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| Mike Hranica |
The Devil Wears Prada formed as a metalcore band in 2005 in Dayton, Ohio. The musicians named the band after the novel because they believed the title made an anti-materialistic statement they liked; they had not read the book, however, and the popular movie based on the story had not been made yet. The band began by playing the midwestern Christian music circuit, ultimately gravitating to touring on secular bookings. The Devil Wears Prada currently consists of vocalist Mike Hranica, lead guitarist Kyle Sipress, rhythm guitarist Jeremy DePoyster, and bassist Andy Trick. The band currently is touring with two additional musicians, keyboardist Jonathan Gering and drummer Giuseppe Capolupo. The band's sixth full-length studio album, Transit Blues, was released on October 7, 2016.
Although the band introduced occasional soft melodies as a counterbalance, the Devil Wears Prada's set tonight at the Gramercy Theatre was total metal brutality, pulverizing mercilessly everything and everyone in its path. It seems that with each album and tour the band has reached its maximum violence, but in fact each album and tour seems to grow heavier and heavier. The set spanned the band's 12-year repertoire, and the result was that songs that were hard before were made even harder this time around. Hranica growled and grunted his lyrics, the guitarists built tension through distorted, crunching riffs, and the rhythm section pounded hard. The band mastered the art of crafting complex pieces that escalated to fever pitch and then looked down at the decimated vulnerable below. You had to be strong to survive this atomic assault.
Visit the Devil Wears Prada at www.tdwpband.com.
Setlist:
- Daughter (No Sun/No Moon Intro)
- Sassafras
- Assistant to the Regional Manager
- Planet A
- Worldwide
- Born to Lose
- Forever Decay
- Escape
- Survivor
- To the Key of Evergreen
- Kansas
- Transgress
- Supernova
- Dez Moines
- Reptar, King of the Ozone
- Danger: Wildman
Encore:
- Mammoth
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