Underoath is a Main/{{Metalcore}} band from Florida founded by Dallas Taylor and Luke Morton in 1997 and currently fronted by Spencer Chamberlain and Aaron Gillespie. They are currently signed with MNRK Heavy.

With original vocalist Dallas Taylor, they released three albums with a more {{Black metal}} inspired sound. Following his departure, Spencer Chamberlain became lead vocalist. The band then released the {{new sound album}}s ''They're Only Chasing Safety'' and ''Define the Great Line''. These two albums have given them more mainstream and commercial success.

They have received two Grammy nominations in 2007 and 2010 respectively, and while signed to Solid State, were about the most commercially and critically successful [[ChristianRock Christian]] rock/metal band out there, garnering a fanbase even from non-religious music fans. The band moved away from faith-based music in 2018 with their comeback album ''Erase Me''.

'''Members:'''
* Spencer Chamberlain - Lead vocals (since 2003)
* Grant Brandell – bass guitar (since 2002)
* Aaron Gillespie – drums, clean vocals (1997–2010, 2015 -)
* Christopher Dudley – keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, programming (since 2000)
* Timothy [=McTague=] – lead guitar, backing vocals (since 2001)

'''Former members:'''
* Rey Anasco – bass guitar (1997–1999)
* Matthew Clark – bass guitar (2000–2001)
* Octavio Fernandez – rhythm guitar (2000–2003), bass guitar (1999–2000)
* Daniel Davison – drums (2010 - 2013)
* Luke Morton – lead guitar (1997–1999)
* Billy Nottke – bass guitar (2001–2002)
* Kelly Scott Nunn – rhythm guitar (2002–2003)
* Corey Steger – rhythm guitar (1998–1999), lead guitar (2000–2001), backing vocals (1998–2001)
* Dallas Taylor – lead vocals (1997–2003)
* James Smith – rhythm guitar (2003-2023)

'''Discography:'''
* ''Act of Depression'' (1999)
* ''Cries of the Past'' (2000)
* ''The Changing of Times'' (2002)
* ''They're Only Chasing Safety'' (2004)
* ''Define the Great Line'' (2006)
* ''Lost in the Sound of Separation'' (2008)
* ''Ø (Disambiguation)'' (2010)
* ''Erase Me'' (2018)
* ''Voyeurist'' (2022)

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!!Tropes associated with Underoath:

