The Devil Wears Prada Can Do Whatever They Want

It’s hard to find a band today that’s more synonymous with metalcore music than the Devil Wears Prada. The Dayton, Ohio, group got together in 2005, when founding vocalist Mike Hranica was just seventeen years old, and went on to sonically define an underground subgenre that blew up with the help of MySpace and the Warped Tour.

Early albums such as Plagues (2007) and With Roots Above and Branches Below (2009) pushed the nascent metalcore sound into the mainstream, and Prada, as Hranica refers to his lifelong band, has been an unstoppable force ever since, still thriving decades after many contemporaries have fallen by the wayside.

“I think Prada’s an important vehicle in the genre. I think that would be hard to argue, but at the same time I don’t consider that a pat on the…