Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022) Album • Page 113

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The moral of this story is that when given an opportunity, people will be dumb every time.

 

It's always going to be somebody's first Underoath show, and at that first show they're probably gonna want to hear writing on the walls. I've accepted it at this point.

 

Writing on the Walls >>> preaching break during shows

 

Anyone know the encore from last night?

 

If the album wasn’t in the can, mixed, and mastered it would be cool. I personally would prefer new music over an anniversary tour, but if they’re dropping a song a month it has to be coming in 3-4 months. It really irks me when bands put out half the record before a release and drop a song every few weeks for 6 months.

 

If the band and the die hards want Disambiguation songs so bad maybe just do a Disambiguation tour and fan voted setlists that are just the hits lol.

 

a disambiguation tour would legit only have people from chorus going I think

It is the best record tho

 

Since the rest of the band was trying to get the fans to outvote Aaron so they could do Disamb songs, I bet there's no way he signs off on a tour like that. I would so be there though.

 

Why is Aaron so against it? It’s not like he won’t have anything to do while Spencer is singing, I thought he might love putting his own flair on the album and not having to worry about carrying songs/parts as much as he would normally.

 

Last night's encore again was a carbon copy of every other night:
In Regards to Myself
A Moment Suspended in Time
10 Friends
When the Sun Sleeps
Writing on the Walls

 

Dunno. He definitely gives off the vibe of not being into it, or at least not embracing it as part of the catalogue now that he's back in the band. I could speculate as to why but I will refrain. Agreed that it would be cool to hear his spin on the songs.

 

I'm checking stats on setlist.fm and it looks like ever since Aaron returned they've only played Illuminator and Paper Lung. That's a shame.

 

I'm not going to refrain from speculation. I imagine it's because he has a massive ego and doesn't consider those songs worth playing.

 

Yeah, I think about Josh in Coheed, he talks about how intimidating/challenging it is for him to do the No World for Tomorrow songs. Those were "written" by Chris Pennie, then played by Taylor Hawkins, who are pretty different players to Josh. I still love to hear the intricacies in playing styles when Coheed play those songs live.

 

I was present for the actual Disambiguation tour, as I'm sure many of you were, and it was one of the lowest attended shows I've ever seen for a band of this caliber. Like, it was actually sad. I can't imagine that the demand is suddenly higher to hear those songs 14 years later - especially for fans attending an anniversary tour of Safety. It's a bummer, but not sure what anyone can do about it.

 

I think the general sentiment is it’s their dark horse record. One of the best ones that didn’t get as much love as it should have when they toured on it. IMO they should do LITSOS and Disambiguation like they did rebirth then the general audience would come for Lost and get their minds blown by disambiguation. Also a very long time ago when they got back together either tim or Spencer said if they ever did a disambiguation tour they would invite Daniel back to play because he wrote it. That would be insane if it happened. I dont think Aaron hates the record or has bad feelings. He and Daniel were on that twitch stream when they did played the record and talked about it and he doesn’t seem to have any bad blood. He just gives shit for the drum parts and how intensely heavy it is, but it all sounded good spirited and not angry or genuinely upset.

 

I actually met Josh recently, super nice dude. We chatted about Coheed's discog a bit and his love and excitement for YOTB and NWFT was so pure and encapsulates everything warm about him.

 

Remember when they were supposed to do a Disambiguation livestream and then just never did?

 

Still salty about this. The tease at the end of the last observatory stream.

 

Yeah Coheed are my favorite band, and I used to idolize Claudio, but now I think if given a choice to hang out with a member for a day it would definitely be Josh. He seems to legitimately be the nicest guy in the world.

 

My band opened a show in Worcester, MA and apparently he is family friends with the headlining band's family. So seeing him walk in was widely surprising. We got to chatting and he was apologetic for not catching my band's set, like that mattered at that point. We ended up chatting for like an hour, incredible dude.

 

I think a disambig tour or any of those songs beyond paper lung/division/illuminator re-entering the rotation is wildly unrealistic but in a 16 song setlist I think it’s ridiculous to assert that there isn’t room for 1-3 deep cuts from lost or disambig, especially if they genuinely want to play them and since we didn’t get the livestream. While I always wanna see new songs, the energy gets sucked out of the room every time they play literally anything not off safety or define, so let’s drop any given song that’s not reinventing/boy brushed/dangers/writing/in regards if those have to stay and plug in 1-3+ other unplayed songs. The other 11 songs are barely getting love as it is and people still come out so at least appease the 14 of us that went to the disambig tour.

im always grateful to see the band and I’ll see em even if they play reinventing 15 times but it’s getting harder to get excited to dish out $45 and travel to see shows if both myself and the band are rolling our eyes at the set list.

 

We haven't gotten Rapture yet so we're chilling

 

It's wild to me how underrated this band's full discography is. I've never much enjoyed TOCS and think DTGL, LITSOS, and Disambiguation are three of the best heavy records I've ever heard (Voyeurist is great too but not at that level). I really wish the fanbase could find it in themselves to check out and love the rest of the discography.