Today in 2009 Devildriver released the album Pray for Villains Santa Barbara, California Nu-metal (early), Groove/Melodic Death Metal (later) Status:Active Years active: 2002-2003 (as Deathride), 2003-present DevilDriver is a groove metal band from California, United States that formed in 2002. The group was started by Dez Fafara, formerly of the band Coal Chamber, as a result of frustrations stemming from the more mainstream direction his former band mates were attempting to take their music. After the demise of Coal Chamber, DevilDriver became his main focus. Their debut album, the self-titled DevilDriver, was released on October 23, 2003 under Roadrunner Records. Their second album, The Fury of Our Makers Hearted, was released in 2005 and was generally well-received by fans and critics alike, even garnering a 4K review from renowned rock magazine Kerrang. The band went on numerous tours in support of the album, including stops in the USA, Europe, and Australia in support of Fear Factory, as well as the Burning Daylight Tour, their first headlining. On October 31, 2006, DevilDriver re-released their 2005 album The Fury of Our Makers Hand with three additional studio tracks and three live recordings of previously released material. The special edition also contains a DVD of all of their music videos to date. The Last Kind Words is the third studio album by DevilDriver, released in the United States on July 31, 2007. It was released in the United Kingdom on June 19. The album debuted at number 48 on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling about 14,000 copies in its first week. A devil driver is the name witches give to the bells they use to drive evil away when they are casting their spells. For lead singer Dez Fafara, music has always been a devil driver of sorts - allowing him to drive away all of the demons of his world with a bellowing howl that is distinctively his. Ten years long and ten years strong, his assault on music has created a sound that remains both remarkably resonant and pertinent in todays metal world. DevilDrivers second album, The Fury Of Our Makers Hand, produced by Colin Richardson, sees Fafara and the band reaching well beyond the rock solid foundation of their self-titled debut and scaling all new sonic precipices. While most bands mature from their debut to their follow-up, DevilDriver did so by growing tighter as unit and enabling every member of the band to add to the musical sound of the band. Like many bands before them, DevilDriver went through a number of transitions during this period, and rather than finding those changes to be creatively constrictive, they allowed the band to grow as a creative unit. A true collaborative effort, The Fury of Our Makers Hand was built riff by riff, song by song, by Jeff Kendrick & Mike Spreitzer (guitar), Jon Miller (bass) and John Boecklin (drums). This band is amazing, says Fafara. They all strapped on guitars and really came together around my musical vision. Together they created an album whose sonic breadth is truly a testament to their collaborative effort. Theres more melody, more hooks, more solos. Theres more symbiosis in the band. Everyone is playing together really well. Songs like End of the Line and Driving Down The Darkness are unrelenting compositions of equal parts speed and fury, showing what team-work can actually accomplish, taking DevilDrivers sound into the red. Sin & Sacrifice is an opus in the truest metal sense with a DevilDriver twist, starting off with an eerie orchestral intro and slowly building into wave after wave of menacing metal madness. Hold Back The Day, the first single from Fury, combines the old with the new, simultaneously harkening back to their debut album while clearly reaching into new and fresh directions. The songs are all separate from each other, but theyve also got that grindy groove sound that only we can capture, says Fafara. Weve got our own sound and thats what we set out to do. Not only has the bands music matured, but Fafaras lyrics have done so as well. Gone are the days of free-floating, non-linear vocal lines that have become Fafaras trademark of sorts, rather Fury finds Fafara tackling issues and telling stories in a more traditional lyrical sense. Before you had to try and figure out what I was saying in my lyrics. On the new album Im trying to be more of a storyteller. While DevilDriver was laced with some of Fafaras familiar cadences, The Fury of Our Makers Hand finds him breaking free and redirecting his sound in line with that of this band. Fafara looks back with respect on his Coal Chamber days, but DevilDriver is the realization of all his true musical aspirations. The influence to start this band was that I wanted to do something that was heavier, darker and full of more of my metal influences that I listen to on a daily basis. Every time I get on stage, I want to feel the music behind me. That is DevilDriver. Born out of frustration with his former band, cultivated through numerous barbecues and free-flowing red wine and solidified through a near-death experience in an RV, DevilDriver is not Dez Fafara and crew rather it is a hard-as-nails metallic maelstrom that pounds out some of the most vicious music heard on the metal landscape today. A balancing act of contorted melody lines, jagged guitars and staccato double bass drumming, The Fury of Our Makers Hand delivers a uniquely sinister sound. An uncompromising tirade on all that is wrong in the world and all that is right in metal, it delivers a resounding F*CK YOU to the world at large. Joined by his band and fueled by perseverance its good to see that after 10 years Dez Fafaras middle finger is bigger than ever. Roadrunner Records Dez Fafara – vocals Mike Spreitzer – guitar Jeff Kendrick – guitar Jon Miller – bass, guitar John Boecklin – drums, guitar 1. Pray for Villains (4:05) 2. Pure Sincerity 3. Fate Stepped In 4. Back With a Vengeance 5. Ive Been Sober 6. Resurrection Boulevard 7. Forgiveness Is a Six Gun 8. Waiting for November 9. Its in the Cards 10. Another Night in London 11. Bitter Pill 12. Teach Me to Whisper 13. I See Belief Produced by Logan Mader / Dirty Icon Productions. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Logan Mader at The Edge of the Earth Studios, Los Angeles, California. Drums recorded at The Lair Studio, Los Angeles, California. Additional guitar production and mix advice by Andy Sneap. Vocal pre-production by Greg Weiss at Conspiracy Theory Studios. Music pre-production by Michael Spreitzer at Ocean 242. All lyrics written by Dez Fafara. All music written by Michael Spreitzer, Jeffrey Kendrick, Jonathan Miller, and John Boecklin, and recorded for DevilDriver Inc. Additional lyrics on Pure Sincerity and Teach Me To Whisper by Logan Mader. Photography by Myriam Santos. Illustration and design by Ryan Clark / Invisible Creature, Seattle. Bonus Tracks (on Lmtd. Edition, released with a different Cover-Artwork): 14. Self-Affliction (04:48) 15. Dust Be The Destiny (03:09) 16. Damning The Heavens (02:19) 17. Wasted Years (05:00) (Iron Maiden cover) Pray for Villains is the fourth studio album by DevilDriver, released on July 14, 2009. On April 24 Roadrunner unveiled the cover artwork for both the regular and special editions of Pray for Villains. It was also announced that the special edition will be a CD/DVD package with 4 bonus tracks, a behind the scenes DVD and expanded artwork. On the May 21st Devildriver released the single Pray for Villains to the public. On June 17, the music video for Pray For Villains premiered on MetalSucks.net. Play also teamed up with Roadrunner to offer Resurrection Blvd. for free download to people who preorder the special edition of the CD from the Play website. The album sold around 14,600 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 35 on The Billboard 200 chart. Pray for Villains is the first and (so far) only album to not contain the Cross of Confusion, the bands logo, in its artwork. youtube/watch?v=JrRc00stV5w
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