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DEVILDRIVER: “OWLS ARE METAL AS FUCK”

 Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 1:15pm by

Here’s the cover art the new DevilDriver album, Pray for Villians – both the regular and special editions. It’s certainly… different.

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  • Mancubus

    Owl ist krieg!

  • Fink

    That second owl has a vagina in the middle of its face.

    • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

      Haha! I would love to see the girl carryin’ that thing around.

    • ughhh

      lol word

  • Produced by Jacob Bannon

    Pray For Talent

  • The Roan

    awesome artwork for such a terrible band

    • earth2tom

      I obviously have taste, as I listen to Cynic, Meshuggah, and Brittney Spears, and I can easily say that Devildriver is the super shit and not, indeed, terrible like you suggest. Their first couple of albums were kinda rough around the edges, but the last album was heavy, tight, groovy, and established the Devildriver sound. It was what the new Lamb of God album should have sounded like.

      • Nelson Mandella

        Your obviously a fucking cunt you mean.

      • Stina

        lol

      • Rik

        I agree with your sentiment that DevilDriver are not terrible. I disagree however that their last album is their best, and I disagree that there was anything wrong with the latest LoG album.

  • Ryd1ZZ

    Not a huge fan of DD but the artwork is pretty cool.

  • jonowev

    Cool as hell.

  • Beered

    The second one kind of reminds me of the cover for The Famine: The Raven and the Reaping (which you all need to check out if ya know what’s good for ya, grindcore with a Southern metal flavor). Same artist maybe?

    • http://www.myspace.com/1033metal Jackson

      great band, not sure I would describe them like that but then again not sure exactly how I would describe them

    • TWOAF

      Woah! Thanks mate. I like them a lot. never heard of them before.

      Not grindcore though. Far from it.

      • Beered

        I’m just reminded of a lot of grindcore bands whenever I hear one of their songs. What would you call them?

        • TWOAF

          Not sure. Death metal maybe.

          Some of their stuff seems pretty metalcore-ish too.

    • HOPKINS: CHRISTIAN FINDER GENERAL

      WARNING! WARNING!

      CHRISTIAN BULLSHIT ALERT!

      I SMELL CHRISTIANS!

      CHECKED OUT THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE FOR THE FAMINE… ALL THE RELATED BANDS ARE CHRISTIAN BANDS, SO STRONGLY SUSPECT THEY ARE TOO…

      REMEMBER: CHRISTIANS ARE NOT METAL.

      CHRISTIANITY IS GAY.

      JESUS IS A CUNT.

      FUCK ALL CHRISTIANS. ALL CHRISTIANS MUST FUCK OFF.

      YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

      • Mancubus

        Whoa what’s with he hate, man? I’m a pagan, I dislike the church strongly but about half of my family’s Christian. Hate the beliefs, not the people.

        • HOPKINS: CHRISTIAN FINDER GENERAL

          YOU ARE NOT A PAGAN YOU ARE A GAY-GAN

          • HOPKINS: CHRISTIAN FINDER GENERAL

            I AM COMING FOR ABOUT HALF YOUR FAMILY.

      • http://www.myspace.com/monotheistmetal Shiv

        You’re so edgy I literally can’t believe it

        • HOPKINS: CHRISTIAN FINDER GENERAL

          CHECKED OUT YOUR PAGE. THE NAME OF YOUR BAND SOUNDS SUSPICIOUSLY CHRISTIAN. ALSO YOU LIST ZAO AS AN INFLUENCE… HMM.. THAT IS ONE FAGGY CHRISTIAN BAND FOR SURE.

          I AM COMING FOR YOU SHIV.

          I AM COMING FOR YOU.

          • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

            I forgive you.

          • Some Random Dude

            Praise Jesus!

      • Noel

        your a fag. grow up. and anyone who considers themselves “pagan” in 2009 is a tool. that means you,buddy below me.

        • Killbaby388

          I’m below you and I am niether pagan or tool!

      • Killbaby388

        Hey FUCK YOU! Christian dickfinder or sucker general asshole!!! I wish you would come and find me!! I’m a christian and I’ll kick the shit out of you and take you to hell to deliver you to the devil myself!!! Cocksucker general pussy!! FUCK YOU!!! Do you even know why they call themselves devildriver?? I do!!! Look it up and tell me! Maybe I’ll let you live if you get the answer right! Don’t fuck with us christians!!!! We’ll have your ass!! Take you out saw style BITCH!!! I never said I was a role model christian!!

        DEVILDRIVER RULES!!!!!
        WHAT’S UP DEZ??????!!!!!!!!!

