The Devil Wears Prada's latest album "Dead Throne" revolves around "false Idols". Idols we know God abhors, something the word of God is very clear on. DWP's whole album reflects the message of stop putting People/things on a "dead throne". Fact is anything you put above God is an Idol.1."Dead Throne"
The album starts off strong with the aptly titled "Dead Throne". The intro of the beating drums with the slowly rising guitars is phenomenal. The whole song is consistently heavy behind screams of an over all theme of "I can't hold you up" and how we have put the world up on a "Dead throne" pretty straight forward.
Great song..
2."Untidaled"
Continues the heavy onslaught and is a great following song to "Dead throne". This song is just as good as "dead throne" and I love when it breaks into the melody singing "Time to be joyful in no consistency. Faith can be our only regularity" then about at 2:20 when everything else seems to fade away into the heavy riff.
3."Mammoth"
This is probably my favorite on the whole album lyrically and for the cleans, it's still heavy as the first couple but the chorus is more refined and with clean vocals.(I'm a sucker for brutal mixed with clean vocals) Also love the beginning riff screaming into "I WONT" "LET THIS RUIN ME!"
The first three songs on this album are rock-steady for sure, not that they are
per-say the heaviest on the album but they are favorites of mine. I will say the album as a whole is very much like the Zombie EP, which by the way I absolutely loved. I think after starting off hot the album falls short with the 4th song "Vengeance" nothing particularly that stands out to me with that song at all.
However…
5."R.I.T"
Is a hefty song, and what I mean by that is it is hard-hitting and powerful from start to finish. The opening got my attention quickly and the screaming chorus of "With every single move that you make, you come closer to breaking me! With every single breath that I take, you push further from helping me."
6."My Questions"
Falls a little short for me, but not as bad as vengeance did. There is some parts of this song that I find respectable, and I'm sure some will love it because it's not horrible.
7."Kansas"
Is an instrumental not much to say it's ok
8."Born To Lose"
Is the first single that is being plugged off this album. It follows the first song "dead Throne" perfectly and is a great judge of the album, if you don't like the song I doubt you would like much of the album period. I for one love the title of the song and the theme, and musically as well. "You don't know what you need we're all so back and forth, nothing is as it seems. You don't know what you need. We make the same mistakes, we've ruined everything."-chorus is killer
9."Forever Decay"
I don't really quite know how to explain it but it seems like it doesn't belong amongst the album. It actually seems more fitting for the Zombie EP, in fact it sounds like one of the songs on the EP, not that thats really a bad thing as I said I loved the Zombie EP. This song particular however is just ok..
Actually "Forever Decay" and "Chicago" both fall into the category of "Bleh" too me
nothing special about either song, nothing that stands out, just kind of more of the same and going through the motions.
11."Constance"
Is a little more appealing for the orchestra feel at around the middle of the song and dropping into the chorus, but it just pretty much trials off after that for me.
12."Pretenders"
Thankfully brings the album back on course, I enjoy the whole song from beginning to end, the whole feel of the song is outstanding specially breaking into "I KNOW HOW YOU FUNCTION" then towards the end at 2:33 it breaks into a wicked guitar solo. major kudos for this song
13."Holdfast"
Is the last song and leaves the album with a good vibe, like a good ending to a movie you just watched is how the album ends for me.
I must say, after the zombie EP I wasn't sure how Devil Wears Prada would follow up, I wasn't expecting to enjoy the album as much as I have, and when I say that, I mean I was expecting to like maybe a couple songs off the album, but I like this album way more then "With Roots Above and Branches Below". Again, it's really just more on the niche of the Zombie EP.
3 1/2 out of 5
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