video shoot this Saturday 3/6/10

DTP will be shooting a video this Saturday at Locals Only, 2449 E 56th St, Indianapolis. if you’d like to be an extra or know someone else who would, we’re asking everyone to show up at 3pm sharp. RSVP to steve@deviltopay.net

admission is free. should take about an hour or so

thanks!

DTP’s HEAVILY EVER AFTER cracks top 5 ‘most added’ at Metal Radio!

This week (2.24.10), Devil to Pay’s third album, HEAVILY EVER AFTER was the 4th most added metal record at radio reporting magazine FMQB, behind such heavyweights as High On Fire and Bullet For My Valentine. It was also the 5th most added at college music reporter CMJ’s metal adds.

Among those to champion the album were WRIF in Detroit, KROX in Austin, TX, WHEB in Port Smith, NH, WYBB in Charleston and WCHZ in Augusta, GA.

You can view the most added records for this week at FMQB here.

HEAVILY EVER AFTER was produced with Ryan Adkins at Azmyth Recording in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Blabbermouth review of “Heavily Ever After”

With all the attention being paid (and rightfully so) to Indianapolis heavy purveyors THE GATES OF SLUMBER, hopefully a little limelight will splash over onto DEVIL TO PAY, their unsung neighbors. These guys have been dropping lead anchors of slow, soulful, melodic heavy rock for a good while now, evolving from sludgy one-trick-ponies into ambitious, dynamic players and writers. On third album “Heavily Ever After” they issue forth their most mature, fully-realized, and ass-kicking disc to date.

Those familiar with the band’s typical sound may want to skip to track two, lest the full-throttle “Distemper” cause consternation — it’s a barn-burner, a raging statement of intent and a fine opener to blow the doors off. DEVIL TO PAY still spend a good bit of time in low gear, though, on cuts like “When All Is Said and Done” and the tense, crushing “Troglodyte Jive”. They rattle it down to almost CROWBAR levels of anguished plod, without losing any energy, always showcasing the melodic yowl of frontman Steve Janiak’s voice and the band’s overall sense of hooks and dynamics.

Really, there’s not much separating DEVIL TO PAY from mass appeal — anyone into SOUNDGARDEN’s more metallic moments would surely dig these cavernous tones and earnest, melodic, accessible vocals. Slot that band’s influence next to a little bit of groove from DOWN or mid-90’s COC, add some SABBATH riff worship, and you’re close to the mark. What makes them special is their effortless hooks — a song like “Morningstar” isn’t your typical radio hit fare, but it’s got a chorus that’ll burrow into your brain and set up shop for days there. So many bands nail the earthmoving tone, but can’t write a song to save their lives — DEVIL TO PAY do both, and make it look damn easy, delivering weighty, underground-approved riffs with stuff you can sing along to, as well.

From the rockier “High Horse” to ponderous epic closer “Zealots”, DEVIL TO PAY bring their A-game for “Heavily Ever After”. It’s doom for classic rock guys… stoner rock with songs… and it’s a potent, bad-ass collection of tunes that, in a just world, would be blaring out of open van windows on highways nationwide for the next twenty or thirty summers. Give ‘em a shot.

- Keith Bergman

you can read the review on Blabbermouth here

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Festival of Fiends cancelled

Ultimate Horror Convention: Festival of Fiends, which was to take place on the north side of Indianapolis this weekend (and was to feature Devil to Pay at the afterparty on Saturday) has been cancelled. The cancellation notice was posted on the festival’s Myspace page. No other information or instructions for refunds on advanced tickets have been offered. Apologies to everyone who was planning on attending.

Stonerrock.com review of “Heavily Ever After”

Review by John Pegoraro
click to read the review at Stonerrock.com

It’d be cool to say that with their third album, Indianapolis’ Devil to Pay will finally hit the big time, but I have the sinking feeling that this four-piece will still be relegated to “local legend”/”should be bigger” status. Such is life in the trenches of underground riff rock. I’m sure the band’s well aware of its destiny.

Still, it’s not for a lack of trying. Sure, the band doesn’t help maintain momentum by taking its time between recordings – three years have passed since Cash Is King and six since debut Thirty Pieces of Silver – and chewing through guitarists (new guy Rob Hough is their fourth) can’t be good either, but as far as songs go, Devil to Pay has always not only consistently delivered, but they’ve also gotten better with each release. They may have started off as a more traditional stoner rock band, but they’ve grown into their own sound, finding the common ground between classic rock, classic doom, and classic metal.

That’s a whole heapin’ of classic, and it’s reflected best in songs like “Distemper,” “When All Is Said and Done,” “Troglodyte Jive,” “Snake Charmer,” and “Zealots.” With frontman Steve Janiak’s John Garcia-like howl and his and Hough’s combined guitars supported by a rhythmic wall-of-sound from bassist Matt Stokes and drummer Chad Prifogle, these tracks (and to a slightly lesser extent, the other eight) show the band has a knack for heavy grooves that reverberate for days. I’d go on, but coming up with flowery ways of saying, “This is kick ass” goes against the band’s straightforward approach. Ergo, understand that this kicks a serious amount of ass.

Sure, they could’ve trimmed Heavily After After down to a more economical ten numbers, but I wouldn’t want to be the one choosing which song to cut (even the lesser “Mancuerda” is saved by clever, nonsensical lyrics like “swim through the mayonnaise”). At any rate, Heavily Ever After proves that these local legends should be bigger. Recommended.