Underoath Pound the Summer Out of NYC!
Summer stragglers returned from Monday’s sun-scorched celebrations for Underoath’s Lost in the Sound of Separation CD release party at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza.
Opening act The Red Chord blast-beated their way through “Hospice Residence” and “Dreaming in Dog Years” to a floor-punching crowd of angry Christian metal heads. “We want to make you look hard in your Devil Wears Prada or Saosin shirts,” Chords’ Guy Kozowyk joked, as he poked fun at the legion of Underoath followers who waited in anticipation for their screamo saviors to take center stage.
The majority of Underoath’s hour-long emotive metal set drew from 2006’s Define the Great Line, only briefly touching on the newer songs from Lost in the Sound of Separation, which vocalist Spencer Chamberlain described to SPIN.com as “heavier, darker and more experimental.” But spin-kicking students still managed to swirl their arms into a frenzied hurricane of windmills and aggressive [...]
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