Devin Townsend‘s new album “Empath” has officially been set for a March 29th release date on InsideOut Music. Townsend spoke of the upcoming record, issuing the following statement:
“Hello everybody, this is Devin Townsend and I would like to formally announce that after almost a year and a half of working, I have finished ‘Empath‘. Now this record has taken me down a lot of very interesting psychological and technical avenues and the process was documented from the very get-go by a series of documentary videos that I have done, that outline everything from the gestation of the idea to the actualisation of it, through all the existential ups and downs that went on.
As such this record is different to any record that I have released thus far, and trying to get people on board for what it is versus what it isn’t, I think needs to be dealt with in a different way. Stay tuned for the making of Empath – the video series.”
An introduction to that video series can be found below. Meanwhile, Townsend enlisted numerous guest musicians to help him realize his vision for the album, including:
- Mike Keneally
- Morgan Ågren (Mats And Morgan, Frank Zappa, Fredrik Thordendal)
- Anup Sastry (ex-Monuments/Periphery)
- Samus Paulicelli (Decrepit Birth, Abigail Williams)
- Nathan Navarro
- Elliot Desagnes
- Steve Vai
- Chad Kroeger (Nickelback)
- Anneke Van Giersbergen
- Ché Aimee Dorval
- Ryan Dhale
- Elektra Women’s Choir
The album will be released in various formats, including a limited edition 2-CD digipak which will sport an extra disc of bonus material. Here’s how record will run:
01 – “Castaway”
02 – “Genesis”
03 – “Spirits Will Collide”
04 – “Evermore”
05 – “Sprite”
06 – “Hear Me”
07 – “Why”
08 – “Borderlands”
09 – “Requiem”
10 – “Singularity Part 1 – Adrift”
11 – “Singularity Part 2 – I Am I”
12 – “Singularity Part 3 – There Be Monsters”
13 – “Singularity Part 4 – Curious Gods”
14 – “Singularity Part 5 – Silicon Scientists”
15 – “Singularity Part 6 – Here Comes The Sun”
