Devin Townsend Project’s nya album Epicloud släpps den 24 september via InsideOut Music. Albumet kommer ha ett gästframträdande utav Anneke Van Giersbergen (The Gathering).
Devin Townsend kommenterar, ”This record is unique to me in that I became interested in simpler, commercial structures based on (I suppose) a reaction to Deconstruction and Ghost. I admit, it’s not too far removed, but far enough to take a few people off guard, I think. With Epicloud, I wanted something catchy as the flu, but with a sentiment that is romantic, positive and beautiful. Spiritual without religion and set to heavy music. Again, because some structures are ’common’ (but new to me), this record is my take on what a big, epic, commercial sounding record that sings about nice stuff would sound like in Dev-land. Please don’t take it as a ’sell-out’ move, because it truly surprised me as well and is a ’transition’ between the four Devin Townsend Project records and my upcoming musical, Z2.”
Angående den musikaliska biten på Epicloud säger Townsend, ”Over the course of the full record, there’s sort of new agey stuff, jazzy stuff, really heavy stuff. We basically cover the gamut. Epicloud is the first record that I felt confident enough to include all those things on one record so it goes between melodic hard rock to schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff and it’s all in one place. I’m using a gospel choir, a string section and a horn section for this one as well. On Deconstruction, I got to use the Prague Philharmonic orchestra and really go far into making an absurd album as over the top as possible and on Epicloud I’m trying to take the same advantages to make some things musically very pleasing, as opposed to just claustrophobic.”
