30% off Black Friday Super Sale at the DTP Webstore

BLACK FRIDAY SUPER SALE this weekend at the DTP webstore! use code DTPBLKFRI for 30% off your order. Ends Monday at midnight!
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New Tshirts, CDs, Koozies and cassettes (hand-numbered, limited edition of 50 which include an unreleased Bonus Track!)
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order now: https://deviltopay.bigcartel.com/
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Great Xmas gifts for that underground Riff Rock aficionado!

New Album Review up at Desert Highways.com

“… fat tones are slathered over the LP like a good barbecue sauce on ribs and then washed down with a some cold beer.”

Read the entire review at http://deserthighways.com/2019/11/27/devil-to-pay-forever-never-or-whenever-album-review/

New Album Review up at La Habitacion 235

A great review up from our friends at La Habitación 235!

Read the original (in Spanish) here: http://www.lahabitacion235.com/musica/novedades/devil-to-pay-forever-never-or-whenever-2019.html

November 19, 2019 Ruben Herrera
(loosely translated from Spanish)

From the heart of Indianapolis, we enjoy on this Tuesday the good feeling for this American brand of heavy rock, the good guys of Devil To Pay and this “Forever, Never Or Whenever” that has been come down as the sixth installment, available from the reliable seal of Ripple Music since last November 8.
Veterans of your lineage, remember that Devil to Payh’s activity started from the beginning of the millennium (about 2002 if I remember correctly), little by little they have been making a name within the North American underground scene, and that beyond the 6 albums they contributed, their intrusions in festivals such as Stoner Hands Of Doom, until they reached the Doomed & Stoned fests, have made clear these four Indiana rockers have perfected their brand with the best combination of hard and dirty rock, with the heaviest riffs.
What are we going to fool ourselves for? “Forever, Never Or Whenever” is not a record that invents anything new, it is not a precursor called to mark an era, but it is a disc that fits perfectly in the discography, the type that gives the listener, focused on their brand, exactly what he wants. On this basis, it’s not that “Forever, Never Or Whenever” is the bands most experimental album, but the album carries a unique sound while staying on a pathway that they should never leave.
I stick to these words because if we enter into comparisons of the previous installment, “A Bend Through Space And Time”, the quartet is darker this time around. It is true that their style has always carried that characteristic heaviness in many formations of the genre, but the compositions are more gloomy than ever. The guitar lines offer that halo of darkness in the middle of a quite smoking environment, as if to capture it as one of the great attractions of “Forever, Never Or Whenever”.
With all this, we must not ignore the chemistry of its components by branching off into different rock vibes, but always with a flow of emotions and various changes of rhythm to fill more nuances of his new work, and there are always different firmaments for which to obtain different shades. From “Light Sentence” or “The Cautionary Tale Of Yen Sid” and their winks toward doom, to move to the other side of the album with its most recognized signatures and its best punch in cuts like “Anti-Gravity” (huge album closure) or “The Devil’s Barking Up Your Tree.” Extravagant structures orchestrated by the most characteristic riff. “Get On Down” for its part, heads to the toughest rock of Devil To Pay, while “The Pendulum” faces the final part of this new volume at its most suspenseful.
Let’s say diversification is the most notable peculiarity of “Forever, Never Or Whenever.” The North American Devil to Pay’s new album surprises both new and old students again and that is perhaps the magic formula of these tunes, without starting a rock revolution, is the one to be most successful of their many experiments, in diverse styles or winks to the many traces carried in the heavy sound. For the rest, the gravitational engine of Indianapolis continues to carry its thrust with a new impulse towards unknown directions and colonizing intentions. This may not be their best album but it is still a great continuation for a discography that offers a whole watercolor of colors. A disc for the most staunch follower of Devil To Pay.

