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Devil to Pay Premiere “On and On (in Your Mind)” Video; Tour Starts Oct. 20

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Tripping out on home-grown effects while winding their way through deceptively metallic riffing, Indianapolis four-piece Devil to Pay deliver their signature style in their new video. The song, “On and On (in Your Mind),” comes from their fifth and latest album, A Bend Through Space and Time (review pending), which is out on Ripple Music as the follow-up to 2013’s Fate is Your Muse (review here), their label debut, and emphasizes the core songwriting approach that has always been at the very heart of their sound. Devil to Pay have become one of the most reliable acts in the American Midwest when it comes to offering quality craft of light-on-frills rock and roll, and even as they share guitarist/vocalist Steve Janiak with the more doomly Apostle of Solitude, that remains unchanged.

I’ve done a number of video premieres for Devil to Pay over the last couple years — including one earlier in 2016 for their Motörhead tribute, “Your Inner Lemmy” (posted here) — but there’s yet to be one I haven’t been happy to host, as the basic fact of the matter is I’m a fan of the band, which is Janiak alongside guitarist Rob Hough, bassist/backing vocalist Matt Stokes and drummer/backing vocalist Chad Profigle. They have tour dates coming up this month which will take them through Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee, where they’ll join several other choice acts along the way — Howling GiantDestroyer of LightKin of EttinsOrthodox Fuzz, etc. — and one can only imagine they’ll tape a significant portion of those shows, as is their wont, and use it to make their next video, which if the opportunity comes my way, I’d be glad to premiere as well, or even just put up, because, you know, fandom and all that.

You’ll find the complete list of tour dates under the “On and On (in Your Mind)” clip below. I think you’ll find the song all the more aptly-named for how often its hook repeats in your head after you hear it.

Please enjoy:

Devil to Pay, “On and On (in Your Mind)” official video

Through ten years of soul searching and survival – crawling out from the dank underbelly of the Indianapolis heavy music scene – Devil To Pay eventually established themselves in the underground rock community after signing to Ripple Music to release Fate Is Your Muse in 2013. Recorded in 2015 by Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana, A Bend Through Space and Time picks up where its predecessor left off and further develops Devil To Pay’s songcraft and explorations in heavy, riff-oriented rock and roll. By now, followers of the band should have already heard ‘Your Inner Lemmy’ – the quartet’s fitting tribute to Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister and the first track lifted from this new record – released earlier this year.

It serves as just one of many reference points, dotted across a constellation of hard rock influences at play on this, their best album to date. The band hit the road this October on a US tour (see full list of dates below) in support of their new album A Bend Through Space And Time, out now on Ripple Music.

Devil To Pay 2016 Tour:
October 14th Indianapolis, IN Melody Inn
October 20th Louisville, KY Highlands Taproom w Blind Scryer
October 21st Huntsville, AL Coppertop w Parlangua, the Moose
October 22nd Birmingham, AL the Nick w Parlangua, Firewater Revival
October 23rd New Orleans, LA Parasite Skatepark w Donkey Puncher, AR15, Samm Bones
October 24th Houston, TX Dan Electros w Stonework
October 25th San Antonio, TX Hi-Tones w Curses, Over the Top
October 26th Austin, TX Hotel Vegas w Destroyer of Light, Crypt Trip, Lawman
October 27th Dallas, TX The Door w Kin of Ettins, Crop-Dust, Orthodox Fuzz
October 28th Memphis, TN Hi Tone Cafe w Glorious Abhor, Hellthrasher
October 29th Franklin, TN the Pond w Flummox, Battle Path, Howling Giant

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