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.
- Advertisement -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”
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