Underoath to Tour for 20th Anniversary of ‘Define the Great Line’

Last month Underoath announced they’d play their 2006 album Define the Great Line in full at Furnace Fest , and now they’ve revealed a full 20th anniversary tour for the album. August Burns Red, Atreyu, As Cities Burn , and Emery open the shows, varying by date, and Chris Dudley says, “What this album has meant to us, and so many others, over the past 20 years is hard to quantify. It gave us permission to be ourselves. It sent us around the world. It gave people the freedom to say (and scream) the things out loud they had buried deep. It will outlive us. We still play these songs on stage 20 years later and get those chills. The opportunity to devote an entire tour to presenting this album in the best way it ever has been, alongside friends we’ve had since before it was released, is going to be bucket list material for us.”

The shows begin on November 5 in St. Louis and run through December, with a few dates still TBA, and an NYC show at Brooklyn Paramount on December 8 with August Burns Red, Atreyu, and Emery. Tickets to all dates go on sale Friday, June 12 at 10 AM local, with various presales starting Tuesday, June 9 at 12 PM local.

We named Define the Great Line one of 15 seminal albums from metalcore’s second wave (2000-2010) , and Andrew wrote:

> Underoath scored one of melodic metalcore’s biggest mainstream breakthroughs with 2004’s They’re Only Chasing Safety — their fourth album and first with lead screamer Spencer Chamberlain (who replaced Dallas Taylor, who went on to front the Southern rock-tinged metalcore band Maylene and the Sons of Disaster) — but it was that album’s darker, heavier, more experimental followup that found Underoath at their creative peak. Outside of lead single “Writing on the Walls,” almost nothing on Define the Great Line scans as “radio-friendly.” Spencer had really settled into his role as frontman for this album, and he brought his own vocal and lyrical style to the band rather than trying to fill the shoes of Dallas Taylor, who the previous album had at least partially been written with. His screams were more guttural on this record, and his lyricism grappled with faith in a way that was extremely personal and never felt like stereotypical Christian metalcore. The depth in the lyricism was matched by a wide range of musical influences, which included bone-crushing metalcore, atmospheric post-metal, industrial interludes, and more. In place of usual producer James Paul Wisner was Killswitch Engage’s Adam Dutkiewicz and The Chariot collaborator Matt Goldman, and that new team helped Underoath achieve the more cavernous sound that these songs demanded. It was an album that made you forget everything you thought you knew about Underoath, elevated them above the endless sea of “scene” bands, and set the tone for the second and best chapter of their career.

Stream it below.

UNDEROATH: 2026 TOUR DATES

June 9 – Savannah, GA Victory North *

June 10 – Greenville, SC The Radio Room *

June 11 – Greensboro, NC Hangar 1819 *

June 13 – Washington, D.C. Vans Warped Tour

June 14 – Richmond, VA The Canal Club *

June 15 – Asheville, NC Eulogy *

July 13 – Gainesville, FL The Wooly *

July 14 – Pensacola, FL Vinyl Music Hall *

July 15 – Baton Rouge, LA Chelsea’s Live *

July 17 – San Antonio, TX Paper Tiger *

July 18 – Corpus Christi, TX House of Rock *

July 20 – Lubbock, TX Jake’s Sports Cafe *

July 22 – El Paso, TX Lowbrow Palace *

July 23 – Tucson, AZ 191 Toole *

July 25 – Long Beach, CA Vans Warped Tour

July 27 – Flagstaff, AZ Hotel Monte Vista *

July 28 – Albuquerque, NM Launchpad *

July 29 – Roswell, NM The Liberty *

July 31 – Tulsa, OK The Vanguard *

August 1 – Springfield, MO The Venue on Sunset *

August 2 – Memphis, TN 1884 Lounge *

August 14 – Toronto, ON RBC Amphitheatre #

August 15 – Toronto, ON RBC Amphitheatre #

September 12-13 – Mexico City, MEX Vans Warped Tour

September 20 – Louisville, KY Louder Than Life Festival

September 25 – Pittsburgh, PA Four Chord Music Festival

October 2 – Sacramento, CA Aftershock Festival

October 10-11 – Birmingham, AL Furnace Festival

October 24 – Fort Worth, TX Sick New World Festival

November 5 – St. Louis, MO The Pageant %^@

November 6 – Oklahoma City, MO The Criterion %^@

November 7 – Albuquerque, NM Revel Entertainment Center %^@

November 9 – Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre %^@

November 10 – San Diego, CA SOMA %^@

November 12 – Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl %^@

November 13 – TBA

November 14 – San Francisco, CA The Masonic %^@

November 16 – Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre %^@

November 17 – Vancouver, BC PNE Forum %^@

November 19 – Sa lt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center %^@

November 21 – Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium %^@

November 23 – Minneapolis, MN The Armory %^@

November 24 – Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom %^@

November 25 – Grand Rapids, MI GLC Live at 20 Monroe %^@

November 27 – TBA

November 28 – Montreal, QC MTELUS %+

November 29 – Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway %^+

December 1 – Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore %^+

December 3 – Lancaster, PA Freedom Hall %^+

December 4 – Cincinnati, OH The Andrew J Brady Music Center %^+

December 5 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre %^

December 6 – Detroit, MI The Fillmore %^+

December 8 – Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount %^+

December 11 – Raleigh, NC The Ritz %^+

December 12 – Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues %^+

December 13 – TBA

December 15 – Austin, TX ACL Live at the Moody Theater %^+

December 16 – Houston, TX Bayou Music Center %^+

December 18 – Tampa, FL Yuengling Center %^+

* with Held.

# with Alexisonfire

% with August Burns Red

^ with Atreyu

@ with As Cities Burn

+ with Emery

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/underoath-announce-define-the-great-line-20th-anniversary-tour/)._