Define the Great Line leaked

An unfinished version of the album was leaked onto BitTorrent websites and P2P services months before the release date. Drummer Aaron Gillespie, during the short time after the recording of Define the Great Line , recorded the debut album for his side-project The Almost , which was produced by Seattle producer Aaron Sprinkle and was released April 3, 2007. In April 2006, the band had been courted by several major record labels, instead re-signing with Tooth & Nail Records because they felt that major labels “don’t get heavy bands” and “we don’t really agree with a lot of the business practices major labels employ sometimes.” On April 21, Underoath flew to Sweden to work with Popcore Films, to create music videos for “In Regards to Myself” and “Writing on the Walls”; the latter was chosen as the lead single for the album and was later nominated for the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video . Dudley commented that the videos were “high-energy videos and more intricate than any video we’ve ever done.”