  • Colin

    Why does everyone here hate Devildriver? They’re awesome

    • The Roan

      because they are indeed not awesome

      • metalguy

        most people hate them cuz dez was in a nu-metal band and this band has some nu- metal influences. if you dont like them thats fine but you shouldnt steriotype nothing against you roan i just felt like saying it here

        • groverXIII

          No, most people hate them because they’re crappy, generic metalcore.

          • devildriver676

            well actually, why don’t you sit back and listen to the music. you wouldn’t call them metalcore if you knew what metalcore was. they’re surely a blend of death metal and melodic groove metal.
            you should give them more credit for the fact that they don’t sound like any other band and have not fallen into the trap of conventional every-day metal. don’t keep your head in the sand for I fear that you might die not giving your ears the pleasure of DevilDriver.
            no hard feelings, just keep it metal

          • groverXIII

            Oh, I’ve listened to DevilDriver… and I can’t really agree that they ‘don’t sound like any other band’. In fact, they sound like Dez realized nu metal was finished and latched onto metalcore (minus teh clean vocals) instead.

      • Colin

        Wow! Thanks for that incredibly insightful piece of information!

        As that guy said, they aren’t metal core, and the labeling/deciding not to like them because of that labeling is retarded.

        And Dez being in Coal Chamber is totally unrelated. This sounds NOTHING like nu metal.

        • groverXIII

          Actually, I labeled them metalcore because that’s what they sound like. Coincidentally, I don’t like them because I listened to them and realized that if they didn’t have the vocalist from Coal Chamber they would have gotten lost a long time ago alongside all the other generic, mediocre metalcore bands out there.

  • http://reaper-x.deviantart.com/ Reaper-X

    So, how many licks does it take?

    • \m/Eluveitie\m/

      That’s what she said

  • cink

    DD bore me. They are listenable though. Got a few standout tracks but otherwise their catalogue is samey.

  • Matt

    As a fan of both Devildriver and woodland critters, I like it. Especially the special edition artwork. Native American influences in the album maybe?

  • Hooligan6989

    lol that’s fuckin’ sweet! i didn’t know owls could be metal, but they definitely are now. lol

  • http://www.myspace.com/monotheistmetal Shiv

    First one is a blatant rip-off of Converge’s “No Heroes,” an album/band that far surpasses anything DevilDriver could possibly achieve.

    • devildriver676

      you honestly think that converge has anything on DD??
      I had never heard of them before I saw this comment and decided to look them up; I couldn’t be more displeased with the unoriginality and disgusting vocal style. I mean, I don’t know how many people can listen to that with the option of DD in hand.
      in my opinion, I would never choose them over DD in a million years

      • http://www.myspace.com/monotheistmetal Shiv

        Unoriginality? Converge are the pioneers of the genre that bands like DD ruined. Sorry they don’t sound commercial and accessible enough for you, but without Converge DD probably wouldn’t exist as you know them.

      • Nelson Mandella

        hahahahahaha devildriver676 is obviously Dez Fafara himself!

        Fuck Dez you fucking stupid cunt.

        P.S. I saw Dez Fafara in person once and the guy is lterally less than like 5 feet tall, no joke the guy is a fucking midget.

  • Aaron

    Awful fucking covers. I am really looking forward to this album though.

  • metalguy

    album cover looks really amateur

  • hackman

    I honestly can’t understand how anyone likes this band. Dez is a royal douche and the band sucks donkey dick. Not even these bad ass owls could change my mind.

    • metalguy

      dez is a douche but i still love em

  • \m/Eluveitie\m/

    Rush – Fly By Night

  • groverXIII

    I suppose as long as people are buying Affliction t-shirts and getting tribal armband tattoos, DevilDriver will have a market.

    • earth2tom

      Your clever, but I wear a suit and tie everyday, have no tribal tats, and still manage to be part of the market for DD. I just happen to judge music by it’s most important ingredient, which we all know is the actual music and not the fads that it spawns. There was a time, like a year ago, when people wouldn’t have been caught dead in tight pants and converse high tops. Fuck fashion! Long live music.

      • Nelson Mandella

        You wear a suit and tie everyday!!!!

        HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        You’re a Cunt.

      • groverXIII

        I’ve judged DevilDriver by their music… it’s the kind of stuff that the people I described listen to. Just because you listen to it too means nothing except that you’re a fan of an extremely average band.

    • Colin

      How do you even come up with that stereotype? I’ve yet to see 1 type of person constantly replicated among devildriver crowds.

