Underoath - Erase Me (April 6, 2018) Album • Page 38

That's EXACTLY how I've thought of those three albums. Did I get that from somewhere? Or is it just understood that they all carry that vibe?

 

Well LITSOS is pretty upfront about it with titles like "Emergency Broadcast :: The End is Near" and "Desolate Earth" lol

I can't speak for others, but listening to that album (obsessively) was when I first started thinking there was an apocalyptic story sort of running through. When "Illuminator" first dropped I got huge 'post-apocalyptic tribes roaming the earth' vibes from the lyrics, so I guess I extended the story out to the surrounding albums then? Obviously you can't interpret them too literally because there's a lot of lyrics specifically about Spencer's drug addiction and so on, but there's definitely a loose outline at the least that you can colour in with your own details.

 

"I steady my hands, inside of my shell and wait until their backs are turned.
Inside of my head where they thought they would win, but I got them right where I want them, pushed to either side.
I'm burning them alive. I hear them, begging and pleading"

What do you think this last bit of Catch Myself Catching Myself in in reference to? I've looked at it from the simple viewpoint that the lyrics are about temptation, as if addictions had manifested their own manic voices, but am curious to know if other users have a separate interpretation.

 

I always read it as just referring to dark thoughts and negative influence, but that’s admittedly probably my own projections. I am weary sometimes though of prescribing a known album theme to every last lyric.

That’s also one of my favorite lyrics/parts on the album.

 

I have never loved Disambiguation more than I do now after having revisited their discography. I've always had it below Define and LitSoS, but now I feel like I could make a good case for any of their last three records being their best.

 

yeah Disambig absolutely slaps. It would probably take my top spot except for two nitpicks (slight repetitiveness in songwriting towards the second half, and some of Spencer's high screams don't sound too great at all). still in terms of lyrics, production and overall atmosphere it's pretty much their peak

 

WHERE IS MY FIX????!!!!!!!

 

34 days!

 

This is exactly where I’m at right now. Define the Great Line is still my favorite but I have a whole new love and appreciation for Disambiguation.

 

Here 4 this

Disambiguation is the gr8est

 

It's sad this is the line I relate to most on the album

 

Wish you guys would've been on team disambiguation seven and a half years ago when it changed my life

 

Listening to Disambiguation a ton this week made me realize how much I want an Underoath/O’Brother tour

 

Open your lungs, follow me down
I set this off
Keep swimming, keep swimming
Oh God, I am emptier than you

 

when they spun away
i fell apart

 

Yes

 

What’s everyone’s favorite Underoath riff? The one starting at 0:35 in Everyone Looks So Good From Here is up there for me.

 

desperate times, desperate measures

 

idk about favorite but 1:35 of returning empty handed is one i like a lot; your selection is great too

 

That’s a close #2 for me. What a great song.

 

Opening of In Regards to Myself and 1:40 in A Moment Suspended in Time.

 

its incredible; every time 2:35 rolls around i swear the lights starting flashing on and off until the song ends. messes me up.

 

I don’t know if I’ve ever been more proud of my guitar playing than when I learned the opening of In Regards to Myself when I was 15. What a way to start an album.

 

i actually didn't like that riff for years; i didn't come to really like it until quite recently; and then i learned it on guitar too haha

 

“Down here I tear out my veins and tie them to the chair
This goes on and on and on
Unraveled in contortions, I run for the door
This goes on and on and on”