Veterans of your lineage, remember that Devil to Payh’s activity started from the beginning of the millennium (about 2002 if I remember correctly), little by little they have been making a name within the North American underground scene, and that beyond the 6 albums they contributed, their intrusions in festivals such as Stoner Hands Of Doom, until they reached the Doomed & Stoned fests, have made clear these four Indiana rockers have perfected their brand with the best combination of hard and dirty rock, with the heaviest riffs.
What are we going to fool ourselves for? “Forever, Never Or Whenever” is not a record that invents anything new, it is not a precursor called to mark an era, but it is a disc that fits perfectly in the discography, the type that gives the listener, focused on their brand, exactly what he wants. On this basis, it’s not that “Forever, Never Or Whenever” is the bands most experimental album, but the album carries a unique sound while staying on a pathway that they should never leave.
I stick to these words because if we enter into comparisons of the previous installment, “A Bend Through Space And Time”, the quartet is darker this time around. It is true that their style has always carried that characteristic heaviness in many formations of the genre, but the compositions are more gloomy than ever. The guitar lines offer that halo of darkness in the middle of a quite smoking environment, as if to capture it as one of the great attractions of “Forever, Never Or Whenever”.
With all this, we must not ignore the chemistry of its components by branching off into different rock vibes, but always with a flow of emotions and various changes of rhythm to fill more nuances of his new work, and there are always different firmaments for which to obtain different shades. From “Light Sentence” or “The Cautionary Tale Of Yen Sid” and their winks toward doom, to move to the other side of the album with its most recognized signatures and its best punch in cuts like “Anti-Gravity” (huge album closure) or “The Devil’s Barking Up Your Tree.” Extravagant structures orchestrated by the most characteristic riff. “Get On Down” for its part, heads to the toughest rock of Devil To Pay, while “The Pendulum” faces the final part of this new volume at its most suspenseful.
Let’s say diversification is the most notable peculiarity of “Forever, Never Or Whenever.” The North American Devil to Pay’s new album surprises both new and old students again and that is perhaps the magic formula of these tunes, without starting a rock revolution, is the one to be most successful of their many experiments, in diverse styles or winks to the many traces carried in the heavy sound. For the rest, the gravitational engine of Indianapolis continues to carry its thrust with a new impulse towards unknown directions and colonizing intentions. This may not be their best album but it is still a great continuation for a discography that offers a whole watercolor of colors. A disc for the most staunch follower of Devil To Pay.

New Album Review up at Rockway.gr

Thanks to the good people at Rockway.gr for the review of “Forever, Never or Whenever”. You can read the original version (in Greek) here: https://rockway.gr/nees-kyklofories/item/24053-devil-to-pay-forever-never-or-whenever

Loosely translated version:

With the “discovery” of heavy rock sound, many have begun to decipher its features, and so on, by forgetting the essence of the thing, which is music and whether you like it, express it, and win you over. Devil To Pay is here to remind us of this, with their new, sixth please, song entitled “Forever, Never Or Whenever”.

American heavy rockers, founded in 2002 in Indianapolis, USA, and having 17 years in the “kurbet”, have only 5 albums to show. “Forever, Never Or Whenever”, is their sixth recording effort and perhaps the most atmospheric of them all.

Devil To Pay may say heavy rock, but listening carefully, you’ll find elements of southern rock, heavy metal and sludge in their sound. Still, it’s a fact that psychedelic as well as atmospheric rock and metal play an important role in this album.

The American metallers certainly do not rely on the past to draw sound topics. In “Forever, Never Or Whenever”, it seems clear that the band wants to “do their part” by creating a separate album, beyond the labels, playing what they really love and enjoy. With fuzzy touches and with the atmosphere being Devil To Pay’s top priority, the album looks more in its time than it was influenced by its heavy rock ancestors. After all, “Heave Ho” is a standard for modern radio hits without the desire to become pop rock, but it retains the band’s rock / metal culture.

Another element that made the band fit into their sound is this atmospheric psychedelia that was first introduced by the masters Pink Floyd, Doors and Led Zeppelin. “The Cautionary Tale Of Yen Sid” and “The Pendulum” are the most notable examples of this psychedelic rock / metal style of Devil To Pay and two of the album’s most notable compositions. The band has also put some alternative rock elements to their sound, with “Tap Dancing On Your Grave” and “Light Sentence” reminiscent of Placebo and The Cure. The album also has the modern rock ‘n’ roll feel of “Imminent Demise” and the space rock aesthetic of “Anti-Gravity Depravity”.

In the end, I think Devil To Pay’s attempt to create something different from the usual heavy rock albums is a complete success, as “Forever, Never Or Whenever” is a heavy rock album, but with a mix of different sound ideas that seem to complement each other. It’s a modern heavy rock / metal album, with remarkable compositions and modern fuzzy “ideology”. “Forever, Never Or Whenever” is one of the best albums in its history, especially in today’s rock and metal scene, as it has been. I think you’ll enjoy it very much, with a beer in hand.

DEVIL TO PAY to Play Hi-Fi Indy Battle of the Bands November 20th

DEVIL TO PAY will be performing at the Hi-Fi Indy on Wednesday, November 20th for the 2019 Battle of the Bands. More info can be found on the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/596027910933842/

“Forever, Never or Whenever” Released Today

Thanks to the good people at Ripple Music, DEVIL TO PAY’s “Forever, Never or Whenever” is available today! You can head over to the Ripple Music bandcamp to listen: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/forever-never-or-whenever