A night of crushing riffs, chaotic energy and genre-bending supports… what more could you ask for at The Devil Wears Prada’s first ÜK headline tour in 11 years? Josh B was front and centre to find out the answer…
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After maintaining self-imposed radio silence for something like six years, this Swedish alt-rock crew have come storming back with an album which, in Monk’s personal opinion, puts a lot more high profile genre contemporaries such as Alter Bridge in the darkest and shadiest of corners (a controversial statement in itself, given that DQ is the Uber Kingdom’s #1 Kennedy/Tremonti fan so the boss is probably getting the “all picture no sound” treatment until the next AB album comes out to try and prove him wrong).
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Breaking a silence of four years, these Finnish black metallers return with an epic album that echoes both the bleak beauty and the eloquent elegance of the landscape which formed, gestated and inspired this equally beautifully bleak and elegantly eloquent fourth album from a band who truly know how to blend beauty, bleakness, elegance and eloquence with a rare sense of cohesive equanimity that is as entrancing as it is enervating.
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This is basically a one-man project by a guy called CJ Jarvis, who is based in Pennsylvania. And that, dear readers, is basically all we know, apart from the fact that he recently implanted this debut six-track EP in our inbox…
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Despite their rather anomalous name, this is a relatively youthful Swedish quartet whose initial storyline could echo one of one of those stupid straight-to-TV ‘B’ movies that piggybacked the success of the likes of ‘School Of Rock’, in that they are a bunch of high school friends who came together for a one-off gig but have stuck together ever since, releasing two albums and now this new five-track EP.
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