Devin Townsend
By: Staff
Coinciding with his two new albums, Deconstruction and Ghost, Devin Townsend and InsideOut are giving the public a 10-song compilation of Devin Townsend’s solo material. The compilation features songs from every one of Townsend’s records released by InsideOut. Get the download at this location, although giving the app access to your Facebook or Twitter is required.
Here’s the tracklist of the compilation (thanks to Bravewords.com):
“By Your Command” (Ziltoid)
“Christeen” (Infinity)
“Coast” (Ki)
“Deadhead” (Accelerated Evolution)
“Life” (Ocean Machine)
“Material” (Physicist)
“Mountain” (Terria)
“Sit In The Mountain” (Infinity demo)
“Supercrush” (Addicted)
“Vampira” (Synchestra)
Townsend recently gave some information about his next musical endeavor, entitled Epicloud. In an interview with Bravewords.com’s Carl Begai, he revealed that he would be working again with Agua De Annique singer Anneke van Giersbergen, with whom he had previously collaborated on his record Addicted.
“This next thing I’m writing, I’m writing for her,” Townsend explained. “The next bout of material… the drama, the metaphors, the complications and all the heavy shit that went along with the past four or five records have been worked out as far as I can see. Even when I was making Deconstruction and Ghost, I remember thinking that I didn’t really need on an artistic level to make it so dense and so challenging to listen to. So, the stuff that I’ve written now is highly melodic and has very simple structures. I’m finding that what’s coming out naturally now, the guitars are still heavy and it’s still got that epic sound, but it’s very different for me vocally. There’s no screaming; it’s melodic and ethereal-sounding vocals.”
“When it comes to playing live, I think I’ve got a really strong voice for what I want to put across. Specifically in the studio; I can do what I need to do, but my voice isn’t very resilient when it comes to performing live. So I find that after two or three weeks of touring most of my daily struggle is to make my voice not sound like it’s completely bagged. With the new stuff, hopefully I’m going to write all the heavy and hard singing parts for Anneke [Laughs].
Check out the entire interview here.
