DEVIN TOWNSEND On Forthcoming Deconstruction Album - "It Just Sounds Like A Journey Up My Own Ass In A Lot Of Ways"
November 19, 2009, 15 years ago
Devin Townsend (ex-STRAPPING YOUNG LAD) is featured in a new interview with The Gauntlet, discussing his new DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT album Addicted. An excerpt is available below.
The Gauntlet: Ki had female vocals also, will the final two albums also have the male/female thing going?
Devin: Deconstruction is an entirely different beast. With Addicted, I wanted equal male and female parts. With Ki I wanted female parts to punctuate it. Deconstruction is a hard one to describe. The more I do, it just sounds like a journey up my own ass in a lot of ways. The bottom line with it is it is a very complicated and interesting record with a lot of dynamics and music that is very heavy even for me. It is a really heavy and complicated record but not a typical metal record. It is more of a symphonic type of thing I am trying to do, whether I succeed someone else will have to judge. I want to include a lot of different musicians in the metal genre that can do the vocals that I am not good at, like death metal vocals. When I do death metal vocals, I sound like Super Grover. Having those type of people do it is the same as having Anneke on Addicted."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
Devin Townsend Project dates (with BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, CYNIC, SCALE THE SUMMIT):
January
8 - Nashville, TN - Rocketown9 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
10 - New Orleans, LA - The Masquerade
11 - Houston, TX - The Meridian
12 - Dallas, TX - The Prophet Bar
13 - San Antonio, TX - The White Rabbit
15 - Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse
16 - San Diego, CA - House Of Blues
17 - Hollywood, CA - Sunset Strip
18 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
20 - Denver, CO - Cervantes
22 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
23 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
24 - Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
25 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's Downunder
26 - Toronto, ON - Opera House
27 - Montreal, QC - Club Soda
28 - Boston, MA - House Of Blues
29 - Clifton Park, NY - Northern Lights
30 - New York, NY - The Fillmore
31 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
February
1 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar3 - St. Peterburg, FL - State Theatre
6 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
