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Christian music news: NOFX, Underoath, Rise Against No Longer 'Rumored' to Play Liskfest

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Remember what we told you about yesterday? How NOFX, Underoath and Rise Against are all going to be playing Liskfest at Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine on September 5? Yeah, scratch that.

Word came today from Costa Mesa-based Shout Public Relations--the same folks who yesterday broke the news that the three bands were "rumored" to be playing the event--that "NOFX, Rise Against and Underoath are not confirmed or rumored to be playing LISKFEST 2.0." (Well, they can't really control rumors, right?) Notice the wording, there, though: no one's saying that those bands aren't playing, just that it's not confirmed. The plot thickens!

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Christian music news: Underoath Perform Ambient Single "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear" And "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures" On Fuel TV's "

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UNDEROATH will perform “Too Bright To See, Too Loud to Hear”--their ambient and most-accessible single to date--as well as the epic and brutal track “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures” today, Thursday, July 30 on FUEL TV’s “The Daily Habit” at 9:00pm ET/PT and 12:00 AM ET/PT. Check out the group’s two-song performance again on Friday, July 31 at (12:00 AM ET/PT, 8:30 AM ET/PT and 3:00 PM ET/PT). For more information, visit: www.fuel.tv/TheDailyHabit.

The ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER heralded, "’Too Bright to See, Too Loud to Hear’" showed why the group has moved far ahead of its metal peers. Armed with soaring instrumentals you'd expect from someone like Explosions in the Sky, combined with epic gang vocals and hand claps, Underoath makes clear that this is not a typical band. Not only does it know how to headbang but this is also a group of acute musicians, and that talent is what stood out the most” (Jonathan Bautts11/16/08).

This TV performance comes in the midst of the acclaimed group’s summer-long main stage slot on the Vans Warped Tour. The 2009 trek marks the group’s sixth outing on the annual punk rock festival and their fourth run as a headlining act on the tour (see the full list of tour dates, cities and venues below). In his live review of the recent Cleveland show, Michael Gallucci noted of sextet:

“Underoath closed Warped down, one of two acts with 8 p.m. slots as the other stages tore down. They continue to have one of the more impressive stage shows, highlighted by keyboardist Chris Dudley who head-banged nearly the entire time, while switching between the keys and a pair of drums located nearby. The Christian metalcore act turn up the sonic heat, with blistering breaks, slashing guitars and frontman Spencer Chamberlain’s howling vocals.”

(CLEVELAND SCENE, Live Review, July 10, 2009)

On Sunday, September 6, UNDEROATH perform with 3OH3!, All American Rejects, Bad Religion, Katy Perry, NOFX, Rise Against and more in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre for the Vans Warped Tour 15th Anniversary Celebration. Performances from the event and behind-the-scenes footage will be a one-night-only event airing in more than 460 movie theaters across the U.S. on Thursday, September 17. Tickets to the Vans Warped Tour 15th Anniversary Celebration--in-theaters on September 17th--are available online at www.FathomEvents.com and at participating theaters.

UNDEROATH--whose last three albums have combined sales in excess of one million copies--released their fourth album LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION on Seattle indie Tooth & Nail/Solid State in 2008. The disc marked the top rock debut for the week and entered the Billboard Top 200 Album chart at #8, #1 on the Top Christian albums chart and #5 on the Top Digital albums chart, with over 9,476 digital downloads sold in its first week alone. UNDEROATH--lead vocalist SPENCER CHAMBERLAIN, guitarist TIM MCTAGUE, bassist GRANT BRANDELL, drummer AARON GILLESPIE, keyboardist CHRISTOPHER DUDLEY and guitarist JAMES SMITH--continue to garner new fans and widespread critical acclaim for LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION as well as their powerful live performances. Look for UNDEROATH to tour throughout 2009 and beyond.


Catch UNDEROATH on the road in the U.S. now:

Vans Warped Tour 2009 main stage:

Sun 7/5 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
Tue 7/7 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Wed 7/8 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
Wed 7/29 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Thu 7/30 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
Fri 7/31 Detroit, MI Comerica Park
Sat 8/1 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Sun 8/2 Minneapolis, MN Canterbury Park
Mon 8/3 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Tue 8/4 Kansas City, MO Sandstone Amphitheatre
Fri 8/7 Boise, ID Idaho Center Amphitheatre
Sat 8/8 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds
Sun 8/9 Denver, CO Invesco Field
Wed 8/12 Calgary, AB Race City Speedway
Fri 8/14 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium
Sat 8/15 Seattle, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
Sun 8/16 Portland, OR Washington County Fairgrounds
Wed 8/19 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
Thu 8/20 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Fri 8/21 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Sat 8/22 San Diego, CA Cricket Amphitheatre
Sun 8/23 Los Angeles, CA Home Depot Center

UNDEROATH on tour:
w/Taking Back Sunday
Fri 8/28 Wantagh, NY The Bay Stage @ Jones Beach
Rev Gen Music Fest
Fri 9/4 Frenchtown, NJ Revelation Farms
Vans Warped Tour 15th Anniversary Celebration Live performance:
Sun 9/6 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre
Vans Warped Tour 15th Anniversary Concert in-theater event:
Thu 9/17 Airing nationwide at participating theaters: www.FathomEvents.com.

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Christian music news: Underoath's music echoes its members' Christianity

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Strip away the doom-laden guitars, howl of vocals and chest-rattling bass, and you'll find God in Underoath.

"Good God, if your song leaves our lips, if your work leaves our hands, then we will be wanderers and vagabonds," you can make out Spencer Chamberlain singing in one of the quieter moments of the metal band's current album, "Lost in the Sound of Separation."

"I'm as Christian as you can be," says bassist Grant Brandell tracing his beliefs back to age 13. "It's definitely the foundation of our band. . . . It's not just an onstage thing."

Oh, if only it were that easy. Underoath, which plays Tuesday as part of the Warped Tour bill at Verizon Wireless Music Center, has emerged from Florida as one of the premier metal bands of the moment, dominating a genre of music that is frequently seen as anything but Christian. And the relentless touring, with so many temptations at hand, so many easy choices to be made, can test a man.

"Just because you're a Christian," Brandell says, "doesn't mean you can't go through things that are not ideal." Metal is a visceral experience. Brandell has witnessed shows get out of hand, with crowds pushing barricades, "people getting beat up, people going nuts, getting hurt. And offstage, all of the backstage antics."

Underoath members have toured alongside the likes of Slipknot, Mastodon, Disturbed and Dragonforce -- enough to test the mettle of this Christian metal band.

"You can take an art, like music, you can use it for any cause," Brandell says. "Metal definitely has an aggressive sound to it, it has an angry sound to it. Angry. Bad. Evil. At the same time, it's a powerful thing.

"We've had people come up and thank us, and we have people who think we're hypocrites. It's just how people perceive metal."

Underoath isn't immune to the volcanic nature of metal. In 2006, it was reportedly simmering with internal strife over, of all things, religious disagreements. That, and what the band at first denied but now concedes is true, that Chamberlain had a cocaine problem.

"He wasn't happy," Brandell says. "He obviously didn't want to be doing it."

In "Desperate Times Desperate Measures," Chamberlain sings of how "I've been crawling around in the dark for a while."

In time, Underoath has healed and fans have stuck with the band: "Lost in the Sound of Separation" debuted at No. 8 on Billboard magazine's Top 200 albums chart.

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