Devil Met Contention Archives

Devil Met Contention do it in the road (and by “do it” we mean “sleep”) in video for “Wait”

April 30, 2020

It's been too long since we heard from Devil Met Contention. Back in 2018, the dusty Southern-gothic group was hanging up its matching suits and moving toward a more modern, sleeker sound. That year's single, "...

Public Domain: Devil Met Contention performs “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home”

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 15, 2019

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The music video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been he...

Listen to Devil Met Contention “Take A Chance” with bold new sound

Matt Wild

May 18, 2018

Devil Met Contention needed a change."We'd been playing the songs off of our last album for a while," says DMC frontman Ehson Rad. "We did some small tours in the Midwest for them, and then we recorded them...

Exclusive: Suit up for Devil Met Contention’s debut full-length, ‘Fuel The Lights’

Matt Wild

June 27, 2016

//Devil Met Contention cut a distinctive figure in the Milwaukee music scene. Catch them live and it's impossible to miss their impeccably styled suit-and-tie aesthetic, cribbed straight from the dress cod...

It takes two to tango in Devil Met Contention’s longing “Used To Be” video

Tyler Maas

April 22, 2016

//Since last year's short-but-sweet American Times EP, the perpetually-suit-clad gentlemen in Devil Met Contention have been routinely bestowing their genre-melding construct of "dark Americana" all over t...

Exclusive: Make a deal with Devil Met Contention’s new EP, American Times

Matt Wild

February 24, 2015

Ehson Rad has lived in New Mexico, Texas, Michigan, and now Milwaukee. That mileage, and plenty more, permeates American Times, the new EP from Rad and his pitch-black southern gothic outfit Devil Met Contentio...

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