Pittsburgh metal/hardcore band Code Orange has announced 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 Jami Morgan and Eric ‘Shade’ Balderose, is due February 17th via Blue Grape Music and closes a chapter of the band that saw a Grammy Nomination, groundbreaking live-stream performances in the midst of the pandemic, tours with Slipknot, $UICDEBOY$ 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 of the band, 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 Dantanian storyline 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.