Joining Audacy host Morgan Freed this week on Emo Nite is Underoath drummer and vocalist Aaron Gillespie -- friends for some time and someone Morgan has been inspired by over the course of the pandemic because of the powerful live stream events his band has been hosting since early on.
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With a pause in touring and a need to reach their fans, Aaron says in the early days of live streaming the band was simply looking for ways to make their own productions unique. "Everything I saw, I didn't like," he says. "That's not a slight to any band, but... over watching it and saying 'no' to the idea of doing it like ten times, we discovered the reason we didn't like them. If you put a band on stage and put a steady camera, it's boring. It's boring to the regular eye."
"We had to figure out, 'how do we make this feel like a show?,'" Aaron explains. "We came up with the idea, it was you put like ten cameras in a circle and you make these guys get in there with you. Doing it, it felt like a show too."
Their forthcoming album, Voyeurist, will hit shelves and streaming services in January 2022 with pre-orders and sneak peeks available now. Recorded between January and around June of 2021, the new record will be the first offering the band has put forth with all of the production work being done themselves.
"Our last record was more, 'songs written in your standard Rock format,' which we set out to do purposely," Aaron says. "Our whole thing is from record to record we don't want to make the same thing. I think for certain bands that works. I don't want to hear blink-182 go on a 12-minute song journey; I want a banger, you know what I mean?" For Underoath, he says, "everything has always changed... so our whole thing was 'let's just make whatever we're gonna make, now. We hadn't played in front of people, to this day, since Thanksgiving of 2019, so there's this pent-up thing to it. I think all of it feels kind of urgent and I think that's because you get a bunch of guys who have played in front of people for 20 years and you tell them 'that's not gonna happen,' and then you have to make something --- and it just explodes."
Listen to the full interview with Aaron Gillespie above and keep up with Underoath on social media for updates, new music, and much more.
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