historycal music: History The Devil Wears Prada

Formation and Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord (2005—2006)

The Devil Wears Prada was founded 2005,they derived their band name from the story with the same title in reference to the story's message about "anti-materialism.

The band released their demo entitled Patterns of a Horizon, 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 lead 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 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.

On an interview with East Coast Romper, the band states that their primary influences are Underoath and Still Remains, which was mistaken on their official website, stating the exact opposite. The band performed a cover of the rap song "Still Fly", originally performed by Big Tymers, the cover song was released on the compilation album Punk Goes Crunk.

With Roots Above and Branches Below (2008—present)

The Devil Wears Prada began writing and recording their third album With Roots Above and Branches Below after attending 2008's Warped Tour. Prior to recording and production of it, vocalist Mike Hranica stated "Expect a much heavier and more epic record". Keyboardist, James Baney, also announced that their new album would be more mechanical but still containing their same distinct style whereas drummer, Daniel Williams, claimed that the new album would be "crazier and wilder" than their previous albums. In Autumn 2008, they debuted a new song off their upcoming record while on tour with Underoath, Saosin, The Famine, P.O.S., and Person L. With Roots Above and Branches Below was released May 5, 2009.

Mike Hranica performing at 2009's Warped Tour.

The Devil Wears Prada have performed with A Day to Remember, Sky Eats Airplane and Emarosa. They have also performed at 2009's Warped Tour to promote the release of With Roots Above and Branches Below. On March 13, they released a new song from the album entitled "Dez Moines". Before the release, the pre-order of their third album, the purchaser was given the option to receive several pre-orderd packages. One including a CD/DVD/shirt deal, also includes a card with a code that lets the purchaser download two new unreleased songs, "Dez Moines", and "Assistant to the Regional Manager". Since the release of the album, the sales of it have been very satisfactory which brought it to position #11 on the Billboard 200 for top albums.

On April 22, 2009, the song "Sassafras" was released to their MySpace profile in final promotion for the release of With Roots Above and Branches Below. On the weekend of April 24-26, 2009, the entire album was available as streaming media on Shockhound.com before its official scheduled release date on May 5, 2009. The band launched their official website, on May 5, 2009. The song "Dez Moines" was released as downloadable content for the video game Guitar Hero World Tour on May 7, as well as the song "Hey John, What's Your Name Again?" was released as downloadable content for Rock Band on June 30, 2009. All 11 songs of their new album, With Roots Above and Branches Below, were released onto MySpace Music on Saturday, May 9, 2009. They played at the Main Stage at the 2009 Warped Tour. They played at the iMatter Festival in Elmira, New York and on June 13 and played "Danger: Wildman" for the first time in concert. Vocalist Mike Hranica, managed a clothing company called Shipshape Roolz Clothing in which he sponsored and endorsed bands. A fraction of Shipshape's scale money was donated to charities such as Skate 4 Cancer, as of September 29, 2009 the clothing line was shut down and its online store changed its named to Traditiona, due to "legal issues.

From November 23 to December 21 2009 they toured with All That Remainsand are currently embarked on a tour which is headlined by Killswitch Engage and opened by Dark Tranquillity.At the beginning of 2010, it was announced that they were voted as 2009's Band of the Year by readers of Alternative Press and appeared on the cover.

On February 12, 2010 it was announced that they are in production for a music video for the song "Assistant to the Regional Manager".

Band name

Despite speculations that the band named themselves after the film with the same title, it was actualized that they were formed before the film was released and have explained that their band name is actually derrived from an anti-materialistic mindset, the same moral that is featured in the novel, The Devil Wears Prada.

“	It's the same concept as our lyrics 'emeralds hold no hope' and many many others. What we believe it to mean is that possessions don't matter at all and someday everyone will realize that this is true. When standing before God, he won't care about your sweet Prada scarf or Gucci shoes or whatever. It's a Christian reasoning for the name, we didn't name it to attempt at being fashionable or whatever.	”
Mike Hranica