotic metal-core that emphasizes the struggle inherent in faith. The band’s third album adds an extra dose of melody to the dual-guitar, scream-and-sing attack” (7/06)

Metal Edge: ”... an insanely ambitious record full of shifts in tempo, groove and even time signature… Define The Great Line has a carefully chosen song-sequence and is designed to be listened to as a whole, rather than as a few singles and some filler or a grab bag of disconnected tunes.” (8/06)

In their 5-star review, Alternative Press beamed of the album: ”... artfully updating their early, brutal style with weird time changes, jarring electronic textures and post-metal ambience—the end result is transcendent” (July ‘06). Meanwhile, last October the magazine placed the band on their cover hailing the music “an unrelenting examination of self that tests the bounds of hope, faith and forgiveness that’s as technical as it is melodic and uncompromising as it is inspirational.”

Of the album’s current single You’re Ever So Inviting, Billboard took note that it “has Underoath coming out fighting in the New Year… Driven by the overlapping vocals of drummer Aaron Gillespie and frontman Spencer Chamberlain, the former’s traditional singing alternates with the latter’s scratchy screams…Timothy McTague and James Smith saw the air with their guitars, doggedly carving out the song’s tormented aggression. You’re Ever So Inviting wrings your ears with a twisting grip and doesn’t let go.” (1/20/07)

Underoath just returned from Sweden where they shot two new videos with the avant-garde production team PopCore Films, who also directed the group’s smash Writing On The Walls clip which received a Grammy® nomination for “Best Short Form Music Video”. Expect to see the videos for their new single You’re Ever So Inviting and the upcoming A Moment Suspended In Time later this year in conjunction with their fall headlining tour.

For more information on the tour visit the YMZ Concert section.

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