DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT frontman Devin Townsend recently spoke with Gun Shy Assassin. An excerpt from the story is available below.

Devin Townsend has been working on completing this four-disc musical journey he’s been on for well over a year, and will wrap things up in April, when both records are released on the same day. Devin doesn’t hold back: “I think they’re good. Like, I think they’re like really, really good, dude. But definitely not in the vein of Addicted” — the second in the series; the album followed Ki, which was atmospheric and moody — “where it’s maybe more accessible. I mean, it’s pretty inaccessible material, but at the same time, I like the freedom to be able to do that, and like unabashedly so, too.”

When Townsend informed his label of his decision to release Ghost — an album he says is “not dark at all” — and Deconstruction — which “I don’t think there’s any light to it at all” — on the same day, and that the efforts would be polar opposites, he told them “I want to do two records — one’s a new age record and the other one’s a symphony about a cheeseburger…we good?,” and we was good. That’s because Devin has yet to fail us, and from the sounds of things, he’s not about to this spring either.

“With Deconstruction, there was just a point where I said, ‘You know what? This is going so far in that direction that I might as well push it over the cliff.’ It is just a completely uncompromising, uncommercial record, but I think the juxtaposition between the two is interesting, and the fact that they’re coming out together will intrigue people and if not, confuse them. In all honesty, I’m ok with either of those reactions.”

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The Devin Townsend Project's tour schedule is now as follows:

November

4 - London, ON - London Music Hall
5 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody’s Downunder
6 - Flint, MI - Machine Shop
7 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall

Earlier this month, Townsend issued the following pre-tour update:

"This is our second run in North America this year, the first was with BTBAM and CYNIC, and we would also love to see some faces from those shows as well!

Before every show I am doing 'VIP' talks with acoustic stuff, if you got tickets for that it should be interesting... and of course, I'll sign whatever you want after the actual shows as well. The show is about an hour and a half worth of stuff, and we've tried to give a good cross section of the material. The hope for the future is to tour a lot, and building an audience is pretty much one at a time for any band, so please check out the music on youtube or however you do if you're not familiar with it, and then maybe bring the whole family :)

There are currently talks about bringing the band to many places next year, so if we haven't had a chance to rock together, hopefully we will soon.”