THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Announces 'Back To The Roots' Club Tour

This summer, Rockstar Energy Drink partners with one of the brightest rising stars in the metalcore world, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, who will play the biggest venues of their career, and probably the smallest. Twenty-five thousand screaming kids one night, then 250 hot and sweaty fans the next. A much-anticipated venture for a band that regularly plays to sold-out crowds of 1500-2500.

Voted 2009's "Band of the Year" by the readers of Alternative Press, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA — vocalist Mike Hranica, guitarist/vocalist Jeremy DePoyster, guitarist Chris Rubey, bassist Andy Trick, keyboardist James Baney, and drummer Daniel Williams — will tour relentlessly this summer, interspersing performances at ten major, outdoor festivals with multiple nights headlining small, intimate clubs.

The "Back to the Roots" club dates will kick off on Monday, June 28 with the first of two nights at The Basement in Columbus, OH, and play 40-plus "roots" shows through to the end of August. Joining THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA on all "Back to the Roots" dates will be MISS MAY I and YOUR DEMISE. Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 10 and can be purchased through THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA's web site or MySpace page.

"One of the primary elements of the 'Back to the Roots Tour'," Hranica said, "is playing a few 'Dear Love' songs that we have not played in a long time, and probably will not play again or anytime soon. We have not built the precise set list yet, and I know it will not entirely be composed of older 'Dear Love' songs, but there will definitely be more in there than what we usually do."

One highly-anticipated stop on THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA's summer trek will be their career-first show in Tokyo on August 8. The band will be part of the lineup for 2010's Summer Sonic festival at Marine Stadium in Tokyo, playing in front of their biggest audience ever — 60,000 people. Most of the band's U.S. festival performances will be at Christian music festivals (all members of the band are Christians) and will include Ohio's Alive 10 Festival (23,000),Milwaukee's Summerfest (10,000),Cornerstone Farm in Georgia (15,000),and Minnesota's Sonshine Festival (20,000).

The major summer festivals and "Back to the Roots" tour will come on the heels of the band's first-ever headline tour of South America in May, and will be in support of their latest album, "With Roots Above and Branches Below". Released in May 2009, the album debuted at No. 11 on The Billboard 200 chart and set off a series of events that lead to a huge break-out year: slots on the Warped Tour main stage, the Rockstar Taste of Chaos and Sounds of the Underground festivals, co-headlining the November/December, 27-date Napalm & Noise Tour, main support on the just-completed KILLSWITCH ENGAGE tour, and cover features in Outburn, HM, AMP, Revolver and Alternative Press. Live, the six-piece THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA presents a powerful intensity that many other bands never quite achieve, with savage riffs, sinewy guitar melodies, thunderous beats, manic synths and an assault of abrasive vocals.

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