Formation and Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord (2005—2007)
The Devil Wears Prada was founded in 2005 in Dayton Ohio;[1] they derived their band name from the story with the same title.[2]The band recorded and released their demo entitled Patterns of a Horizon in 2005, and later re-recorded all the of the tracks from the demo to be recorded for their debut full-length album, Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord, which was released on August 22, 2006, the final track of the album features guest vocals, courtesy of Cole Wallace formerly of the metalcore band Gwen Stacy. The demo version of their song "HTML Rulez D00d" was placed on the band's MySpace profile on January 1, 2007. On July 11, AbsolutePunk began to stream their song "Don't Dink and Drance", which led to further exposure for the band.
Plagues (2007)
The Devil Wears Prada's second album Plagues was released on August 21, 2007. The songs from the album "HTML Rulez D00d" and "Hey John, What's Your Name Again?" were released as the album's two singles, both of which spawned music videos that aired on television channels such as MTV and Fuse. Plagues peaked at #57 on the Billboard 200 on September 8, 2007[3] and has been considered a great success since its original release, selling more than 30,000 copies more than their debut album, Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord.[4] It was re-released on October 28, 2008 in a digipak form that includes a DVD in which features the music videos for album's two singles as well as footage of The Devil Wears Prada playing at 2008's Warped Tour and Ultimatour.Later in the year, the band was interviewed by East Coast Romper, and stated that their primary influences are Underoath and Still Remains, which was mistaken on their official website, stating the exact opposite. The band recorded a cover of the rap song "Still Fly", originally written and performed by Big Tymers, the cover song was released on the compilation album Punk Goes Crunk.[5]
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