American metalcore mainstays The Devil Wears Prada recently dropped their brand new album Color Decay. Their eighth full-length, Color Decay sees the band strengthen their already tight grip on dynamics,  juxtaposing melody with chaos, creating an immersive and impactful listening experience.

Crafted in remote hideaways in California and Wisconsin, the self-produced Color Decay enabled The Devil Wears Prada to fully embrace their individual and collective creative potential.  Lead by singles Salt and Broken, it is the natural continuation of the soundscape the band has been developing since 2005. 

To celebrate the release of Color Decay we caught up with The Devil Wears Prada's vocalist Jeremy DePoyster who gave us the inside word on five things we didn't know about Color Decay.

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Color Decay

Living The Airbnb Dream

"We did the entire record ourselves in a bunch of Airbnbs. We have kind of said that in previous press material, but I think it's still pretty cool that we literally did all of it in there, like, all of the vocals on the album were tracked just in a bedroom. And we built our own PVC structure thing and just like hung blankets up and stuff. It’s just crazy that you can have songs literally on the radio that you make in your bedroom now where we’d previously have to go to million dollar studios and stuff. So that was pretty cool to do. We didn't know it was gonna work, but it did."

A Carry Over From The Act

"One song called Fire on Color Decay, we actually were writing for our last album called The Act. Jon and I started writing that song in, like, 2018 and we got as far as tracking it in the studio on a piano - and it just sounded weird. So, we went back and brought it back in for this album, four years later and it ended up sticking."

Broken's Reality

"Part of the song Broken was inspired by some stories I had told when we were on tour and I was just having a rough time adjusting back into the touring lifestyle and just, you know, the drinking was tough to reckon with being back on the road. So that's a pretty intimate song based on those reasons."

Caffeine Drive 

"Every single day while making the album, literally every day - we would drive. We were in the desert in California at this desert house that we rented and every day we would drive to this coffee shop and get a horchata cold brew, literally every day. Our credit card statement had like 30, or maybe like 53 from the same coffee shop on it. And I probably have diabetes from it now, but it was just so good. We had to have it! "

Secret Sample 

"At the very beginning of the record, there's a song called Exhibition that kicks off Color Decay and there's a sample in the back of it that Jon had snuck in there. And the sample was, for some reason he was recording me, just walking around the yard, talking about how stoked I was to be making a record, not at a studio, just at a house and vibing and there's bug noises and stuff in the background. It’s kind of cool that it's hidden in there just talking about making the record and then it kicks off."

Color Decay

01. Exhibition

02. Salt

03. Watchtower

04. Noise

05. Broken

06. Sacrifice

07. Trapped

08. Time

09. Twenty-Five

10. Fire

11. Hallucinate

12. Cancer

Color Decay is out now via Solid State Records.

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