R.I.T, a brand new song from the Dayton, Ohio Christian metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, has been “leaked” and can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The track comes off the group’s new album, Dead Throne, which will be released in the U.S. on September 13 via Ferret Music and one day earlier internationally through Roadrunner Records.
The follow-up to 2009’s critically acclaimed With Roots Above and Branches Below was recorded at Zing Studios in Massachusetts with producer Adam Dutkiewicz (Killswitch Engage, Times Of Grace). Additional synth/key production was handled by Joey Sturgis (who has worked on all of the The Devil Wears Prada records so far) with further assistance on the vocal production by Jeremy McKinnon (A Day To Remember).
The Devil Wears Prada‘s most recent release, last summer’s five-track conceptual “Zombie” EP, sold around 25,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 10 on The Billboard 200 chart.
“Dead Throne” track listing:
01. Dead Throne
02. Untidaled
03. Mammoth
04. Vengeance
05. R.I.T.
06. My Questions
07. Kansas
08. Born To Lose
09. Forever Decay
10. Chicago
11. Constance
12. Pretenders
13. Hold Fast
In a recent interview with Loudwire, The Devil Wears Prada guitarist Chris Rubey stated about the songwriting process for “Dead Throne”, “We took a pretty drastic change in our songwriting about halfway through the songwriting of [2009’s] ‘With Roots [Above and Branches Below’]. Since then, we’ve done the ‘Zombie’ EP. Back on our first two albums we weren’t touring yet, so we had enough time to sit down in a room and have everybody throw out ideas and work as a band. But since our touring schedule has picked up — and I think you can notice it most on ‘Zombie’ EP — we kind of took a different style of music. ‘Zombie’ EP has obviously heavier and more sinister and zombie-like. Those songs were written pretty much solely by me on my computer and that’s why they sound different. For ‘Dead Throne’, we wanted to do that and obviously bring in some of the elements that people like. Some people still today tell me that their favorite album by us is [2007’s] ‘Plagues’, and when I listen back to it I guess the only thing that I can see why is that we had a lot of chemistry working together. I would say I wrote nine or ten of the 13 tracks [for ‘Dead Throne’] on my computer just in the same vein as ‘Zombie’ EP. I write the songs start to finish, program the drums, play both guitars, bass and everything. And then I’ll just show the band and then they learn the songs. We got together in Chicago and Kansas and learned the songs. But then we also jammed some songs on this albums — the lighter songs, plus two or three more on top of those lighter ones were full-band jam songs. That’s pretty much how the writing process went.”
When asked what Dutkiewicz brought to the table as the producer of the album, Rubey said, “Since I wrote all the songs on the computer beforehand, we were able to bring him demos and have him essentially listen to the entire album before he even started recording it. We had the full band in the studio for the first few days, and he would come back and he would say, ‘Alright, lets listen to these demos.’ And he actually did more as a producer than any of us could have ever hoped for. In the past, we’ve never rearranged songs, we never did too much. Adam really dissected the songs. For each song, he had each instrument separated out. He was pretty much a mad scientist with the songs. Then we went in and recorded them and he kept changing little things, and everything he said we agreed with. I think it’s good to have someone who’s not too close to the songs like we were.”
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