The Devin Townsend Project and Scrape Records have issued a joint statement to all their Vancouver fans / customers who were disappointed and inconvenienced with the cancellation of the planned November 10th Z² signing session at Scrape.

"Due to no fault of Scrape or DTP, the cancellation was due to the 3CD version being held up in manufacturing and being bumped to a new Canadian release date of November18th.

Rest assured that the DTP and Scrape are working together to get your copies of Z² autographed already purchased or still to be purchased at Scrape prior to November 18th. These will be autographed next Tuesday before the DTP play that same night at The Commodore. They will then be available for pick up at Scrape starting November 19th. You will also get a FREE Z² album flat for your hassles. 

If you have already pre-paid for Z² at Scrape, please come in or call us with your name so we can included your name on our list of 'disciples' that will have signed Z² product coming their way.

Thanks for your support!"

For updates visit Scrape Records here. Go to this location for the Devin Townsend Project's complete tour schedule. 

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.

Album trailer: