Devin Townsend's alter-ego, Ziltoid The Omniscient, has checked in with the following update:

"Yesssss! The fine humans at Framus have bestowed upon Ziltoid the ultimate weapon! The world's most awesome and wankiest guitar! Indeed!"

To celebrate the release of the Z² double-album this week, Devin Townsend has launched the third and final (for now) episode of ZTV. Check out all three installments below:

The Devin Townsend Project's Z² double album is divided into Sky Blue (Part 1) and Dark Matters (Part 2). Several new pieces of promo art have been posted on Townsend's official Facebook page and can be viewed below:

Townsend is featured in a new interview with the UK-based Independent discussing his forthcoming double-album release:

Townsend: "The first disc, Sky Blue, is the next step up from Epicloud but the melodies aren’t as basic, it’s a lot more melancholy, it’s maybe a little more washed out colour wise, it’s not as vibrant, but it really speaks for the fact that I couldn’t do a happy record right now, that’s not where I was at.

My view on the second disc, Dark Matters, is different again. Seven years have gone by since the first Ziltoid. That was a really psychological record for me and he was a representation of me at that time, you know, I’d just had a kid, I was coming out of drugs and quitting my band, Strapping Young Lad, stuff like that. I just don’t care about that stuff as much as I did.

I’ve got other kids around me now like, my sister’s kids and my neighbour’s kids and they became really interested in Ziltoid and started giving me ideas for the story. So Z² ended up being like a story for kids, just with really savage music, orchestras, choirs and all that stuff. I started thinking about 'Who am I trying to reach with this record?'"

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Devin Townsend Project have released a very special lyric video for the track "Deathray", taken from the Dark Matters half of the new album Z². That video can be viewed below: