Underoath have been teasing a new album for a potential 2025 release via MNRK Heavy. The metalcore outfit have now unveiled a self-directed video for their new song, “Survivor’s Guilt.” The band, along with their social media content director Jacob Moniz, filmed and edited the video in under 48 hours while on tour.
The group’s Spencer Chamberlain comments:
“I feel this heavy guilt about making it out alive when so many of my friends didn’t. There have been many times during my recovery when I’ve felt guilty, and that’s a mindfuck in itself, but it’s a real feeling. The opening line explains it pretty bluntly. I’ve been off drugs for 7 years, and I’ve lost 8 friends in 2023 alone to the same demon I was entangled with. It’s a heavy feeling to bear because it’s not like you’re better than anyone else out there—you literally just got lucky. I got my shit together before it was too late and I’m grateful for every single day I wake up now, especially because there was a time when I wasn’t sure I would.
The song was really fun to work on. The chorus came from the first idea I threw out there. I love when a song has such a powerful feel to the music that the vocals come out completely naturally. It made the sad heaviness feel even more intense. We’ve also never had a song with this type of swing to it, which is hard to pull off without it feeling cheesy, but I love the way this one hits. I could probably say this about every song on the record, but this is one of my favorite Underoath songs ever.”
On the video, Timothy McTague adds:
“We had the idea to shoot a music video for ‘Survivors Guilt,’ as we really think the song is special and it needed a proper visual representation to accompany it. We are on the longest tour of our lives and had no time before we left, so we decided to shoot one ourselves with our content creator, Jacob Moniz. We spent the first few weeks of tour talking out ideas, and flew into Denver early on our day off and just went for it. We had a plan, but much like a song, you have an idea and if you let the project speak back to you and let it in the driver’s seat, magic happens. Some ideas we had came out better than we thought, other ideas morphed into shots we didn’t know we could capture. We started shooting at 5:30 PM on Wednesday and had the final cut before our show on Friday. I’m beyond impressed by the band and how we all dug in and sacrificed long hours to pull this off and I’m probably more proud of this video than anything we have done in years.”
Watch the clip below:
Remaining dates for They’re Only Chasing Safety 20th Anniversary tour:
10/19 Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young
10/20 Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young
10/21 Ventura, CA @ Ventura Theater
10/22 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
10/23 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
10/25 Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
10/26 Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
10/27 San Diego, CA @ SOMA
10/28 Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee
10/30 Dallas, TX @ Southside Music Hall
11/18 Austin, TX @ Stubbs
11/19 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
11/20 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
11/22 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
11/23 Cincinnati, OH @ Megcorp
11/24 Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
11/26 Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom
11/27 Green Bay, WI @ Epic Center
11/29 Grand Rapids, MI @ 20 Monroe
11/30 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
12/01 Toronto, ON @ History
12/03 Buffalo, NY @ Riverworks
12/04 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
12/06 Stroudsburg, PA @ The Sherman Theater
12/08 Richmond, VA @ The National
12/09 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
12/10 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
12/12 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
12/13 Tampa, FL @ Jannus Landing
12/14 Tampa, FL @ Jannus Landing
12/15 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
12/16 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
Tickets are available at this location.
