Linkin Park's 'Hybrid Theory' Changed My Life - The Devil Wears Prada

American metalcore mainstays The Devil Wears Prada recently dropped their brand new album ColorDecay. Their eighth full-length, Color Decay sees the band strengthen their already tight grip on dynamics,  juxtaposing melody with chaos, creating an immersive and impactful listening experience. Crafted in remote hideaways in California and Wisconsin, the self-produced Color Decay enabled The Devil Wears Prada to fully embrace their individual and collective creative potential.  Lead by singles Salt and Broken, it is the natural continuation of the soundscape the band has been developing since 2005. 

Speaking about Broken the band reveals "Writing Broken started by drawing on a specific memory of a panic attack, but slowly evolved into something more broad.The song aims to capture that feeling of desperately not wanting to talk about your problems, but at the same time, just wanting everyone to already understand."

Broken is one of many tracks on Color Decay where The Devil Wears Prada extends themselves in ways we've not seen before, a quality that gives the follow-up to 2019's much-heralded The Act, a decidedly fresh feeling. 

To celebrate the release of Color Decay we had a brief chat with vocalist Jeremy DePoyster who gave us the lowdown on the album that changed his life, Linkin Park's game-changing debut full-length Hybrid Theory. 

The Album That Changed My Life - The Devil Wears Prada's Jeremy DePoyster on Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory

"The album that changed my life would have to be Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park. Back then I listened to a lot of stuff on the radio, I had Backstreet Boys CDs and stuff like that, but a friend of mine gave me a burned copy of Hybrid Theory in seventh grade. I was so obsessed with it. I just listened to it on repeat for like a year straight, just because I loved the keyboards and the production and the guitars and everything about it."

"Hybrid Theory changed the way I thought about music. I actually ended up getting to sing a song with them at the Warped Tour about seven or eight years ago. That was a very fanboy, surreal moment!"

Listen to The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay