The band’s new album Bone Palace Ballet delivers the power crunch that previous albums do, but seems to up it a notch and moves more in a grand scale and scope (a’la My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade). Lead singer Craig Owens’ vocals soar on tracks like “Lexington” and “A Letter to Janelle.” The new record deals with themes of obsession and blood-lust and wails on songs like the humorously titled “If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink.”

Bone Palace Ballet has received loved from Alternative Press and Blender Magazine already this year, and is now approaching the 100,000 mark in album sales (no small feat for the indie label Equal Vision Records). Mix that with the nearly 200,000 now sold for their previous album All’s Well That Ends Well and Chiodos has quickly become the cash cow for the label.

Along for the ride on the tour is the Dayton, Ohio band The Devil Wears Prada. They may not look as good as the “Prada” movie star Anne Hathaway, but the guys in the band deliver a ferocious intensity that has helped the band jump on many bills. After holding their own with the viciously rude crowd (just ask poor death-core rapper Necro) at this year’s Sounds Of the Underground, the band survived and is promoting their new Plagues album. The guys in the band have eased up on the screaming on the new record, to add a little more melody on the tracks “Hey John, What’s Your Name Again?” and Chiodos’ Owens joins the band on the cut “You Can’t Spell Crap Without 'C'.” Maybe a slam at hip-hop, maybe not?

Either way, The Devil Wears Prada guitars some solid shredding courtesy of Chris Rubey and Jeremy DePoyster that shows skills well beyond their years while lead singer Mike Hranica seems to find his happy place as a vocalist on this record. Expect to some hear songs from their Dear Love: A Beautiful Dischord as well. Don’t worry guys, we won't hold the Ohio thing against you or anything…

The tour comes to a triumphant end as it rolls into Clutch Cargo's and becomes the closest thing to a hometown show that Chiodos will have (unless you play the Machine Shop for maybe 6 nights in a row). And kiddies, bad news, the show is already sold out. So, bug a friend from Davison or maybe you have a friend from Dayton that can help you out for the show. I’d suggest working on some connections to see one of the biggest shows hitting Clutch this year.

Chiodos and The Devil Wears Prada will be playing Clutch Cargo’s on Friday, November 30^th. Tickets are SOLD OUT, but check with www.ticketmaster.com to see if any tickets do become available. Both bands will tour throughout 2008. .