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The Devil Wears Prada
Plagues
Rise CD
One word describes Plagues: scathing.
The Devil Wears Prada definitely covers a lot of ground and heavy hitting methods on their sophomore release Plagues. Seamlessly shifting from a ravenous blend of metal and hardcore, melodic rock, and knuckle bruising breakdowns, The Devil does a fine job of mixing their sound up. Like a mixed martial arts fighter, this band can attack with a number of different styles, and they love to weave a keyboard synth chokehold around every song. Yeah, the keyboardist adds his epic death metal flourishes any chance he gets and it definitely produces a dramatic effect throughout all ten tracks.
Mike Hranica and guitarist Jeremy DePoyster tag team on vocal duties, switching up their delivery with soaring melodic singing, low guttural groans, and high pitched screams…and it certainly keeps things interesting. Plagues contain a whole hell of a lot of potency and uniqueness. The double-bass drum blast breakdown at the end of “HTML Rulez D00D” rattled my teeth and the constant sharp metal riffage held my ear’s attention through out the entire album.
Chiodos vocalist Craig Owens lends his voice to the ridiculously titled, yet rocking “You Can’t Spell Crap Without a C.” Plagues is a highly enjoyable metal-meets-hardcore release that never becomes monotonous or boring. The Devil Wears Prada isn’t shy about their love for the big man upstairs, which might rub some people the wrong way: “Pray to the heavens / With whatever it takes / I wish to shine this light back upon you.”* So WWJD? Probably throw up a few Dio inspired mano cornuta devil hands while rocking out to Plagues.
Unfortunately I would be a hypocrite if I kept pumping my fists to this Jesus inspired metal onslaught. If you’re down with G-O-D and love exciting metal, then check this group out. Everyone else, keep spinning those old Creation Is Crucifixion albums.
by Fake Train
*Taken from “Number Three, Never Forget”
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