Category: DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT

After a few exceptionally long years full of personal change and near manic levels of creative activity, talented Canadian musician DEVIN TOWNSEND releases his follow up to 2019’s well received Empath in the form of his new release, ”Lightwork”.
Assembled from a barrage of material written during the pandemic, ”Lightwork” (and its companion album of B-sides and rarities; ”Nightwork”) represents Devin at this stage of his life, post pandemic, and his reflections on what he (and many of us) have all gone through.
Featuring the likes of Steve Vai, Mike Keneally , Anneke Van Giersbergen just to name a few, for ”Lightwork”, Devin decided to see what would happen if he included a producer (an experiment he has been excited to attempt for some time) to help guide this selection of material. He chose long-time friend Garth “GGGarth” Richardson to help bring this idea to fruition, and through a difficult (but wonderful) process, the next Devin album have been delivered.
The name ”Lightwork” represents the music, as well as the act of creating music, as a kind of ‘light in the dark’ while trying to navigate the seemingly endless challenges that life can often present…

“Empath” is the upcoming eighteenth studio album by Canadian musician DEVIN TOWNSEND, to be released on March 29, 2019, this Limited Edition version including a bonus disc. With his Devin Townsend Project on hold, this is a Devin Townsend solo album. Well, not exactly, as collaborators are a stream of musicians who have been with him through important periods of...

* One of the most prolific cats in the present music biz, DEVIN TOWNSEND is unstoppable. Approaching the creation of his new album “Z2” to be released on October 27 – somewhere around his 30th recording and a double CD at that – Townsend said he created 50 songs.Thankfully, for us (or perhaps not if you’re a hevydevy demonoid), he...

the Real one * Devin Townsend has returned with the fifth album under his penultimate solo moniker; the DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, a CD entitled “Epicloud” to be released at the end of September. Over the past three years Devy has expanded into a wide array of musical soundscapes, pushing his repertoire into unexplored territories, as well as expanding on the...