Transit Blues
Transit Blues is the sixth studio album by American metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada. It was released on October 7, 2016, through Rise Records, their only album on the label since 2007's Plagues. For the album, Giuseppe Capolupo, drummer of Demise of Eros, Haste the Day and Once Nothing, stated he had recorded on Transit Blues, after Daniel Williams left the band. It is also the band's first album to feature Kyle Sipress on guitar.
Style
Transit Blues is a metalcore album, with influences of southern rock and ambient music. The release has also been called "Not just another metalcore album" and regarded as more mature than the band's former "by-the-numbers metalcore" sound.The album features numerous lyrics inspired by literature; "Praise Poison" references The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, "Daughter" references The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir, and "To The Key of Evergreen" references Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
Reception
Track listing
Personnel
All credits by AllMusicThe Devil Wears Prada
- Mike Hranica – lead vocals, additional guitars
- Jeremy DePoyster – clean vocals, rhythm guitar
- Andy Trick – bass guitar
- Kyle Sipress – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Giuseppe Capolupo – drums
- Jonathan Gering – keyboards, synthesizer
- Dan Korneff – producer, engineer, mixing
- The Devil Wears Prada – producer
- Nick Sferlazza – engineer
- Ted Jensen – mastering
- Ben Wilcox – demo engineer, rehearsal director
- Stephen Harrison – vocals
- Anthony Barlich – photography
- Jonathan Gering – composer
- Mike Hranica – art direction
- Jarryd Nelson – editing
- Alex Prieto – editing
- Micah Sedmak – art direction, design, layout
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