Anberlin, after five long years, have announced that they will be returning for a U. The news comes as a surprise, and to much delight of Anberlin fans, as the band announced their final album, Lowborn , and farewell tour back in However, Anberlin started getting fans excited back in July of when they posted a photo on Instagram and updated their profile photo on Facebook.
Things then moved quickly, as they announced a one-off show support Underoath on December 14th, as Underoath was performing their first headlining arena show. We never played churches. I don't remember ever going on tour with an overtly religious band outside of Switchfoot and Relient K, even though I don't think they would call themselves overtly religious either.
We definitely stayed true to that. For me, it's like a piece of artwork. I wanted everybody, no matter what faith or creed or color or race or religion, to be able to look at the artwork and say, 'This is what I see. This is what I experience. Life experience became important to Christian and his bandmates. Stepping away from the group ultimately became a necessity for everyone.
The Anberlin frontman was struggling with lyrics near the end of their tenure. Repeated songs about life on the road were not cutting it. He recalls Bob Dylan saying in his mid-thirties that all his best songs were behind him. It always reminds me of that movie Groundhog Day. I felt that's what my life had become.
I lived vicariously through the other family members and through friends who got to experience things like, for better or worse, funerals and graduations and weddings and divorce and life and all these things.
I felt like life is just passing me by and I'm not there to experience it. The Florida quintet hit their commercial and artistic apex in with their fifth album Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place , a Billboard top 10 release that deftly married the freneticism of mainstream emo with the melodiousness of '80s rock.
Their seventh and last album Lowborn in continued their evolution with some more contemplative moments and songs that spanned the simmering romanticism of "Stranger Ways" through the Nine Inch Nails-like aggression of "Dissenter.
Working in ministry has been fulfilling for Christian and imbued him with a new outlook on his fans. More like, how many people showed up to the show? It's nothing new, but I didn't realize it on this grand scale, like this person has just lost their job.
There's a guy that I work with right now and both his father and his father-in-law are dying of cancer. Within a ministry, you can be there for people, even if it's something so simple as going to the hospital to pray with them or provide for their family or bring food or whatever the case might be.
When I play these Anberlin shows these people mean something. Whether we don't share the same space, whether they never step foot into a church, it doesn't mean I should care any less about their lives and their well-being and who they are. This is a deeper sense of caring. He also cares deeply about his bandmates, and he does not call this tour a reunion.
Metalcore group Underoath promised something special for their biggest-ever hometown show, a Dec. The Grammy-nominated rockers have recruited their friends Anberlin , a beloved Winter Haven emo group that hasn't played together since , to join the roster of openers for the show.
Fellow Tampa natives. It just feels right. This is special to us. Long time friends. You can get ticketing information for all dates via their website. Tickets for the U. House of Blues June 18 - Sacramento, Calif. Ace of Spades June 20 - Seattle, Wash.
The Truman June 28 - Minneapolis, Minn.
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