Voyeurist
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Voyeurist
Voyeurist is the ninth studio album by American rock band Underoath, released on January 14, 2022 via Fearless Records, after a three-month pushback due to vinyl production delays. It is their first album in four years following Erase Me (2018), marking the longest gap between two studio albums in the band's career without breaking up. -Wikipedia
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Kerrang!
Entirely self-produced by the band for the first time, Voyeurist is arguably the most cohesive and coherent record of Underøath’s career to date. It’s an album that asks profound questions about the meaning of life and death, about the nature and purpose of existence (and non/un-existence) and about the role that faith and religion play in our lives – all to some of the most punishingly heavy music you’ll hear this year. It doesn’t offer any solutions, but that itself is answer enough.
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Sputnik Music
We've heard them play the hits enough for a lifetime, and a scattered few moments on Voyeurist suggest these digital ghosts might still find newer graves to haunt.
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Medium
A brooding and ambitious addition to the metalcore band’s discography.
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Distorted Sound Magazine
UNDEROATH claim that this is their most ambitious and diverse album to date. If anything that is an understatement. Voyeurist is their defining moment, their seminal hors d’oeuvre that will not only re-establish them as one of the most prolific bands on the modern circuit, but will be revered for its artistic merit. Let those eyebrows be raised and let the critics pull it apart, this album is a work of art and those that can learn to appreciate it will bask in its spellbinding colour.
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Ultimate Guitar
"Voyeurist" isn't an absolutely revolutionary record, but it does provide the listener with enough interesting and compelling music to keep them hooked, catchy enough melodies to keep the songs stuck in your head for a while, and decent enough musicianship and production skills to garner them some respect and praise. Maybe it's a little too middle-of-the-road to be the PERFECT metalcore album to kick off 2022, but it's certainly decent enough to deserve at least a second spin.
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Richer Sounds Blog
The comfort and warmth shorn and burnt away by vocal fire and tearing guitars – a perfect way to end this excellent example of what the band can do when unchained.
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New Transcendence
This album seeks to remind fans why they loved them in the first place and why there will never be another Underoath.
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Loud
Ambitious, intricate and meaningful, Voyeurist is Underoath at their best.
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Noizze
If any record speaks to our collective and personal disorientation amidst the pandemic, it’s Voyeurist. It has a few missed opportunities, but its production and energy deliver concussive and resonant emotional darkness in an intimate way that few records have managed in the past few years. It’s a true display of understanding and connection from a band that has upheld a status of maturity and great relevance throughout their career, and Voyeurist is a prime example of why.
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Boolin Tunes
While there are still some teething issues with this new sound, those who showed the patience to stick with the group after Erase Me will be rewarded with what Voyeurist has to offer up.
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