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Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, STEVE VAI, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR) played four shows in London in November 2011 dedicated to his tetralogy album concept — a great journey through Devin‘s different states of musical moods — which he started in 2009 with the albums “Addicted” (2009) and “Ki” (2009) and finished with last year’s “Deconstruction” and “Ghost”. The concerts were professionally recorded and filmed for a unique box-set release, which he has decided to call “By A Thread – Live in London 2011”.

Due on June 18 in Europe and June 19 in North America through HevyDevy Records/InsideOut Music, “By A Thread – Live in London 2011” will contain all four shows on four DVDs, plus a five-CD set (the four albums and one disc with all of the encores).

Speaking to AOL‘s Noisecreep, Townsend stated about the upcoming multi-disc package, “We’re going to do the four DVDs, four audio discs [CDS], one of bonus footage, and because the shows are too long to fit the encores on the audio discs, we have a disc of just the encores. . . There’s bonus material from ‘Ghosts’ and ‘Deconstruction’. We did a bunch of PUNKY BRÜSTER stuff [Townsend‘s 1996 project] and for ‘Addicted’ [concert] we did a bunch of old catalog stuff, just to flesh it out. So the people that come to the show are not just feeling ripped off that we played for 55 minutes and then buggered off.” Source: Blabbermouth.net