Yesterday (December 14th) Underoath played Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida, and shocked die-hard fans by bringing out a very special guest: the band’s original singer Dallas Taylor.
Underoath have spent much of 2024 on a 20th anniversary tour celebrating their band-redefining 2004 metalcore masterpiece They’re Only Chasing Safety, but last night they threw back even further. Drummer-vocalist Aaron Gillespie welcomed Taylor to the stage after an extended, heartfelt introduction and, with him, the band tore through “When the Sun Sleeps,” off 2002’s The Changing of Times.
As Underoath’s current frontman Spencer Chamberlain pointed out, this was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of moment: Underoath had never done this before, and it might never happen again.
Watch above and below.
Taylor, who now fronts Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, co-founded Underoath in 1997 and appeared on three albums, Act of Depression, Cries of the Past and The Changing of Times, before splitting in 2003. He reemerged the following year with his current band — though that group was forced into an extended hiatus after Taylor was involved in a serious ATV accident in 2016.
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster re-formed in 2022, playing shows and releasing two singles, 2022’s “Burn the Witches” and 2024’s “Thrush.”
As for Underoath, they’re set to close out 2024 with two more shows at Jannas Live, tonight and tomorrow night, then next year, they have a packed tour schedule through the fall. The band is also expected to release a new album in 2025 via MNRK Heavy.