"If you liked (or loved) the previous Underoath albums, I recommend this album with my highest of approvals!!! "

Follow up:

10/10

1. "Breathing in a New Mentality"
2. "Anyone Can Dig A Hole But It Takes A Real Man To Call It Home"
3. "A Fault Line, A Fault of Mine"
4. "Emergency Broadcast :: The End Is Near"
5. "The Only Survivor Was Miraculously Unharmed"
6. "We Are The Involuntary"
7. "The Created Void"
8. "Coming Down Is Calming Down"
9. "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures" Watch the video!
10. "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear:
11. "Desolate Earth :: The End is Here"

When I purchased Underoath's fourth attempt at taking over the world, "Lost In the Sound of Separation", I had no doubt in my mind what I was buying was going to be a great album. Upon listening to the album, I realized that I got exactly that! The boys from Tampa have definitely bumped it up a notch with this album. The album clocks in at 41 minutes long, which is just enough time for UO to prove they have not lost their touch. They have continued their "heavy here, conceptual there" pattern of writing, and personally, I wouldn't have it any other way. They have progressed so much since their debut album "The Changing of Times" in which Dallas Taylor fronted the band (now in Birmingham, Alabama's southern sensation Maylene and the Sons of Disaster).

From the first track, "Breathing in a new mentality" our favorite vocalist Spencer Chamberlain kicks off the journey with the lines " I'm the desperate, and You're the savior" immediately reminding anyone in doubt that these guys are still, and always will be, 100% Christian. Each track on the album has a certain air of hopelessness added to them, with Spencer crying out to God for help, admitting his wrong doings and explaining what is going through his mind, and what is happening to his body (in it's temple form). Don't let the Christianity fool you though, I have never been in a church before and wanted to mosh as hard as Underoath makes me.Almost every song has hit potential, just as the last three albums, with choruses that have you driving down the road screaming at the top of your lungs.

By track four "Emergency Broadcast: the End is Near", the album takes a turn down a dark and winding road, with a lot of excellent tom work from drummer Aaron Gillespie (also the vocalist for the Almost) and repetitive guitar riffs. The vocals are deep and intense, getting away from the first couple of tracks in which they are higher screams and loud yells. That track spaces out a little bit, but the vocals continue to batter and bruise, which is what we love so much from UO, finally closing out with cymbals crashing, and ringing feedback and distortion, straight into the next track, "the Only Survivor Was Miraculously Unharmed" which opens up with an edgy, dirty breakdown, over which Spencer growls an excellent stage rushing opportunity" Repeat! Repeat! Repent! Repeat! The cycle never really ends". This is one of the stronger tracks on the album.

Towards the middle of the album everything begins to calm down a bit. In "the Created Void" Aaron really gets to show his vocal capabilities. After a short spell of calm waters and pretty guitars, it's back to business as usual with the brutal eighth and ninth tracks "Coming Down Is Calming Down" and "Desperate Times Desperate Measures". "Too Bright To see, Too Loud To Hear" is the 10th track on the album, and it is definitely a "lighter raiser". "Desolate Earth: the End Is Here" closes the album out and it really gives Christopher Dudley his first chance to spread his wings with some simple yet beautiful piano parts.

If you liked (or loved) the previous Underoath albums, I recommend this album with my highest of approvals!!!

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