* ArcSymbol: The infamous Ø.
* AlbumTitleDrop: "We Are the Involuntary" does this for ''Lost in the Sound of Separation''.
** "ihateit" for ''Erase Me'':
---> ''God, '''erase me'''\\
I don't deserve the life you give''
* AnimatedMusicVideo: For the song "Too Bright to See, Too Loud to Hear."
* TheBandMinusTheFace: ''Ø (Disambiguation)'' was made while drummer and clean vocalist Aaron Gillespie was out of the band.
* BuriedAlive: Touched on in the chorus of "In Division."
* CelebrityResemblance: [[http://celebritywonder.ugo.com/picture/Spencer_Chamberlain/SpencerChamb_S_Lovekin_14534372.jpg Spencer]] and [[http://i.imgur.com/SerzteN.jpg Tyler Smith]] of Music/TheWordAlive could practically be brothers. And when Tyler substituted for Spencer after the latter fell ill during a tour, their own vocal similarities became apparent as well.
* ChristianRock: Originally, though they started shifting away from the genre a bit with ''Ø (Disambiguation)'', and officially confirmed a departure from it with ''Erase Me''.
* ConceptAlbum: ''Lost in the Sound of Separation'' has many shades of this, with [[FadingIntoTheNextSong many songs merging into each other]] and each song telling some kind of story, implied to be about the Apocalypse.
** Considering the lyrical themes/band's shtick with Christian themes, there's a possibility the album is about the second coming of Christ.
** ''Cries of the Past'' seems to be a story of a man who reaches the DespairEventHorizon before finding his true love, who he then loses in a car accident he caused. Rumors keep circulating that the album was inspired by Dallas Taylor's loss of his "fiancee", but this has never been proven true.
** ''Erase Me'' features themes of betrayal, loss, anxiety and disillusionment when holding onto a belief and faith, a ''complete'' 180 from the religious themes espoused in their previous work.
* CrisisOfFaith: The band as a whole experienced this in their period of inactivity, which was exacerbated by Spencer's drug addiction. When the band reunited, they publicly renounced all ties not only with the Christian rock community but with the religion as a whole, and as detailed, ''Erase Me'' has this trope as its overarching concept.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Define the Great Line'' saw the band abandon the accessible sound of ''They're Only Chasing Safety'' for a heavier style influenced by {{Grunge}} and PostRock.
** ''Erase Me'', at least from a lyrical standpoint. It marks the first time the band ever fully distanced themselves from their religious themes. Also apparent with the F-bomb in "On My Teeth". The follow-up album, ''Voyeurist'', is even more lyrically aggressive featuring many more F-bombs, as well as themes like death, sorrow and the afterlife.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Act of Depression'' and ''Cries of the Past'' have heavy influences from DeathMetal and BlackMetal.
* EpicRocking: The bulk of their early material — the shortest song on ''Act of Depression'' clocks in at 5:50, while the shortest song on ''Cries of the Past'' is 7:36. Also shows up on ''Define the Great Line'' with the last song "To Whom It May Concern" which is 7:02 and ''Voyuerist'' with the last song "Pneumonia" which is 7:12.
* FieryRedhead: Aaron.
* IAmTheBand: Aaron Gillespie has been the only remaining founding member since Dallas Taylor's departure.
* InNameOnly: After drummer Aaron Gillespie left. Averted with their reunion as Aaron has now returned.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The 2010 album, ''Ø (Disambiguation)'', was made without founding member Aaron Gillespie, leaving the band with no more original members. Vocalist Spencer Chamberlain took over Aaron's clean singing along with the HarshVocals he had been dedicated to for the previous three albums. Musically, the album borrows heavily from [[DoomMetal sludge metal]] and mathcore, resulting in a very dark and intense sound.
* LeadDrummer: Aaron Gillespie serves as this, being the de-facto leader and part of the VocalTagTeam with Spencer Chamberlain.
* LighterAndSofter: Everything after ''Cries of the Past'', though ''They're Only Chasing Safety'' was by far the poppiest when it first dropped. Starting with ''Define the Great Line'', however, the band began moving back in a DarkerAndEdgier direction as far as both sound '''and''' (by extension) themes went. ''Erase Me'' -- for the most part -- puts much bigger focus on AlternativeRock trappings with the occasional bursts of Main/{{Industrial}} music here and there, thereby making it the lightest and softest Underoath release since their 2004 LP.
* LongRunnerLineUp: While originally a RevolvingDoorBand, the current lineup qualifies as a Type 5, lasting from 2003 to 2010, and then again from 2015 to 2023.
* MetalScream: Original frontman Dallas Taylor is a type 3, Spencer Chamberlain uses a type 1.
* NewSoundAlbum:
** ''The Changing of Times'' ditched most of the extreme metal elements of their first two albums in favor of a melodic metalcore sound.
** ''They're Only Chasing Safety'' was more or less straightforward post-hardcore/screamo with very little metal influence.
** ''Define The Great Line'' brought back the metalcore sound and added PostRock and mathcore elements. They would continue to pursue this sound on ''Lost In The Sound of Seperation'' and ''Ø''.
** ''Erase Me'' is pretty similar to ''They're Only Chasing Safety'' but with more clean singing and some industrial influences.
* PerishingAltRockVoice: Spencer Chamberlain's "clean" vocals.
* PrecisionFStrike: "On My Teeth", the lead single from ''Erase Me'' (and the band's comeback single), opens with the line "''Let's get this straight/I'm fine without you/I'm not your '''fucking''' prey!''" This caused some controversy with the band's Christian fanbase.
* ReligionRantSong: In a rather surprising turn of events, the song "On My Teeth" is this. Spencer claimed that [[https://musicfeeds.com.au/features/christianity-ruined-life-underoaths-spencer-chamberlain-talks-moving-past-setting-fire-rule-book-album-8/ Christianity ruined his life]] and the song "On My Teeth" is about how Spencer felt betrayed by Christianity since it did not help him with his drug addiction. Matter of fact, much of ''Erase Me'' falls into this trope as both Types 1 and 2.
--> '''Spencer:''' I’m not saying religion is wrong for everyone, but for me it was wrong. It ruined my life, turned me into a drug addict and people were awful to me the whole time. I never felt more alone in my life than when I was Christian.
** "Heart of Stone" is directed at those who use Christianity as a pretext for bigotry against others. Notably, it still affirms belief in Jesus Christ, and condemns fundamentalists for sullying Christianity's reputation.
** "Damn Excuses", the first track of ''Voyeurist'', is by far their most upfront song against religion since their reunion, and airs how the band sees Christianity as nothing more than a tool to prey on vulnerable people to exploit them.
* RevolvingDoorBand: The band went through a lot of lineup changes until none of the original members appeared on ''Disambiguation'', though, aside from Aaron's departure and eventual return, they had otherwise been stable from the time Spencer joined the band (2003) to the time James left (2023).
* SopranoAndGravel: Aaron (soprano) and Spencer (gravel), though Spencer will occasionally throw in some clean singing of his own. ''Ø'', the only album without Aaron, had Spencer doing screaming and singing in equal measure.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Spoken passages appeared prominently on the Dallas Taylor albums.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Spencer seems to be lip-synching underwater in the video for "In Division."
* VocalEvolution: Spencer Chamberlain started out with a high-pitched, breathy scream. Starting with ''Define the Great Line'', his screams would get deeper and throatier.
* VocalTagTeam: Spencer and Aaron, with the former providing the screams and Aaron providing the clean singing.
* WhamLine: ''Many'' people were surprised by Underoath's return with "On My Teeth' having the lyric "I'm not your '''''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]]''''' prey!", showing this was ''[[DarkerAndEdgier not the same Underoath]]'' everyone knows.
* YouAreNotAlone / YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: ''Define the Great Line'' has these themes, especially with the song "To Whom It May Concern" which basically says don't let life throw you down, push yourself through no matter what.

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