The Untold have always operated with quiet ambition. Since emerging from Chicago's heavy music underground, the band has built their identity around emotional sincerity delivered through tightly constructed songs. They are not a band chasing extremity for its own sake, nor content to coast on technical proficiency alone. Their 2025 EP Thunder and Water: Act Two deepened their reputation within progressive metal circles, drawing listeners who gravitate toward the space where melody and weight coexist. With the new single "Of Nothing," released just yesterday, the band continues their prolific 2026 run following "Castaway" earlier in the year, and the trajectory feels purposeful. This is a band with somewhere specific to go."Of Nothing" opens in a place of stillness. A measured guitar figure introduces the track without urgency, setting a tone that the rest of the song inhabits comfortably. Where some of the band's earlier work leaned into dense, layered arrangements, this single takes a different approach, one that favors space and breath over density. The opening passage unfolds gradually, allowing the listener to settle into the track's atmosphere before the full arrangement arrives.
There is a patience to it that feels characteristic of where The Untold are at this point in their development. When vocalist Luke Dupuis enters, the temperature of the track shifts. His clean register is warm in the mid-range, carrying a slight edge that hints at the harsher voice available to him without reaching for it. On "Of Nothing," he stays largely in that melodic lane, shading his delivery with a quieter intensity that suits the material. The lyrics appear to move through themes of absence and aftermath, not the kind that arrive suddenly, but the kind that accumulate over time. The title carries that same quality: not a declaration, but a slow arrival at something true. The band's structural instincts are present throughout. The track's mid-section opens up in a way that feels like a natural exhale after the tension of the verses, with a guitar melody that sits in the foreground clearly and without ornamentation. The rhythm section moves through the track with purpose, holding the arrangement together without drawing the eye. Bass and drums occupy their space fully and consistently, giving the song a stable center around which the melodic elements can move.
The production reflects the tone of the material. The overall sound is clear and balanced, with a low end that registers without overwhelming the detail in the mid-range. Individual elements are given room to be heard on their own terms, with guitars, vocals, and the rhythm section all coexisting without crowding each other. The mix has a certain openness to it that suits a track called "Of Nothing," where what is absent is as much a part of the texture as what is present, and if you're a fan of Caligula's Horse, Periphery, Protest the Hero, or Fair to Midland, you'll see how much of an influence all of those bands have on them. This single sits comfortably within the lineage The Untold have established. Listeners who came to the band through Thunder and Water: Act Two will find familiar touchstones in the dynamic between clean and heavier elements, the emphasis on melody as the primary vehicle for the song's emotional content, and the sense that the arrangement exists to serve the song rather than to demonstrate what the band is capable of. At the same time, "Of Nothing" has its own character. It occupies a quieter register than some of what came before, and it seems content to stay there.
The broader context of the band's 2026 output is worth noting. Two singles released within months of each other, each approaching the band's sound from a slightly different angle, suggest an active creative period. "Castaway" and "Of Nothing" are not identical statements; they share a sensibility but explore it differently, which points to a band moving through material with energy and intention rather than repeating a formula. Whether these singles are building toward a larger project remains to be announced, but the pattern of release gives the impression of momentum. The Untold have always been a band that rewards close listening. "Of Nothing" continues that tradition, a track that reveals more with repeated plays, where the details of the arrangement and the nuances of Dupuis's vocal delivery become more apparent over time. It is the kind of song that doesn't announce itself loudly but settles in and stays. For a band whose name is built around the idea of stories waiting to be told, "Of Nothing" suggests there is still quite a lot left to say.
Go give "Of Nothing" a spin now!
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