Devin Townsend announced earlier this year that he'd be putting The Devin Townsend Project to temporary rest, and would instead be focusing on varying new projects.
While we're still not 100% sure exactly what he'll be putting out musically in the coming months (and maybe years), we now know that we'll be hearing some of it pretty soon! Townsend has taken to Twitter to talk about some of the new stuff he's been working on and how it's pretty all over the board in terms of genres.
All we know for sure is that drummer and Casualties Of Cool collaborator Morgan Ågren is involved with the studio work. He also changed his Twitter profile picture to the artwork for his coming album Empath, which Townsend has been talking about for a while now and seemed to originally want to put out under the Devin Townsend Project name.
Well keep you posted as we know more!
I start recording tomorrow.
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018
Nice to be working with my friend Morgan on a bunch of this material. We sit in a similar place on the beat and we tend to go pretty deep quite quickly. I like his swing. Lots of talented artists involved in this stuff. It’s an odd phase, but really creative and really personal.
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018
I have about 100 songs in different forms and styles. I’m just going to finish as much of it as budget allows and see what goes where. It’s been a change period, similar to between SYL and KI I’d say. I’m hiring people as needed for whatever the song calls for.
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018
There will be other drummers too I think. Depends on the track
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018
I’ll be traveling a fair bit to various cities and working with people as I go. Polygamous creativity ftw
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018
It seems like much of the material calls for different things. Some orchestral, some metal, some rock, some prog, some bizzare, some funky, some pop, some electronic…I want the best people for what that style needs.
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018
I know who I’m interested in working with already, it’s all just about scheduling and budget etc. Everyone is busy all the time :) and that’s a good thing…
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018
