History Trivia / Unearth

* CreatorBreakdown: Trevor admitted to having one of these when the band reached Canada in 2003, at roughly the same time as a SARS outbreak and the beginning of the US military's invasion of Iraq. The meltdown manifested in the immediate moment as a lengthy, drunken tirade about the George W. Bush administration. Longer-term, it appears to have pushed Trevor into writing more {{Protest Song}}s for ''The Oncoming Storm'' and subsequent albums.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Trevor Phipps almost wasn't in the band. The rest of the band, then still going under their original name Point 04, had approached him while he was recovering from appendicitis, but he had been reluctant to join at that time. However, he was already part of another project run by Susi, himself a late addition to the band, and showed up to a scheduled jam session for that only to find Susi still working with Unearth. It was at this session that Trevor first heard "Shattered By The Sun", which impressed him enough to accept a second request to join the band.

* CreativeDifferences: The band portrayed Derek Kerswill's departure as being amicable, and based entirely on "musical differences". Kerswill did not contest this characterization (by his own admission, he was a rock drummer who just kept getting hired on by metal bands, and while he joined Unearth because they were his friends and he thought it'd be fun, he burned out fairly quickly), and even returned for one show shortly before Nick was first recruited.
%%* HostilityOnTheSet: Heavily implied with Mike Justian during his first stint, as the press release announcing his firing not only made it clear he was being fired, but also stated "We are not in the business of airing dirty laundry", thus seeming to indicate that some sort of serious incident had occurred despite also serving to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain shut down all conversation from their end on said incident]]. People have noticed similar trends with Justian, such as his swift termination from Music/TrapThem a few years after leaving Unearth, as well as his revolving-door relationship with Music/TheRedChord that seems to have been almost entirely related to his and Guy Kozowyk's ability to co-exist on the same stage at any given time. Regardless, it seems he later buried the hatchet with Trevor and Buz at least, given his return to the band in 2022.

* NamesTheSame:
** The band shares its name with an obscure, long disbanded DeathMetal band from Albuquerque.
** Based on the subverted TitleDrop in the title track to ''Darkness in the Light'', it's possible that the band may have originally intended to name the album '''''Shadows''' in the Light'', which would've made it this to the seventh album from Music/{{Immolation}}.

%%* HostilityOnTheSet: Heavily implied with Mike Justian during his first stint, as the press release announcing his firing not only made it clear he was being fired, but also stated "We are not in the business of airing dirty laundry", thus making it clear that some sort of serious incident had occurred despite also serving to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain shut down all conversation from their end on said incident]]. People have noticed similar trends with his swift termination from Music/TrapThem a few years after leaving Unearth, as well as his revolving-door relationship with MU that seems to have been almost entirely related to his and Guy Kozowyk's ability to co-exist on the same stage at any given time. Regardless, it seems he later buried the hatchet with Trevor and Buz at least, given his return to the band in 2022.

* CreativeDifferences: The band portrayed Derek Kerswill's departure as being amicable, and based entirely on "musical differences". Kerswill did not contest this characterization, and even returned for one show shortly before Nick was first recruited.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Trevor Phipps almost wasn't in the band. The rest of the band, then still going under their original name Point 04, had approached him while he was recovering from appendicitis, but he had been reluctant to join at that time. However, he was already part of another project run by Susi, himself a late addition to the band, and showed up to a scheduled jam session for that only to find Susi still working with Unearth. It was at this session that Trevor first heard "Shattered By The Sun", which impressed him enough to accept a second request to join the band.

* HeyItsThatGuy: A veritable wellspring of this in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoY_TyKvLGA video for "Grave Of Opportunity"]], featuring possibly half the Massachusetts Metalcore scene. Based on the video's comments, the most obvious is [[Music/AllThatRemains Phil Labonte]].

* The band shares its name with an obscure, long disbanded DeathMetal band from Albuquerque.
* Based on the subverted TitleDrop in the title track to ''Darkness in the Light'', it's possible that the band may have originally intended to name the album '''''Shadows''' in the Light'', which would've made it this to the seventh album from Music/{{Immolation}}.

* NamesTheSame: Based on the subverted TitleDrop in the title track to ''Darkness in the Light'', it's possible that the band may have originally intended to name the album '''''Shadows''' in the Light'', which would've made it this to the seventh album from Music/{{Immolation}}.

* CreativeDifferences: The band portrayed Derek Kerswill's departure as being amicable, and based entirely on "musical differences". Kerswill did not contest this characterization.

* PromotedFanboy: Nick Pierce. He first came to the attention of the band when they found YouTube videos of him covering drum tracks from their earlier work.

* CreativeDifferences: The band framed Kerswill's departure as entirely based on this, with no bad blood of any sort.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Trevor Phipps almost wasn't in the band. The rest of the band, then still going under their original name Point 04, had approached him while he was recovering from appendicitis, but he had been reluctant to join at that time. However, he was already part of another project run by Susi, himself a late addition to the band, and showed up to a scheduled jam session for that only to find Susi still working with Unearth. It was at this session that Trevor first heard "Shattered By The Sun", which impressed him enough to accept a second request to join the band.

* NoExportForYou: Subverted in the U.S. with "Throes of Remission" and the cover of "[[Music/{{Slayer}} Spirit In Black]]", which were left off the standard edition of ''Watchers of Rule'' but included on the deluxe version. Possibly played straight in Japan with "Trail to Fire" and "To the Ground", the songs "Throes" and "Spirit" replaced on their standard edition. (whether Japan's gotten its own deluxe edition is unclear)

* NamesTheSame: Based on the subverted TitleDrop in the title track to ''Darkness in the Light'', it's possible that the band may have originally intended to name the album '''''Shadows''' in the Light'', which would've made it this to the seventh album from Music/{{Immolation}}.

* NamesTheSame: Based on the subverted title drop in the title track to ''Darkness in the Light'', it's possible that the band may have originally intended to name the album '''''Shadows''' in the Light'', which would've made it this to the seventh album from Music/{{Immolation}}.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Trevor Phipps almost wasn't in the band. The rest of the band, then still going under their original name Point 04, had approached him while he was recovering from appendicitis, but he had been reluctant to join at that time. However, he was already part of another project run by Susi, himself a late addition to the band, and showed up to a scheduled jam session for that only to find Susi still working with Unearth. It was at this session that Trevor first heard "Shattered By The Sun", which impressed him enough to accept a second request to join the band.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Trevor Phipps almost wasn't in the band. The rest of the band, then still going under their original name Point 04, had approached him while he was recovering from appendicitis, but he had been reluctant to join at that time. However, he was already part of a side project of Susi's, himself a late addition to the band, and showed up to a scheduled jam session for that only to find Susi still working with Unearth. It was at this session that Trevor first heard "Shattered By The Sun", which impressed him enough to accept a second request to join the band.