Beloved Rock Band Makes 20th Anniversary Announcement
Underoath has a surprise for their OG fans.
Underoath, which was formed in 1997 in Tampa, took to social media on Monday to announce a surprise mural and art event taking place this Saturday evening at the Rialto Theatre in Tampa, Florida, to honor and celebrate 20 years of their fifth studio album, Define The Great Line.
"You're cordially invited to attend a mural and art event in recognition of the 20th anniversary of Define The Great Line," the official statement read. "The evening will include an exclusive, one-of-a-kind mural installation created by Underoath, a gallery of memorabilia pulled from the Define The Great Line era and first access to purchase new DTGL merch..."
Tickets are free, but space is limited, and a standby line is expected to accommodate overflow. Special merch like a limited event T-shirt will be available for purchase, and complimentary speciality bourbon cocktails will be served.
"What this album has meant to us, and so many others, over the past 20 years is hard to quantify," Underoath's keyboard player, Christopher Dudley, shared in a statement to HM Magazine. "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."
In addition to the art show, Underoath will be celebrating Define The Great Line on the road this fall. Announced just last week, the special anniversary tour will kick off in St. Louis on Nov. 5, then wrap up at the band's hometown of Tampa on Dec. 18. Additional stops include Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Denver, Chicago, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, New York City, Houston and more. Tickets went on sale last week and are available on Underoath's official website.
"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," Dudley continued.
Underoath was originally founded by Dallas Taylor, Luke Morton and Aaron Gillespie as a Christian group, but they have since distanced themselves from the religion and started branding themselves as a metalcore and hard rock band. The lineup has changed multiple times during its early years, but now still includes Gillespie, along with Dudley, Timothy McTague, Grant Brandell and Spencer Chamberlain. As a band for 30 years, Underoath has released 12 studio albums, with their most recent being This Place After This One in 2025.
Define the Great Line, released on June 20, 2006, was the album that shot Underoath into the mainstream. The record, which had 11 tracks and includes their hit song "Writing On The Walls," peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, which became the highest charting Christian release on that chart since 1997. In addition, it was certified gold in the United States by the RIAA, and "Writing on the Walls" was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the 2007 Grammy Awards.
Compared to They're Only Chasing Safety, their previous album before DTGL, Chamberlain told Chorus.fm that they didn't intentionally try to change styles between the two.
"We just wanted [to] play what we enjoyed playing, and that's what came out this time. It was not really a conscious effort; the only effort was to not put a limitation on it by saying this or that doesn't fit who we are. That shouldn't be a part of anything creative. We just wanted to do anything we wanted to do and that's what we did," Chamberlain said. "[There were] a lot of things that we did on the last record that we were unhappy with. We knew that those were things we would not do again and that was really the only direction we had."
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Fans can celebrate the 20th anniversary of Define The Great Line at their upcoming tour or the mural and art show this Saturday. Tickets for the art show can be found here.
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This story was originally published June 15, 2026 at 11:46 AM.