DevilDriver - Pray for Villains Album Review

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  • Artist: DevilDriver
  • Title: Pray for Villains
  • Album: Pray for Villains
  • Track: 1
  • Year: 2009
  • Length: 4:03 minutes (8.93 MB)
  • Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 307Kbps (VBR)

DevilDriver is back again with the new album Pray For Villians (2009). The album contains most of the pieces you would find in a DevilDriver album. All the band members pieces are there, but there's something missing in the DevilDriver Pray for Villains album.

Pieces include Dez Fafara loud vocals, Mike Spreitzer and Jeff Kendrick crazy fast guitar riffs, Jon Miller bass and John Boecklin running the double bass on the drums. You just need to take all of these elements to DevilDriver and bring them down a notch.

I'm not saying that they have gone cold or soft, their music energy and distortion is down a tone from their past albums.

Don't get me wrong this Album is Awesome and continues to grow into your regular playlist of music. Songs like Fate Stepped In, Pray For Villians and Bitter Pill are still fast riffs, angry screams and lots of energy. More like their past albums. The album as a whole doesn't have the energy or distortion as their other albums.

This album does show the band's increase of talent and maturity. This new album's music seems to come together better than any of their other albums. That can only mean that they are becoming better musicians and more comfortable in playing with each other, knowing everyone's styles and abilities.

Dez vocals have a cleaner tone and less distortion in the Pray for Villains album. I wonder if they were going for a bit of a different style or if his vocals are wearing out on him, like so many of our respectable hardcore singers. With being at the age of 43 and singing in the metal industry for 15 years (1994) you can't blame the guy.

Just keep on bringing the Metal!

Track List: 01 Pray For Villains
02 Pure Sincerity
03 Fate Stepped In
04 Back With A Vengeance
05 I've Been Sober
06 Resurrection Blvd.
07 Forgiveness Is A Six Gun
08 Waiting For November
09 It's In The Cards
10 Another Night In London
11 Bitter Pill
12 Teach Me To Whisper
13 I See Belief

Special Edition Tracks:
14 Self-Affliction
15 Dust Be The Destiny
16 Damning The Heavens
17 Wasted Years

DVD

01 Documentary
02 Interviews

Average: 4 (1 vote)
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Submitted by Amarak on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 5:17pm.
I dont agree with anyone else belittling anyone else (probably why he posted as Anon anyway). But this album definately is one GIANT step above from their previous ones. Cleaner and just as brutal if not more. I hope for DevilDriver that this isnt their last album because from the way this sounds compared to Last Kind Words... It can only get better from here.
Falling ideals Broken seals March to the shore You are a killer!
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Submitted by ariesmike on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 12:07pm.
For all you morons out there,the new devildriver SUCKS ASS!!!!!!I have always wanted to see devildriver but after hearing this new album I have decided I will not waste my time.I think Dez is working his way back to pussy core nu metal type stuff,especially seeing how hes planning on getting back together with COAL CHAMBER,which is where he belongs.Im sorry folks but this is gonna be the last devildriver album.Which is sad because there last 3 albums kick ass!! Its called selling out folks.It eventually happens to every good mainstream metal band.Unfortunately it has happened to devildriver,not only that but dez writes as if hes a christian now.If thats the case then Im definately done with them.On a brighter note though,according to roadrunner records,we can all expect a new coal chamber album sometime next year,that would be great cause that would put dez back on top as a nu metal act,as far as a metal/thrash act -Devildriver is never gonna be on top again.Especially with this new release of mainstream CRAP!!
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Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 10:07am.
Who ever wrote that review, fuck knows, a nobody, just like me. He got a few things right, they are getting better with age, the sound is so much cleaner! Is that bad? I think dez needed to tone it down abit after the last kind words, in this album you can hear and feel his heart and soul pouring through. That equals power! Draws new listeners in. As a fan I was always gonna buy the album anyway. Guitars are sick, hope they pull it of on stage. Miller is still Miller, just better. Boecklin has etched his name in stone as one of metals finest. who teaches this bloke?! The Last kind words had the commercial clouds over California, the killer groove of head on to heartache. The fatness of monsters of the deep. The rest was good but nothing compared to the fury of our makers hand! That And pray for villains are devildrivers finest! Fuck the charts, commercial sells. But these boys know there roots. Keep on keeping on DevilDriver! Perth 18.12.09 is gonna be sick.
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Submitted by J. Deathscript on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 2:55pm.

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Submitted by J. Deathscript on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 5:20pm.

Dez Fafara is old- damn straight! I hope I can rock that hard when I am his age, even if the rockin' isn't as hard as it used to be..... Good song choice too.

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