Photo: Tim Saccenti Pittsburgh boundary pushers CODE ORANGE have released What Is Really Underneath?, a companion album to 2020’s acclaimed Underneath. Part remix, part soundtrack What Is Really Underneath? contains elements of the 2020 album while digging deeper down into the Underneath universe with original unreleased companion pieces. The album, which was produced by the band’s own Jami Morgan and Eric ‘Shade’ Balderose, is out now via Blue Grape Music and closes a chapter of the band that saw a Grammy nomination, mid-pandemic ground-breaking live-stream performances, tours with Slipknot, $uicideboy$, and Korn, their Coachella debut, and more. Accompanying the album is a short film of the same name, a fourteen-minute, animated narrative that is scored by selections from the album. Helmed by Eric “Shade” Balderose, the film was created using Cinema 4D and Octant Render, taking more than 2000 hours over the course of four months. The film follows a storyline inspired by Dante’s Inferno as the “Mudman” (first introduced in the video for “The Mud” off their 2017 breakout album Forever) journeys Underneath to meet his maker in hopes that he will be cleansed of sin. Watch here or by clicking below. |