By MIKE CHAIKEN EDITIONS EDITOR “Star Trek” may have espoused that space is the final frontier. But “Space” is also the latest release from Ohio’s The Devil Wears Prada, which has set its launch pad up on the main stage of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival this summer. The tour stops into Hartford on July 19. The band’s lead singer Mike Hranica explained that in 2010, the band released an EP built around a single theme, 2010’s “Zombies.” Mike said the band had so much fun with that record, and fans had so much fun with it, The Devil Wears Prada spoke about doing something similar at a future date. When the group started thinking a year ago about recording some new material, Mike said the time seemed to be right for an EP follow up for “Zombies.” And the idea came about this time to center the EP around the theme of space. The songs began to develop with different musical manifestations of the theme. Press materials for the EP explain: “The very metal ‘Space’ EP features some of the most sophisticated lyrics, arrangements, and musicianship The Devil Wears Prada has produced, depicting the emptiness, loneliness and vastness […]
By MIKE CHAIKEN EDITIONS EDITOR “Star Trek” may have espoused that space is the final frontier. But “Space” is also the latest release from Ohio’s The Devil Wears Prada, which has set its launch pad up on the main stage of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival this summer. The tour stops into Hartford on July 19. The band’s lead singer Mike Hranica explained that in 2010, the band released an EP built around a single theme, 2010’s “Zombies.” Mike said the band had so much fun with that record, and fans had so much fun with it, The Devil Wears Prada spoke about doing something similar at a future date. When the group started thinking a year ago about recording some new material, Mike said the time seemed to be right for an EP follow up for “Zombies.” And the idea came about this time to center the EP around the theme of space. The songs began to develop with different musical manifestations of the theme. Press materials for the EP explain: “The very metal ‘Space’ EP features some of the most sophisticated lyrics, arrangements, and musicianship The Devil Wears Prada has produced, depicting the emptiness, loneliness and vastness […]