The Devil Wears Prada

Forming in 2005, The Devil Wears Prada has become one of the biggest Christian metalcore band and continues to grow more and more. To me, it seems like with all five albums and the one EP they've released, each one just gets better and better. Judging by their older music, such as the albums "Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord" and "Plagues", it didn't seem like they took the band too seriously because of the names of their songs like "Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over" and "You Can't Spell Crap Without "C"." It seemed like they were just trying too be funny, but the songs in my opinion were really good and and had a lot of meaning.

Later in their musical career they seemed to grow more mature as musicians. In 2009, TDWP released their third album entitled "With Roots Above and Branches Below," which has my personal favorite song "Assistant to the Regional Manager" on it. This album was definitely their best so far, having more of a "darker, heavier, and more epic" sound, says vocalist Mike Hranica (Wikipedia). Even though there were a few humorous song titles, the band's musicality really matured and they took a big step with the album. They definitely grew a huge fan base as they played the Vans Warped Tour ans went on multiple headlining tours.

In 2010, they released a five song EP entitled "Zombie," and every song had to do with a zombie apocalypse in some way, due to Hranica's strong interest on the subject (Wikipedia). Like in the song "Escape" it says, "As clumsy as these beast may be, their mass numbers make up for slow speeds," and in "Outnumbered" it says "like vultures of the sick, zombies outnumber the living." In my opinion, I thought this EP was freakin awesome. The band stated that it was the "fastest music they had ever written," and even compared it to Slayer and Hatebreed (Wikipedia). I completely agreed with that. The album was so brutal and fast and it was the first release that didn't have any humorous song titles.

I didn't start to like heavy metal until early 2012, and my friend tried to show me TDWP by getting me to listen to the fourth album "Dead Throne," but I really wasn't into that music at the time and I couldn't stand listening to it. Early 2012, I saw the Mayhem Festival lineup and saw that The Devil Wears Prada was on the bill. I'd only liked a few of the bands on the festival, so I decided to look some of them up, which is also where I discovered Whitechapel, which is now my favorite band. Fortunately when I went to Mayhem, I got to meet The Devil Wears Prada, but I only got to see them perform 2 songs because I was watching Anthrax. I still didn't listen to TDWP a lot, but they were definitely drifting their way into my music library. Now after listening to all their albums from before and getting to like the band more, I really like "Dead Throne" and thought it was their best album yet.

The band's latest album, "8:18", was in my opinion their best album yet. The heavy, yet melodic riffs were a perfect blend and the lyrics had so much meaning. When the album first came out, I became obsessed with it and couldn't stop listening to it. The Devil Wears Prada has became one of my top favorite band now and I listen to them all the time. I've played drums for a few years now, and ever since late last year, I've learned multiple songs by them including, "Born to Lose," and "Assistant to the Regional Manager." They're some of my favorite songs to play and I'm trying to learn even more songs by them.

I'd like to know what you think of The Devil Wears Prada, so leave comments of what you think!







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