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Cries of the Past is the second studio album by Underoath, released on July 4, 2000, through Takehold Records.[6] Only 3,000 copies of the album were pressed and, like Act of Depression, it was out of print for years. The album is the last to feature guitarist Corey Steger and the first to include keyboardist Christopher Dudley. Alongside their debut album, this album was reissued through Solid State Records on August 20, 2013.[7]

Cries of the Past
Studio album by Underoath
Released	July 4, 2000
Recorded	2000
Studio	Wisner Productions, Davie, Florida
Genre	Metalcore[1] death metal[2] black metal[3]
Length	42:08
Label	Takehold
Producer	James Paul Wisner
Underoath chronology
Act of Depression (1999) Cries of the Past (2000) The Changing of Times (2002)
Reissue cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Alternative Press	[1]
Chronicles of Chaos	9.5/10[3]
HM Magazine	*[4]
Jesus Freak Hideout	[5]

This is the band's last album to be released through Takehold Records, as the label was bought by Solid State.

Musical content and style

The second and third song are out of order from the list on the jacket, with "Giving Up Hurts the Most" as the actual second track, while "Walking Away" is the third. The latter is also the shortest song of the album, but with a length of 7:36, with one of the most notorious things about the album being its length; in a time length of 42:08, there are only five songs, all longer than any of the songs the band would make in subsequent albums. The song "And I Dreamt of You" is Underoath's longest recorded song, clocking in at 11 minutes and 24 seconds.

Being the first album to feature Christopher Dudley, it is the first Underoath album to include keyboard effects. The album acquires a similar death metal sound to Act of Depression; however, it notably features a black metal influence.[4][8]

Reception

Cries of the Past has received mostly positive reviews.

Alex Cantwell of Chronicles of Chaos praised the band's ability to mix hardcore punk and black metal together, saying the album is "Cradle of Filth meets Hatebreed."[3] Sherwin Frias of Jesus Freak Hideout also praised the album, giving it a perfect 5/5. Frias praised the band's musicianship, especially the keyboard work done by Chris Dudley, as well as Dallas Taylor's vocals.[5]

Casey Boland of Alternative Press gave the album a more mixed review. Boland praised the album's better production over the debut Act of Depression and Dudley's performance, stating "Dudley’s contributions add just enough sonic coloring to make the songs somewhat unique." Boland criticized the length of the songs, stating that "And I Dreamt of You" could have been shorter or split into several different songs and said the songs "feel like patchworks of riffs sewn haphazardly together into an ugly quilt of disjointed patterns."[1]

The album's title track would later appear on the band's 2012 compilation album Anthology: 1999–2013.

Track listing

Personnel

Underoath

• Dallas Taylor – lead vocals
• Corey Steger – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Octavio Fernandez – rhythm guitar
• Christopher Dudley – keyboards
• Matt Clark – bass guitar
• Aaron Gillespie – drums

Production

• James Paul Wisner – producer

References

На других языках

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[es] Cries of the Past

Cries of the Past (En español: Gritos del Pasado) es un álbum de Unblack Metal/Death Metal escrito y lanzado por la banda Underoath. Es el segundo álbum de la banda. Fue lanzado el 4 de julio de 2000 bajo el sello Takehold Records. El álbum tuvo solamente 3000 copias y actualmente está fuera de impresión. La aparición de Christopher Dudley en los teclados le dio una base sinfónica al grupo, mientras que las guitarras, a diferencia de su primer disco, son más melódicas y técnicas sin dejar el death metal del disco anterior, dando como resultado un álbum más relacionado al metal extremo que al hardcore, esto se denota en el uso más frecuente de blast beats extremos y potentes que en el disco anterior donde Gillespie solo hacia uso de este estilo de ritmos en pequeñas y cortas partes de las canciones. En cuanto a los temas, hay un cambio desde las letras cristianas del disco anterior a unas más personales que giran en torno al accidente de una mujer, su muerte y su pérdida.

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