With Roots Above and Branches Below
Ferret Records
The Old Testament brutality and massive sound achieved on their first, second and now third album, “With Roots Above and Branches Below,” has, in just a few years, earned Dayton, Ohio’s The Devil Wears Prada mainstream buzz and secular cred — the likes of which the persecuted mid-90s pioneers of so-called Spirit-filled Hard Core would have never thought possible.
The metal core prodigies have hosted MTV’s “Headbangers Ball,” mainstage’d Vans’ Warped Tour, showed off their tattoos on the covers of not just HM (Heaven’s Metal) magazine, but Outburn, AMP and Alternative Press, which just named them 2009’s Band of the Year. Even The New York Times seems to like them, even with lyrics like “my only regret is not writing more for you, Lord.” And there’s a reason. A loud, haunting, punch-in-the gut-of a reason.
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