Roadrunner Records has set a September 17 release date for “8:18”, the long-awaited new album from the Dayton, Ohio Christian metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada.
The Devil Wears Prada officially unveiled the start of pre-orders for“8:18” with a direct video invitation to their fans around the world, streaming now at their official YouTube channel. All pre-orders at tdwpband.com receive instant free MP3 downloads of two new tracks,“Home For Grave” and “Martyrs”. Pre-orders are also available now on the iTunes store. “Martyrs”, the first track/video from “8:18” was produced by The Devil Wears Prada, the clip was shot and edited by the band’s own Jeremy DePoyster and Andy Trick. The video can be seen below.
Furthermore, The Devil Wears Prada have announced details of an upcoming North American headline tour. “The 8:18 Tour”, which will see the band accompanied by The Ghost Inside, Volumes and Texas In July, gets underway November 2 in Detroit at the Royal Oak Music Theatre and continues through December 20, wrapping in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Tickets for all dates will be on sale August 2. Singer Mike Hranica commented: “We’ve loved playing two new songs over the course of this year, and with that being said we’re really excited to debut more material live. For me, ‘8:18’ is meant to reflect a live sense of vocals, so doing another headline tour like this is going to be excellent.”
Long acclaimed as among one of the most potent and provocative bands in modern American metal, The Devil Wears Prada made a massive leap forward with the stunning “8:18”. The album — executive-produced by Killswitch Engage‘s Adam Dutkiewicz and produced by the band along with producer/engineer Matt Goldman [Underoath, The Chariot]— sees the group driving its relentless sonic approach with more might than ever before, giving extreme power to frontman Mike Hranica‘s grim, emotional lyricism.
Asked how the new effort compares to 2011’s “Dead Throne”, vocalist Mike Hranica told Music Feeds: “I think it’s kind of a totally new animal. It definitely is a very cohesive record. A lot of the times, I feel like we’ll write songs and a lot of them are really cool songs and they’ll all have kind of a theme, but sometimes they stray from that path of the theme that we originally intended. And I think that this album as a whole, it all sounds like the album, it all is a cohesive idea.
Which, don’t get me wrong — I don’t mean to say that all the songs sound the same, because they definitely, each has their own unique personality. But as far as ‘Dead Throne’, our progression from ‘Dead Throne’, I definitely do think that this album is just a more mature record and has a lot more thought put into it. As always — we’re always gonna put a little bit more effort and thought into the new record than our previous effort.”
Back in January, The Devil Wears Prada frontman Mike Hranica told Loudwire about the songwriting process for the new album: “For me, I definitely feel a little bit of a carry-over from ‘Dead Throne’, particularly because it was a very cool record for me learning, for me learning to write better and that was working with a new [producer] … working with Adam for the first time and having [A Day To Remember’s] Jeremy McKinnon working on some of the songs with us, and I feel I took a lot from that. On ‘Dead Throne’, there were better vocal parts and everything was more cohesive and understandable and made for better song structure and everything and that had had a big impact on me creatively and so it’s definitely carried over into this.”
He added: “Conceptually, the concepts of ‘Dead Throne’ didn’t carry over. I feel like that would be repetitive and monotonous to keep going at the same subject matter, but obviously, it all comes from the same place and I can say that nothing got more happy or uplifting, really. So I think it’s very much The Devil Wears Prada, but also it’s got a bit of freshness and originality to it and I think that even musically we started approaching the songs differently. Like, this song could be more like this and working off of a base we never really worked off of before.”
Dead Throne has been released on September 13th 2011 via Ferret Records. The album sold 32,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 10 on The Billboard 200 chart. To read our review click here.
Recently The Devil Wears Prada toured through Europe. Pictures of their show earlier this month [July 2] in ‘Tivoli’, Utrecht, the Netherlands, can be seen here. To read our review click here.
Tracklist:
01. Gloom
02. Rumors
03. First Sight
04. War
05. 8:18
06. Sailor’s Prayer
07. Care More
08. Martyrs
09. Black & Blue
10. Transgress
11. Number Eleven
12. Home for Grave
13. In Heart
Upcoming Shows:
Aug 03 Alliance Fest, Mcdonald, PA
Aug 04 Intensity Music Festival, Arlington, VA
Oct 01 Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Oct 02 O2 Islington Academy London, United Kingdom
Oct 04 Great Hall 2, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Oct 05 The Fleece, Bristol, United Kingdom
Oct 06 Asylum, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Oct 07 Waterfront, Norwich, United Kingdom
Oct 08 King Tuts, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Oct 10 Academy 1, Dublin, Ireland
Oct 11 Mandela Hall, Ireland, United Kingdom
Oct 12 O2 Academy 2, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Oct 14 Club Academy, Manchester, United Kingdom
Oct 15 Corporation, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Video below ‘Martyrs’
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