Posts Tagged ‘devin townsend’

If Devin’s hyperactive twitter account is to be believed (and why not, the man’s been supposedly drug free for the last couple of years now), his entire catalog will be seeing the light of day again in the vinyl format.

Wow…the WHOLE dt catalog is being released on Vinyl! Ocean Machine and Terria first, then the rest over the next 4 months!

Cool news for those of you out there who are both DT and vinyl fans. You can of course follow Devin and get your twitter flooded by his 3424567 daily tweets by going to his page, @dvntownsend.

Continuing the media frenzy and all out whore fest that started ever since he announced this 4 album concept thingy, The Dev has released two interesting videos.

The first one is of course the video for “Bend it like Bender”, a song from his most recent outing, “Addicted”. The video itself is pretty cool looking, sorta mixing some cel-shaded Modern Warfarey looking visuals with anime or some shit. The song is… alright I guess. But then again, that entire album is… alright I guess. Check it out:

Now the second video promises to be the first in a series that will focus far beyond things beyond things. It’s awesome:

A while ago I talked on the show about a Christmas postcard I got from HevyDevy records and how it was actually signed by The Dev himself. I of course was met with disbelief by my cohort, because he is a grumpy old man who does not believe in pen technology. He accused the signature of not being actually from Devin or it being printed on the postcard and not hand-signed.

Well in this video you can clearly see that Devin actually signs stuff himself, and that his signature is definitely the one present on my postcard:

Here’s a picture of the back of my postcard for comparison purposes:

Ha!

From Devin Townsend’s twitter:

Man, if you were 37 years old and got busted masturbating while staying at your folks house, that would probably totally suck. yup. Totally.

Devin Townsend quit all conventional drugs (tobacco/pot/booze) but has already picked up a new one: Twitter.

This dude does nothing in his life but record albums and post in Twitter.

Saw this posted by Dr. Dick on Facebook, relating Devin Townsend’s upcoming “Addicted” album:

And then saw this one while browsing around on that page:

Custom hand-drawn cover art by The Dev himself? Holy Shit.

You can check out the new “Addicted” album teaser The Dev has posted on his MySpace.

Remember to purchase at least 5 shirts a day so I can get enough money to buy both these packs.

Just a couple of Minutes ago on his official twitter Devin Townsend released some info on plans for his upcoming tour.

This man is releasing 3 albums back to back, and is now going to go on tour and release a new EP every 6 months so his show doesn’t get stale. How long is he planning on touring?

I’m thinking that now I’m going to be touring, that I should just release a new and different ep each 6 months as promotion for the shows.

Addicted is a great record, but just more material for live as opposed to something I feel the need to cling to.

I started rehearsing a fast and heavy ep, some reworked Physicist stuff, and the best ‘songs’ off deconstruction, could track it in December

And then it would be part of the show. I’ve get a new age thing, an acoustic thing, a wanky guitar thing… a new ep every 6 months?

It would keep intersted musically, keep the identity fluid, and give me tons of new stuff to play. The industry has definitely changed.

If the new music could be promotion for the show…cool! Addicted is just this 6 month periods contribution…

STOKED!

I’m back gice. Expect regular episodes from now on and maybe some Z&R if I can find the inspiration.

In Metal news, Devin Townsend is almost ready to release the second album in his 4-part concept thingy. This one’s called “Addicted”. Dunno why. Devin describes it as a straight up, no bullshit rocking album:

Musically, Addicted is along the lines of the big, wall of sound hard rock / heavy metal of Ocean Machine and Accelerated Evolution (even Physicist at points).

Sounds great. He’s got the same guy from “Synchestra” handling drum duties on this one, so things are definitely metaling up. Also there’s female vocals in it because Devin likes women. Here’s the cover and tracklist:

ADDICTED
UNIVERSE IN A BALL
BEND IT LIKE BENDER!
BEAUTIFUL CRUSH
HYPERDRIVE
WILD HEARTS
IH-AH!
THE WAY HOME
NUMBERED
SOULS AWAKE!
OM

Also, there’s a weird video for “Coast” off of Ki on Devin’s site if you wanna check that out.

Stream of Consciousness recently conducted an interview with the one and only Devin Townsend about his new album Ki and upcoming records in the “Devin Townsend Project” thing he’s working on. Here’s an excerpt of the very interesting interview:

Rachel: [laugh] I think you look good with the shaved head.

Devin: Well thank you, yeah so do I. I think I look better at least. It’s like before I became a character, right? It’s kind of hard to go into the bank and asking for a loan when you look like that.

Rachel: [laugh] It’s been said that Deconstruction will be some of your heaviest music. What makes it so?

Devin: Because the whole idea of Deconstruction is deconstructing why we’re attached to heavy music. I put out Ki and people want to listen to it and it’s like this is a really good record. But there’s a whole network of people that are like, “No no no no no! We only want heavy music, we only want chaotic music, we only want devilish, horrible, destructive music” and I’m like well why? I’ll do it for you, but just tell me why first. “Because we love it, because we love it.” Why do you love it? Ya know? “Fuck the world, fuck the world, fuck everything man, only heavy, only metal” and I’m like ok, I’ll tell you what I’ll make you that record, but I’m going to sing about why we’re liking this music. Honestly, at the root of it, I think humans are really terrified and I think a lot of people who really love heavy music love it because it’s a way for them to protect themselves. If you put this thing forward and are like “I’m going to scare people with my music”, then no one’s going to get to the root of the fact that maybe it’s just you that are terrified and that’s your way of protecting yourself, that’s your defense mechanism. It’s one thing to say, “Oh I’m mad at God”, but maybe you’re really just mad at your father, you know? And I think that all these themes… that’s the thing that’s really interesting to me about heavy music now it’s like yes I love heavy music absolutely, but man to think that’s the only thing that I’m able to offer and that’s the only thing that certain people are willing to accept from me? You know, it’s not like I’m pissed off about it, but it’s kind of like are you sure you really want to know why you really like this with the exclusion of everything else?

Read the rest here. Thanks to gogo for the post.

St. Patricks was a week ago

ITE: Guitar Hero, Zach gets stood up by some asshole, Old podcast co-hosts, ugly fat chicks, pool showers, Heavy Metal Hentai, I don’t get Mastodon, The wolf in the sky and the morons that believe he’s actually there, Devin Motherfucking Townsend and his new stuff, Pagan Knights, Zach’s Tech Tip Minute and forum malfunctions.

Playlist:
Astriaal – The Funeral Procession/Ritual Hate Construct
Heaven and Hell – Bible Black
Reusmarkt – Fortress Ung
Municipal Waste – The Art of Partying
Bolt Thrower – Anti-Tank
Kreator – Violent Revolution
Steve Ouimette – The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Dalriada – Tavaszköszöntõ

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