The Devil Wears Prada is a terrible movie and the name of a Christian metalcore band. What the hell is metal core? Who the hell cares? They have marketed themselves well in the Christian genre by seeming like the ole naughty evil metal and teasing Devil name drop in their group name, church-er kids can get their dose of rebellion while staying within the lines more or less.
“Dead Throne,” the The Devil Wears Prada album I am reviewing, was terrible from the start. Big thumbs down from me. The first six songs should be axed. Then song number seven “Kansas,” less a song and more of a break into the scheduled programming, reset the vibe, and the album truly began. The Devil Wears Prada slayed it for five straight after that! My song by song notes are below.
“Dead Throne”: The guitar crunch is nice, but it all got soggy in the middle school kids with disgruntled hobos vocals.
“Untidaled”: A really creative title right? Uncreative song, except for when they break into the pop chorus style lines, the reason being I see it as the selling point of the ticket. You have the crazy screechy stuff and then bust into Christian pop and the followers will be called home to Jesus with wallets open.
“Mammoth”: Sounds like a mammoth just stepped on his crotch. Needs trumpet, yeah, trumpet.
“Vengeance”: Things are not going so well on Sesame Street. Cookie Monster and Big Bird are rampaging with some power pop rock thrown in for good measure. Driving crunch guitars are cool, but the riffs haven’t perked my ears up in a unique way just yet.
“R.I.T.”: Standard at its best, which is me leaning towards being positive about it. I’m not being sarcastic, I mean it’s the best track so far, but not one I would download or need to hear again. It’s instills a: we’re warming up hope.
“My Questions”: The mix of sounds is polished up better in terms of rhythm taking hold. It feels like the singer’s yelling is off in the distance though as opposed to up front in your face. Another middle ground, not bad track.
“Kansas”: It’s actually pretty cool in how it delivers a brief message with a distorted recording of voice, other than that it is a solid, three and a half minute instrumental. I’m hoping it is a build up for the next song being awesome, a late album intro if you will.
“Born To Lose”: “Born To Lose,” seemingly empowered by the vibe of “Kansas” is the hit single for me off of the album; thus far. This one rocks it out in all the right ways.
“Forever Decay”: If The Hollywood Undead sang along to some heavy metal-ers. Another rifftastic winner here. “Forever Decay” hits and the vocals play along seriously and epic.
“Chicago”: Tortured demon ballad rage that builds up ever so wonderfully.
“Constance”: The way Sesame Street should be raged in! Cookie Monster is boss.
“Pretenders”: Par for the course filler, but par isn’t over.
“Hold Fast”: Solid end, same sounds mainly, but well done.