      Unlike the popular crap like fashion core, people don’t listen to this based on apparel.

  • ozzyzak

    The first cover looks pretty fucking sweet. Second one is way lame though.

  • taog36

    wow people amaze me with how dumb they are, mindlessly calling anyting they dont like metalcore. devildriver has no whiney ass clean vocals and no breakdowns. they are new wave, or groove metal, or even just metal but theres no “hardcore” in their music to get the sufex of core added on there.

    anyways about the albumes, i dont like them, dont match their previus 3 albume covers, wheres the devildriver symbol at? look at the progress they have been making from their first 3 albumes, if they continue to follow that curve, this will be an amazing cd

    • earth2tom

      Agree in totality. It is also funny to me that the same people that bitch about Dez’s roots in Nu-Metal will be first in line, when Nu-Metal enters it’s nostalgic era and becomes cool again, saying that they liked Dez better before he sold out and went all metal.

    • Colin

      Agreed

      • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

        I lol’d when I read that, only ’cause I know it’s true. Fuck people and their hypocritical bullshit.

  • Sammy

    You guys need a new headline writer. Do you have a template that says, “___________ is metal as fuck”?

    • \m/Eluveitie\m/

      As it is they’ve only got 4 articles, they just cut and paste band names and members

  • Nate L.

    i’m excited

  • DemonicLemming

    First cover is sort of interesting, second is just….no. Don’t give a flying fuck about the personality of the members, I just like the music Devildriver makes.

    • 24trey

      100% agreed

  • uLy

    that first cover is pretty nice

  • ughhh

    owls ARE metal as fuck!

  • terrybeans84

    good band. I enjoy these guys alot. At the 04 ozzfest these guys had the biggest pit out of anyone on the second stage and I do realize that Slipknot and Lamb of God were on second stage this year.

  • COSK!

    I dont know about devil driver, but owls are metal as fuck. just sayin.

  • Aya

    Like their music.
    Uh, the artwork, why does Mogwai come to my mind? lol

  • Scott Danger

    I’ve heard of jackelopes, but a bull-owl [haha, should be called a bowel]? Dunno. Still really badass. As for Devildriver, I never got into it. Maybe it’ll be alright?

  • http://enterthegoatlady.com goatlady

    I can’t believe, all these bullshit comments, and not one person said “O RLY?”

    And I thought this was the internet.

  • Carnage9

    definitely better than their other artwork. that shit was boring.

  • Cowboy From Hell

    Wow. I really used to love this site, but now i realize that all it seems to be anymore is some lame ass site where we have douche ass music snobs who hate on any band who changes their sound a little or maybe even decides to look a bit different. As a Conservative, and a staunch lifelong Metalhead it pains me to say this but WTF!!!! can we not just cut the gradeschool bullshit and learn to appreciate the fucking musicianship anymore. you people are fucking jokes!!!!

    • Cowboy From Hell

      Whups..Meant to say it pains me to say to fellow Metalheads…you assholes are still fucking jackasses…

  • Killbaby388

    All I can say is that DEVILDRIVER RULES!!!! I’m going on forty and I’ve always been a metalhead but very picky in what I listen to! You got to have something different for each band. Not the same old metallica shit. At least Dave mustaine is getting back to Megadeth roots. Devildriver is truly unique! There is no label you can put on their music. It’s metal but what category. There is none for Devildriver. Just KICK ASS BANG YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE STAGE METAL!!!!! There is not a better band out there!!! Cavalera Conspiracy or Chimaira might rank close, but there is no one better todat in metal than Devidriver!!!! Dez, Hit me up man! I would like to work some shows.
    Later metalheads. Keep metal alive!!!

  • Brutaldeth

    Fuck all the haters, DevilDriver kicks ass!

  • MoJo

    not trying to hate or anything, cause their sound ain’t bad, but why does that album cover remind me of bohemian grove?

  • http://www.badassowls.com Tiberious Cashflow

    I think owls are bad ass. If being metal makes then bad ass then so be it.

  • Criticize the bad

    wow… you all need lives… Commenting on a band that is possibly one of the best. I put them in my top 100, and I listen to metalcore, this isn’t metalcore, the guitar, isn’t metalcore. so get over it and just listen to it.

  • Downoninit

    DevilDriver is metal, and their not a Christian band, they might have Christian influence. A ton of metal does. You don’t have to be satanic of pagan to enjoy or play good metal. And you assholes that think so are just a bunch of possers. Get a real life an stop conforming to shit. Go listen to your Linkin Park and think you’re cool when you’re not even close.