Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on Cutter’s Rockcast, The Devil Wears Prada guitarist/vocalist Jeremy DePoyster offered an update on the band’s upcoming record. According to him, the group “have an album that [they] have pretty much finished that’s gonna come out later this year.”

DePoyster said the following when asked if “For You” and “Ritual” can be viewed as “a natural progression”:

“We haven’t really said anything about it, but we have an album that we have pretty much finished that’s gonna come out later this year. And there’s a lot of heavy stuff on there too. Sometimes I just think I like putting out songs like this ’cause it riles people up and they’re, like, ‘Oh, this is how you are now’ and everything. I love it. I like to be hated on. My band is called THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. I’ve been made fun of my whole life, so I welcome it. [Laughs]

I think you just have to follow that weird feeling of excitement that you get when… I write so many songs. We as a band write so many songs and we don’t end up using a lot of ’em, and certain ones just have this, like, oomph to it, you know it’s special. And so I can think about the times in our career where things dipped down a little bit. I knew instinctually this isn’t right. It’s not exactly how I would wanna do it, and I wish I had chased that feeling more. But it’s more about just doing that and not listening to your team if they’re, like, ‘You need to put something out right now.’

We took three years to make this new album, just because I’m, like, ‘I wanna wait until all the pieces are correct,’ and it actually matters and can have an impact.

Being in a band 20 years ago was, like, we just wanted to make something new that no one had heard before. And it’s hard to do that over and over, but I feel like we finally have the space to be able to do it again.”

He also added the following when asked about the three-year long wait:

“I think we’ve just been on the road so much, man. We literally are on tour for, like, seven or eight months out of the year, and we’ve just been hitting it hard here and in Europe and Australia and stuff like that. So it’s trying to balance… Basically, every time we would get home from a tour, we’d go out to L.A. and work on a bunch of music. And then I’m, like, ‘Well, I need to go home for, like, two or three weeks and hang out with my fiancée and my cat and stuff, ’cause we’ve been so much,’ and then I wanted to take a vacation. So it sounds like a long time, but it probably only was four or five months just spread out over three years. [Laughs]”

[vis Blabbermouth]