[6] Jamie McLees' entrance into the band in late 2016 led to a distinctive musical shift into a sound much darker and heavier.
[7][9] On 31 October 2018, they opened for Neck Deep at their Halloween, sold-out, headline show in Manchester alongside Parting Gift and Strains.
[11] In March 2019, they opened for Blood Youth on their UK headline tour, alongside Palm Reader.
[18] The band were featured on Bring Me the Horizon's 24 minutes song "Underground Big {HEADFULOFHYENA}", as a part of their Music to Listen To... album, which was released on 27 December 2019.
[22] During this time, Park and Dutton departed from the band due to both having allegations of sexual abuse, reforming with a new line-up containing Paul Collins and Aidan Cooper formerly of MTXS.
On 9 July 2021, two weeks before the release of their debut album, Lotus Eater announced that they were disbanding, following three women's accusations of sexual and physical abuse from Collins being posted in social media.
Collins responded by describing the allegations as untrue and defamatory, and stating that he intended to take legal action.
[30] Metal Hammer described it as an "amalgam of death core, tech-metal and just outright, unfiltered naked aggression".
[31] As Daylight Fades was described by critics as metalcore[32] and post-rock[7] It made use of elements of technical metal and hardcore punk and was often melodic and emotional.