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Devin Townsend Releases New Video From “By A Thread – Live In London 2011”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on June 21, 2012
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TRENDSETTER has issued the following:

Renowned multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend released a new clip from his live DVD box-set “By A Thread – Live In London 2011.” The video clip is a performance of “Ghost” from the former frontman of Strapping Young Lads’ solo project. The video is taken from the Ghost performance. You can watch it below.

“By A Thread – Live in London 2011” contains a 4-DVD set with footage from the sold-out UK shows from last fall where Devin performed all four Devin Townsend Project albums (Ki, Addicted, Ghost, Deconstruction), along with a 5-CD set with the four DTP albums and one disc of encores. All of the box-sets are autographed and numbered with a collector’s certificate of authenticity.

In addition to the 4 DVDs and 5 CDs, all pre-orders of “By A Thread – Live in London 2011″ will include an exclusive 7” with take 2 of the track “Coast” (Devin’s hand-drawn etching is on the B-side), which was taken from the  i performance.

You can also view performances for “Gato” here and “Awake” here.

Find Devin Townsend Project online:

Official website: http://www.hevydevy.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dvntownsend
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/dvntownsend

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, KATATONIA, PARADISE LOST To Join Forces For North American Tour

Posted by tarjavirmakari on June 1, 2012
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This September, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT and KATATONIA will team-up for the “Epic Kings & Idols Tour”, a co-headlining North American run featuring PARADISE LOST as direct support and STOLEN BABIES as openers (DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT and KATATONIA will alternate in headlining each show).

In regards to this upcoming trek, Devin Townsend comments: “So after a break in which we’ve managed to finish the live DVDs from the London shows (‘By A Thread’) as well as our surprisingly epic new record, ‘Epicloud’…We’re about to start getting into touring mode again, and it pleases me to announce that we’ll be with some wonderful bands this fall. I think this package pretty much covers the gamut of emotional heavy music, and really…It’ll be nice to share the stage with some passionate folks who live for their music as much as we do. Again, we can’t thank you enough for supporting what we do and allowing us to play for you. It will be nice to catch up, and we hope to see you there!”

KATATONIA‘s Anders Nyström adds: “A better bill than this will be hard to find!”

The VIP pre-sale begins Wednesday, June 6; tickets will be available to the general public starting Thursday, June 7.

“Epic Kings & Idols Tour” dates:

Sep. 04 – Seattle, WA – Studio 7
Sep. 05 – Vancouver, BC – Commdore
Sep. 07 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
Sep. 08 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theater
Sep. 09 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theater
Sep. 11 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Studio
Sep. 12 – Dallas, TX – Trees
Sep. 13 – Lawrence, KS – Granada
Sep. 14 – Denver, CO – Summit
Sep. 16 – Minneapolis, MN—Station 4
Sep. 17 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
Sep. 18 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
Sep. 19 – Toronto, ON – Opera House
Sep. 20 – Montreal, QC – Cafe Campus
Sep. 21 – Worcester, MA – Palladium
Sep. 22 – Philadelphia, PA – TLA
Sep. 23 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
Sep. 24 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live

Source: Blabbermouth.net

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT: ‘By A Thread – Live in London 2011’ Cinema-Screening Teaser Available

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 21, 2012
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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).

An official pre-release screening event will held on June 5 at the Prince Charles Cinema in London where, over the course of three to four hours, Devin himself will talk all attendees through a summary of all that the DVDs have to offer. Only a limited number of first-come-first-served tickets will be available to a lucky crowd of 250 people. Lucky, because besides being the first to see the DVD they will also have the exclusive opportunity to be the first to purchase the DVD box set two weeks before anyone else can have it. And it’ll be signed, no less!

A two-minute cinema-screening teaser for “By A Thread – Live in London 2011” can be seen below.

Commented Devin: “The amount of work and memory that went into that event has been captured by an even more herculean event by the folks making the DVDs, and finally I get to see what we did those nights! It’s another situation of releasing a product that we think is really cool, and have gone the extra distance to make it worth your while if you’re the type that supports by buying physical product… it’s great! So if you weren’t there, this is as close as you can get… please enjoy and maybe I’ll meet you at the screening!”

The screening will be held on Tuesday, June 5 from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. and tickets are £15 each. Tickets can be purchased at the Prince Charles Cinema via this link. The screening event will be followed up with two acoustic solo shows on June 6 and June 7, both held at London’s The Borderline. And then Devin is off to headline the third stage at the Download festival on Friday, June 8.

Source: Blabbermouth.net

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT: ‘By A Thread – Live in London 2011’ Cover, Details Revealed

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 21, 2012
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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

 

DEVIN TOWNSEND, MESHUGGAH’s FREDRIK THORDENDAL Perform With GOJIRA In Perth (Video)

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 7, 2012
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Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend and MESHUGGAH guitarist Fredrik Thordendal joined French progressive metallers GOJIRA on stage on March 5 at the Soundwave Festival in Perth, Australia to perform the song “Of Blood And Salt”. Fan-filmed video footage of their appearance can be seen below.

The studio version of “Of Blood And Salt” — also featuring Townsend and Thordendal — was included with the May 2011 issue of Metal Hammer magazine, and will appear on GOJIRA‘s forthcoming four-song EP, the proceeds from which will benefit Sea Shepherd, an anti-whaling organization. Release details on that EP, which is loaded with other A-list metal guests like MASTODON‘s Brent Hinds, LAMB OF GOD‘s Randy Blythe and SOULFLY‘s Max Cavalera, are yet to be confirmed. Source: Blabbermouth.net

“Of Blood And Salt” studio recording (audio):

DEVIN TOWNSEND Discusses Vegetarian Diet With Heavy Metal Food; Video Interview Part 3 Posted

Posted by aliblackdiamond on January 25, 2012
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Canadian musician/producer DEVIN TOWNSEND (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, STEVE VAI, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR) spoke about his vegetarian diet during an interview with Gilles Lartigot of Heavy Metal Food, a new Radio Metal column associating metal music with cooking.

The third (and final) part of the chat, which was taped on December 14th, 2011 at Foufounes Electriques in Montreal, QC, can be seen below:

Townsend has confirmed two Soundwave Side Shows with MESHUGGAH for his upcoming run through Australia on the Soundwave tour. They will take place on February 27th and 29th in Sydney and Melbourne respectively.

Townsend’s schedule is as follows:

February
25 – Brisbane, Australia – Rna Showgrounds
26 – Sydney, Australia – Olympic Par
27 – Sydney, Australia – The Factory (with Meshuggah)
29 – Melbourne, Australia – The Forum (with Meshuggah)

March
2 – Melbourne, Australia – Showgrounds
3 – Adelaide, Australia – Bonython Park
5 – Perth, Australia – Claremont Showgrounds

Click here for ticket links to all shows.

Townsend recently offered the following update from the studio, where he has several irons in the fire at once:

“Just finished writing track one for Z2 (Ziltoid 2). It’s about a year and half away now… scary!”

Townsend spoke with Metal Army America during the summer of 2011 and commented on his now legendary alter ego, Ziltoid The Omniscient:

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.