CCM:  So how has your own role in the band changed in the last several years?

Chris:  I think that everyone’s role has changed simply because we started when we were 15 or 16-years-old. Now we’re in our late 20s, so we’re all changing as people. We all communicate differently, and we’re just different people than we were back then. I’m realizing more and more now what God wants for me and how He wants me to live my life.

CCM:  With Aaron’s success in The Almost, has that created any kind of tension at all? How do you handle that?

Chris:  There’s not a whole lot of thought that goes into it because Underoath is the first priority, and if there’s some leftover time, then Aaron can do The Almost stuff. That’s the way the band wanted it, and that’s the way Aaron wanted it. I mean, if it weren’t that way, maybe there would be some sort of tension there. But we just figure out Underoath’s schedule, and if there’s a month off, Aaron says he wants to go play some Almost shows. And it’s his time, so he can do what he wants with it.  [Laughs]

CCM:  Do you have a side project of your own?

Chris:  I do have one, but it’s slow coming [for] me. The singer for the band Every Time I Die and I are doing an electronic singing kind of thing. We’ve been working on it for a while, but when we were in the studio, all of our energy was focused on this project. But I’m ready to pick up the project since we’re done writing for Underoath. I’m pretty stoked about it. We don’t have a lot going on right now with it, but we have one song that’s done.

CCM:  You guys have a fall tour planned around the new album, right?

Chris:  Yeah, we’re going out with Saosin and The Devil Wears Prada. Then we’re breaking up the openers into two weeks apiece. The first two weeks will be P.O.S.—a rapper from Minneapolis that we’ve done shows with before. The second two weeks [will be] Personnel, which is Kenny [Vasoli] from The Starting Line—it’s his solo project. I just picked up the new record, and it’s blowing my mind. The last two weeks will be The Famine from Texas, some friends of ours that are really good.

CCM:  Any parting shots?

Chris:  A huge thanks to whoever is reading this interview for taking the time out!

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**This interview first published on September 16, 2008.