Color Decay
SOLID STATE
Ohio’s metalcore heavies find more shades of mayhem
OVER THE LAST 17 years, The Devil Wears Prada have carved a niche for themselves making arty, post-hardcoretinged-metalcore that always subverts expectation. The light and shade of last year’s Zombie II, a sequel to 2010’s monstrous Zombie EP, proved just how far they had come since the days when bludgeoning heaviness was the only weapon in their arsenal. But even now, on their eighth album, the Ohioans are finding new ways to challenge themselves.
The material on falls somewhere between and the dynamism of 2016’s pushing the familiar into new realms. Each of the opening three tracks – and album highlight – are expertly structured to show off every aspect of the band’s range, with huge choruses sitting aside filthy grooves and walls of dense, apocalypticis surely one of their catchiest, its glittering refrain nestled amongst spiky, serrated riffs,
