Vocalist/guitarist/producer Devin Townsend (ex-STRAPPING YOUNG LAD) has checked in with a brief message:

"One at a time, Ziltoid Rock Band is going up. 'Hyperdrive' came out August 23rd."

Check it out and purchase here.

Fans should note that this is the original version of 'Hyperdrive', featured on his 2007 album Ziltoid The Omniscient, and not the version that appears on the DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT's Addicted record from 2009 with Anneke van Giersbergen on vocals. Both versions are available for streaming below.

Townsend recently discussed his Ziltoid persona with Metal Army America:

MAA: Will we ever see the Ziltoid character return again in some way, shape or form?

Townsend: "Ziltoid I think is rapidly becoming the mascot for what I do. It’s great for me on a number of levels I think. I love playing the character and it’s an extension of an exaggerated part of my personality that I think I felt self-conscious of doing before I quit doing certain lifestyle choices. But with Ziltoid its very creative and free. You know to be a fan of a human being is cool and everything. I know when I was younger there were certain people in bands I was really a fan of. And then as you get older you realize as you well know everybody is a human being and everybody is fallible. Everybody is an idiot trying to figure it all out. Everybody has their own hypothesis on what it is or what it isn’t, but ultimately none of us know. But everybody needs a hero too. I don’t want to be that hero, but I think that Ziltoid can be a very cool superhero because he’s from the fourth dimension and he’s a combination of backyard quantum physics and poop jokes. I think the combo of those two things for me is artistically full of potential (laughs)."

Click here for the complete interview.