For most bands, going the concept record route can be a tricky proposition. There’s always the potential you’ll get bogged down by that one idea and end up taking the whole thing way too seriously. You risk coming across as trite when you churn out epic full-lengths with a dozen tracks about unicorns and minotaurs. But leave it to a band like crushing American metal six-piece The Devil Wears Prada to take the concept album model and raze it. Leave it to The Devil Wears Prada, voted 2009’s Band of the Year by the readers of Alternative Press, to make concept records bad-ass again. Pardon the pun, but for The Devil Wears Prada, 2009 was one hell of a year. And it was late in 2009 that the band’s frontman Mike Hranica decided, while on a tour of the United Kingdom with post-hardcore luminaries Enter Shikari, that before they’d write and record a new full-length, they’d release a five-song EP. The concept? “The whole thing is just completely based upon zombies,” Hranica explains of Zombie EP, which drops this August through venerable New Jersey metal and hardcore label Ferret Music. “During the fall, I was on a real zombie kick. I just thought, ‘What if we made a zombie song?’ All it took was me just saying that to the band, and we already had our hearts set on doing this EP.” The flesh-hungry folly of Zombie EP hobbles into stores this summer and you can catch The Devil Wears Prada’s infamous live show all summer long on the “Back to the Roots Tour,” the band’s first headlining run since their first-ever South American trek in May. That tour kicks off June 18 at the Ichthus Music Festival in Wilmore, KY with dates booked through September 4 in Frenchtown, New Jersey.

Vinyl Color:  Black

Track Listing

Escape  
Anatomy  
Outnumbered  
Revive  
Survivor