Underoath w/ The Red Chord, Near Fatal Fall Thu., July 31.
Floridian sextet Underoath came to wide renown with 2006’s chart-topping Define the Great Line and their adeptness for busy arrangements that toss pop-punk hooks and thrash squalls into the same pit with reckless abandon. The fact that they do it all for Jesus only makes them the kid-tested, mother-approved Kix cereal of metal bands; they keep the aggression and physicality, but swapping nihilism for more hopeful themes. But that’s not to say that Underoath’s world is all sunshine and smiles. “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures,” the first single from the forthcoming Lost in the Sound of Separation, is a volatile affair that makes real its sense of desperation. The song launches out of the gates, hurling itself upwards into a disorienting fury of rhythmic pitches that dive and lunge around each other, until the listener is totally enveloped in the dizzying fray. Boston’s The Red Chord brings a similar knack for unpredictable song composition in its staggeringly technical brand of death metal. —Bryan Reed$19 ($16 adv.), www.underoath777.com.
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