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Underoath

Disciplines:
rock music/metalcore
rock music/post-hardcore
rock music/christian rock
rock music/alternative music

Summary

American Christian metalcore band from Tampa, Florida — whose They're Only Chasing Safety and Define the Great Line became among the best-selling metalcore albums — and who broke up and reformed multiple times.

Core Contribution

Helped establish the commercial viability of Christian metalcore — combining heavy music with spiritual themes in a way that reached both secular and Christian audiences — and influenced a generation of post-hardcore and metalcore musicians.

Historical Influences

Hopesfall Dead Poetic At the Drive-In

Intellectual Lineage

Christian RockMetalcorePost-HardcoreTampa Music Scene

Contemporaries & Peers

Hawthorne HeightsSaosinSilverstein

Minds Influenced

Metalcore genre Christian alternative music Post-hardcore community

Intellectual Posterity

They're Only Chasing SafetyChristian metalcore

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