Music News - Devin Townsend Project to play Auckland in 2017
15 November 2016 - 0 Comments
BRACE
YOURSELF – HEVYDEVY is returning to New Zealand and Australia and he is
bringing DEVIN TOWNSEND
PROJECT!
Devin Townsend Project is obviously the brainchild of frontman Devin
Townsend - who released new album TRANSCENDENCE in
September 2016. To celebrate the success of the album, they are returning to
New Zealand and Australia in May 2017, presented by MJR Presents. The
album was the first ARIA charting album for Devin Townsend Project, coming in at #10
in its first week in the charts – all the more reason to celebrate!
Previously in Australia in 2015 on a string of sold-out shows in Brisbane,
Sydney and Melbourne – this time Auckland (and Perth) are getting some HevyDevy
love. The guitar virtuoso is one of the most celebrated
singer/songwriter/guitarists in heavy music and Devin Townsend Projects’ live show never
fails to satisfy and amaze.
Over the course of Devin
Townsend’s storied career, a single constant has
persevered: change. As far back as Steve
Vai’s SEX
& RELIGION, which Townsend fronted, to 2001’s landmark full-length TERRIA to the multi-instrumentalist’s
country rock outfit Casualties of
Cool to his stunning new album TRANSCENDENCE, the Canadian isn’t too
interested in keeping an even musical keel. To stay the
proverbial course is, well, anathema. For certain, he’s far too
impatient to write the same Strapping
Young Lad song over and over, which is why he folded the
band in 2007, and it’s likely there will never be a fourth or fifth Ziltoid album (a
third if we’re lucky) because by that point he’ll be in a totally
different frame of mind for galactic puppets gone awry.
The man himself is not shy about talking about his process and his varied, long
and always-interesting career. This album was a different experience to most in
the past and he is excited to bring the show to New Zealand. He muses about the
album process this time around, “The
Devin Townsend Project is still essentially a solo project,” he
reminds. “One of several, but the difference is that I've had a dedicated
team of talented folks here that really had great ideas. One of the ways I
consciously stepped out of my comfort zone was to the solicit feedback from
not only the band, but also to production and engineering. Opinions from
people I trust at the management and label, and all with a sense of
building a kind of archetype of the DTP sound that would not ostracize
people who enjoy the style, but keeping it fresh for me as well. One of the
things I did was present my vision—which I’ve always done—and within that
framework, I’d massage it with the team. For this record, in those
sections, I’d bring it to the band and say, ‘Look guys, here’s what it’s supposed
to do. This is how it’s supposed to make me feel. And how the audience is
supposed to feel. This is how it interacts with the parts prior and after.
That’s why it exists. It’s not complicated because we’re trying to jerk off
here. It’s complicated because, in my mind, the emotional component of the
section is complicated.”
Recorded at The Armoury Studios in Vancouver, Canada with Townsend and Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood (Periphery, Animals as Leaders), TRANSCENDENCE sounds absolutely massive. From the moment ‘Truth’ - a re-work from
the Infinity album - monstrously blends into the soul-stirring ‘Stormbending’ to the
undulating cool of mid-point jam ‘Secret
Sciences’ and Weencover ‘Transdermal
Celebration’, Townsend and crew have engineered a modern-day classic. The sheer scale of
tracks like ‘Failure’, ‘Higher’, and the
majestic title track is at once daunting and inviting. TRANSCENDENCE pulls
the listener in like a movie score. It has the emotional heft of
Rosenman’s Star Trek
IV: The Voyage Home and the mega-riff power of Black-era Metallica.
Townsend’s loyal
fans will get the show of a lifetime with DTP playing the new tracks and tracks from their extensive back
catalogue, despite the project only dating back to 2009.
Tickets for Devin
Townsend Project’s New Zealand / Australia Tour in May 2017
will go on fan pre-sale on November 16 at 10am and on general sale Friday
November 18 at http://www.mjrpresents.com/
MJR
PRESENTS:
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT
NEW ZEALAND/AUSTRALIAN
TOUR MAY 2017
PRE-SALE – WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16 2016
ON-SALE – FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18 2016
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Wednesday May 17 - Powerstation, Auckland
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