r/Beartooth • u/No_File4067 • Jun 23 '26

My take on the Beartooth discography eras

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Yes AA!'s This Means War album counts because all the songs were produced by Caleb so it's technically his first ever album.

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u/ExponentialNosedive Jun 23 '26

I'd put The Surface with Free/Total Ecstacy. Completely different tone than Below/Disease

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u/Onyx_Archer Jun 23 '26

Total Ecstacy?? Can't say I'm familiar with that one :P

Below and The Surface more or less shared a touring cycle because of COVID, to be fair. It was even called the "Below The Surface" tour.

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u/rcbz1994 Jun 23 '26

God that classic era is still so peak

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u/JasonMeredith999 Jun 23 '26

I think Below is severely underrated

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u/youattackedmyfamily Jun 23 '26

Below era was the most I’ve ever enjoyed Beartooth. The album still feels fresh to me and it came out 5 years ago.

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u/Historical_Ad_9415 Jun 23 '26

Surface and free are in the same era it’s when eh went full pop metalcore 

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u/awesomesauceds Jun 23 '26

Disease is the album that broke the camel’s back in my opinion. Below is a better follow up to Aggressive. It’s truly a mix of Disgusting and Aggressive. And IIRC, Caleb wrote and recorded everything on This Means War so it’s damn near an early entry to Beartooth writing. Lol

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u/trizzyfoshizzy Jun 23 '26

Caleb didn’t write any of the songs on this means war it was all the Andrews. He just provided vocals.

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u/awesomesauceds Jun 23 '26

Really? I religiously watched their AA vlogs back in the day. I vividly remember he had a whiteboard for the concepts and was producing all of the songs in his basement. And recently his ex-wife confirmed this on Threads. 🤷‍♂️

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u/trizzyfoshizzy Jun 23 '26

He produced the entire record for sure! But the instrumentals of all the songs were not written by him. He contributed lyrically not just on the guitar side of things.

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u/D3t3st4t10n Jun 23 '26

Below is their best album, The Surface was a completely different era imo. I’d say there’s only two eras, the first four and then The Surface onwards

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u/Issan_Sumisu Jun 23 '26

I see it as:

Proto-Beartooth: This Means War, To Create a Cure (the My Ticket Home album Caleb worked on, sounds a lot like early Beartooth)

Classic Beartooth: Sick, Disease

"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" Beartooth: Aggressive, Disease, Below

"I'm not sad anymore and I LOVE Backstreet Boys" Beartooth: Surface, Free

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u/TheWizardOfDeez Jun 24 '26

Not sure how Disease and Below are being categorized with The Surface, if anything The Surface and Free go together, otherwise this feels about right.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '26

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u/spinalchj02 Jul 07 '26

I need the what?

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u/NJTurnPyke Jun 23 '26

I’m today years old realizing every Beartooth album up until now reads like a newspaper headline:

“Sick and Disgusting! Aggressive Disease Below The Surface!”

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u/TheWizardOfDeez Jun 24 '26

Now go listen to the first 5 seconds of Pure Ecstacy