Devin Townsend Interview

Known as the former eccentric frontman of Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend is back to unleash a four record series under the name of the Devin Townsend Project. With the first album Ki out now, Devin Townsend is already deep into the recording process for the second album in the series, Addicted. Townsend took time out of working on Addicted to talk to About.com.

Dan Marsicano: Can you go into detail about the lyrical concept behind Ki?
Devin Townsend: This whole four record progress that I’m currently involved in is called the Devin Townsend Project and Ki is the first record of this project. It’s been a few years since I presented something and I think a lot of folks are used to me being a heavy and chaotic kind of musician entity. Over the past three years, I quit doing drugs, drinking; quit everything that was slowly down that creative process. I also found that perhaps there are certain musical elements of my musical personality that I haven’t been representing and it in fact kind of doing a disservice to my artistic temperament.

With these four records, I wanted to present a lot of different sides to me. Ki being the first one, which is quiet, but it's loud; it has a kind of tense energy. The second one is a very heavy and intense record with a lot of melody. The third record is absolutely crazy, a s&%t storm of an album. The fourth record is a really beautiful acoustic, kind of new-age record.

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