The Devil Wears Prada Let Their Sound Blossom in Their New Album Flowers

Celebrating 20 years of being a band, The Devil Wears Prada have continually reinvented their sound, evolving from the chaotic metalcore of their early days into a band unafraid to explore vulnerability, melody, and emotional weight with their new album Flowers. This album feels like the natural culmination of that journey: a record rooted in reflection, loss, renewal, and the fragile beauty that grows between the cracks.

Over the years, The Devil Wears Prada have been transitioning their sound from their early Myspace days of heavy screams and insane breakdowns to include a much more melodic sound but still have those heavy breakdowns they are known for like in songs “Where the Flowers Never Grow” and “Ritual”. “Ritual” was the first song that gave us a taste of what to expect from the new album with its dystopian synths and heavy electronic sound, the song became one of TDWP most stand out tracks on the album. Later they released “For You”, which gave us a much more emotional side to the band, pushing forward to a much more melodic sound that expressed the maturity and the growth they have achieved over the years. The band has been working on Flowers for a few years, so when we got not one but two new tracks, “Where the Flowers Never Grow” and “Wave”, it truly culminated to the new sound TDWP have been working on for the past few years.

Now I know most people would want a band to play their sound that they are known for, but over the years bands will experiment with their sound and it may work for some and for others it doesn’t. For The Devil Wears Prada, it works. They have learned to mesh all their years of being in the scene into one beautiful album that explores the old and the new. You get a taste of the old TDWP with the song “All Out” with the heavy guitar riffs and drums, but also a great blend of Mike Hranica and Jeremy DePoyster’s clean and unclean vocals. Lyrically, this song does explore the new direction that the band has been leaning towards like the other songs, exploring themes of betrayal, frustration, and cyclical relational pain. It’s not just nostalgia for old sound — it’s a powerful, raw moment of confrontation and catharsis. Honorable mention for the song “Cure Me”, which is probably in my top favorite songs off the new album. “Cure Me” is one of those songs that carries so much emotion in it without it being extremely sad musically. The music itself is much more upbeat while lyrically the song carries a much deeper meaning of wanting something real to make the pain go away, but also realizing that some pain is part of you.

Overall, Flowers true human emotions and a great growth of a band who’s been around for so long and showing why they’ve made it so far in their career. Definitely give the album a listen to and you will truly love every single bit of it.