Luego de presentarte la entrevista que AltPress.com le hizo a Spencer Chamberlain vocalista de Underoath te traemos unos extractos muy interesantes sobre las declaraciones del guitarrista de la banda Tim McTague quién en muchas ocasiones no tuvo pensa de mencionar el nombre de Dios y de dejar en claro que Underoath siempre tuvo el proposito de mostrar a Dios a su público que se mostraba tan alejado de Él. Lee la entrevista completa aquí.
"...the goal of Underoath was to change as much about music as possible and to reach as many people as we could while doing that".
"I think our first non-Christian tour was, like, Terror, Throwdown and Bleeding Through, maybe, and us. They were all great bands. It was never my dream scenario, but as far as being part of the cutting-edge hardcore culture, yeah, absolutely. It was great."
"Those things never happened at the same time, especially on an independent label from a random Christian band from Florida. That was honestly fully attributed to just [acknowledging] this is above and outside of our control. This is a literal blessing from God, for whatever reason, and the only way we can repay that debt is to make the most excellent record possible and the most meaningful and influential record possible."
"It was a movement. People connected with the honesty. To not stop crossing that stream from having a movement based on vibe, heart, passion and connection and utter intentional refute for everything around us ..."
"Underoath isn’t a person. It’s this existential movement that started and—by the grace of God—affected a lot of people, and it deserves much more than to die or whither away a slow, insignificant death picking up festival money and old offers based off our old records’ backs."
Datos interesantes de Tim McTague
"own a merch company that I started with my friend Jay [Vilardi, guitarist for the Almost] and my friend Ryan from Tampa"
"I’m in a band with my brother-in-law, Nate Young, who is also the drummer of Anberlin. Our wives are sisters.... as well. That band is called Carrollhood"
"There’s so much stuff that Chris [Dudley] and I would geek out to and be like, “Dude, we should do just a bunch of EPs that are instrumental, like movie-score stuff.” But Underoath got too big."
At the end of the day, what are you the most proud of, with regards to Underoath?
The email that we got when we sold, 96 or 97,000 records the first week Define The Great Line [was released]. I thought that was the biggest achievement we’ve been able to do as a band that knew what they wanted to do. That was a victory for artists, and I thought that was a victory for the stewing rebellion against the music industry overall—the system, so to speak. Just to sit and look at the small crew at Tooth & Nail, and look at the other five dudes and be like, “Man, there’s not one concession on this entire record.” On top of that, [it was] the biggest first week the label’s ever had, that we’ve ever had, that potentially any non-CCM Christian band has ever had
El tour de despedida de Underoath comienza el 16 de enero 2013 y termina ese mismo 26 de enero en Tampa.
