Devin Townsend Deconstrupdate 2

[Plankis]

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

SWEEEEEEEEEET!

@ "The Mighty Masturbator"

 

[coreysMonster]

anyone else get a boner watching this?

EDIT: "We all rip off Meshuggah"???

Finally someone admits it!

 

[The-Zeronaut]

wow
this cd is gonna be EPIC.

 

[JeffTD]

...I have no words.


@ the "we all rip off Meshuggah" line in the second-to-last song.

 

[Cyanide_Anima]

Awesome. The man is right, too. haha.

 

[Rob Logic]

looooord....

 

[B36arin]

Holy shit... This is going to be immense!!!

 

[fatalforce]

I'm pretty excited. Devy never disappoints!

 

[JeffTD]

5:35 you can hear Tommy Rogers from BTBAM!

 

[JeffTD]

From the HevyDevy forum:

Hey guys,

all the guest spots for the most parts are just in one song at a time and are not huge parts...

Trying to make a 'musical' without being totally cheesy requires different voices. There's no story though, it's not 'Operation Mindcrime' or anything, just 9 (looong) songs and a ton of layers and vibes, so having different folks and energies gives it color.

The people I have involved are friends and colleagues. I've had a lot of people offer, but really...I wanted to keep it to people I knew or have had a musical relationship with.

Here's the current list of who does what: (more to be announced when it's ready)

Stand: Mike Akerfeldt
Juular: Ihsahn
Planet Of The Apes: Tommy Rogers
Sumeria: Joe DuPlantier
The Mighty Masturbator: TBA
Deconstruction: Oderus and Fredrik Thordenal
Pandemic: Floor Jansen
Poltergeist: TBA

Song order:

Praise The Lowered
Stand
Juular
Planet Of The Apes
Sumeria
The Mighty Masturbator
Cheeseburger
Pandemic
Poltergeist

keeping it short:

The character goes to hell to confront himself, his fears and his demons. He meets the 'devil' and realizes that it is himself, and he moves on to believing his is now capable of understanding the universe and everything having conquered the fear of himself..

This arrogance leads him to the furthest corners of his mind until he is presented with a vision of the sum of everything. It ends up being a cheeseburger, presented by a choir of angels. The point is that EVERYTHING EXISTS IN EVERYTHING, and the whole time his arrogance has led him to absurd personal dramas based on the arrogance that the universe is actually just an equation to be solved, when really... there is nothing but reality. For example, deconstruction a fractal (mandelbrot) is endless, but the equation is elegant and subtle.

The cheeseburger (or whatever he was looking at, it doesn't matter really) needed to be absurd to make the point. I guess the point may be that feeling the need to conquer everything is simply a reflection of powerlessness overall.

He finds the true nature of what he was looking at so closely when he stands back and observes it from a distance, and from a distance it becomes something uninteresting. So Ghost starts.

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He is vegetarian, thats why he can't accept it.

On the song "Cheeseburger:"

Ok, renamed it Deconstruction after all...

The cheeseburger metaphor is not the point of the song in the scheme of it, and that realization happens halfway through the song.

So there, officially it is now 'Deconstruction' ...sorry to those that prefer Cheeseburger

And there is substantially more fapping in 'Deconstruction' (yaw!) than Masturbator tbh, the point of masturbator (17 minutes of it...) is exploring excess (emotionally or otherwise) to arrive at the conclusion that we often do it to make ourselves feel important or powerful etc... so it had to be long, wanky, odd and random.

...and let me assure you...it is.

 

[Rip-G]

It's interesting that Devin who is far from multiplatinum status can afford a real orchestra to play on a record. Especially that I'm sure he would have done a good job with samples too. I really wonder how is it possible... I know in Eastern Europe it's cheaper but still... it's not like they work for peanuts.

 

[B36arin]

I think that's the same orchestra that recorded the Dimmu album. They're dirt cheap IIRC, at least for being a full symphony orchestra!

 

[ahjteam]

It's interesting that Devin who is far from multiplatinum status can afford a real orchestra to play on a record. Especially that I'm sure he would have done a good job with samples too. I really wonder how is it possible... I know in Eastern Europe it's cheaper but still... it's not like they work for peanuts.

Some numbers for comparison:

http://www.worldsalaries.org/allsectors.shtml

Salaries & Earnings for All Sectors, Net Monthly Income

Switzerland $ 3,603
UK $ 2,677
USA $ 2,313
Finland $ 2,173
Canada $ 1,876
Czech $ 527
Romania $ 188
Thailand $ 140

Also the reason why people export manufacturing to china:

http://www.worldsalaries.org/manufacturing.shtml

Manufacturing Sector Average Salary - International Comparison

USA $ 2,372
China $ 134

 

[Damian B]

Words cannot describe how much I love this man and his music.

 

[Terminus]

anyone else get a boner watching this?

For the chubby Czech lady in the leopard print shirt, sure.

This is going to be a must-have record

 

[coreysMonster]

Some numbers for comparison:

http://www.worldsalaries.org/allsectors.shtml

Salaries & Earnings for All Sectors, Net Monthly Income

Switzerland $ 3,603
UK $ 2,677
USA $ 2,313
Finland $ 2,173
Canada $ 1,876
Czech $ 527
Romania $ 188
Thailand $ 140

The singers he hired were definately English speaking, though.

And even disregarding the cost factor, the fact that Devin would go through the trouble of recording a full orchestra instead of just using samples shows how über-dedicated he is to this record.

 

[UtopianCrux]

I think that's the same orchestra that recorded the Dimmu album. They're dirt cheap IIRC, at least for being a full symphony orchestra!

Yup. Septicflesh as well. This sort of thing is not new to them, I can see why it works so well.

 

[Ashgarth]

On Dev's facebook:

Devin Townsend: Thanks Paul M! Beautiful...

Paul Masvidal on vocals too??

 

[ahjteam]