The Devil Wears Prada released Flowers on November 14, 2025, through Solid State Records. Their ninth studio album followed 2022's Color Decay, with a wider circle of songwriters helping shape songs about anxiety, dissatisfaction and the difficulty of finding peace after getting what you thought you wanted.
The name arrived well into the work. Mike Hranica told Metal Insider in an interview published in November 2025 that much of the album had taken shape before it had a title. Writing vocals for “Where the Flowers Never Grow” helped the idea click: he remembered the pleasure of finding that floral image inside a metalcore song. The band introduced the track alongside “Wave” in August 2025, pairing them in director Wyatt Clough's short film, “That Same Place Where The Flowers Never Grow.”
Those two songs approached the album's central unease from different directions. In the release announcement, guitarist and vocalist Jeremy DePoyster described “Where the Flowers Never Grow” as a reckoning with the emptiness that can persist away from the stage, even when a career looks successful from outside. “Wave” turned toward accepting uncertainty. In Solid State's album biography, Hranica explained its premise as learning to give up control over a life that won't follow a plan.
The recording process gave the band room to work together before opening the sessions to other collaborators. They spent three weeks in a rented house in Arkansas, building the album with keyboardist Jonathan Gering producing. Gering, DePoyster and Hranica then made writing trips to Los Angeles. Gering's role reflected a longer change inside The Devil Wears Prada. Hranica had once written all the lyrics, but explained in the Metal Insider interview that Gering began supplying words for his own compositions during The Act. “Chemical,” whose lyrics Gering wrote in full, was one result. By Flowers, Hranica described the writing as “deeply autobiographical,” particularly for Gering and DePoyster. The record's accounts of stress and discontent drew on more than the experiences of the singer who had originally handled that job.
An unexpected session produced one of its clearest examples of collaboration. DePoyster told Music Feeds in December 2025 that a writer they were supposed to meet in Los Angeles had confused the dates. The person booked to operate the computer was there, though, and suggested starting a song together. That became “Everybody Knows.” DePoyster explained that successful collaborations on the previous record had encouraged more outside sessions, giving the band ideas it might not reach alone.
The song's video involved another unplanned change. Hranica and DePoyster had expected a bright coastal setting at a location in Calabasas, but fog obscured the view on their filming day. With the location booked for only that day, they went ahead. The grey setting in the finished “Everybody Knows” video came from the weather they encountered on location.
