Current lead singer of The Almost and touring drummer for Paramore, Aaron Gillespie, spent over 10 years as a vocalist and drummer for metalcore band UnderOath. At the moment he is gearing up to release his second worship album Grace Through the Wandering but took some time to reflect back on his years with the band he helped found.

Last year, longtime keyboard player for the band, Chris Dudley, spoke to the Bad Christian Podcast about some of the underlying issues toward the end of UnderOath. He mentioned that while he was still a Believer, some of the other members of the band no longer identified as Christians. This was also something reflected in the music as it became more vague.

When Gillespie was asked if those comments were true he said, "I would agree with that," but admitted that is was not the reason why he left.

"That's what happened with that band, but that's not why I left. It was just time for me for many many many reasons," he said. "That's a whole other conversation."

He then shared his thoughts on the band "losing their religion" so to speak. "I think that definitely did happen, and I don't think that's wrong necessarily. I think a lot of conservative Christians take something that happens that is out of the realm of spirituality and turn it into something evil," Gillespie said. "While that band started as a Christian band, it started good, it evolved into something different, and I think that's ok. The members are still who they were."

"If people were to be buying hookers and acting crazy, then you got an issue. People are still people."

The drummer then related what happened with UnderOath to what often happens with people of faith in their twenties when they begin to question things. He said "people start really becoming more intellectual then they'll ever be and then they ever were." Gillespie said people start questioning different things in their lives because that age, "you start wanting to read stuff and you start wanting to be in that whole thing."

Gillespie was on The Voice and Verse Podcast last year and said he would would be down to do a They're Only Chasing Safety 10 year anniversary tour. That time has passed, but in 2016 their album Define the Great Line will be ten. When asked if he would be up for it, "Yeah, I don't know. I definitely would anytime. I mean I have a pretty crazy schedule, but I would make it work."

His sentiment for the original lineup of death/black metal UnderOath with Dallas Taylor however, was a bit different. "I don't know if I would do that."

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Read part one were Aaron Gillespie talks about his upcoming album, and his thoughts on worship here.

Grace Through the Wandering comes out on February 3, and the first single "Praise Him" is already making waves with listeners.

Watch the lyric video put out by BEC Records below: