Devin Townsend is extremely pleased to announce the long-awaited new double-album Z² on October 28 in the U.S. and October 27 in Europe. Devin had this to say:
"Hey all!
So it's been years I've been trying to get the energies in line to do another Ziltoid record, and it's finally happened! Z2 is my new record, and it's a multimedia event that has taken a ton of people a ton of effort to bring to you! It's a double album, (one side DTP, and one side Ziltoid) and the concept expands on Ziltoid the alien, and his sci-fi adventures in a way that kind of throws back to 50's radio plays... but obviously with complicated, heavy music as its soundtrack. It has taken a great deal of energy to put this all together, and the music is just one of the aspects of it. It's a dream come true in a lot of ways, and I'm excited and honoured to be able to finalize the project with a live version of the entire record at the famous Royal Albert Hall in London on April 13th of next year! (!!) Basically what we did with The Retinal Circus a few years back will be taken to the next level with Z2 live.
At the end of this process, we reached for the stars, and hopefully got to the moon, and after this album cycle, I will be taking some time to recharge my batteries and see what the next chapter holds. I hope you enjoy this record and all its offshoots, as one of my goals is to hopefully inspire folks to reach for unconventional ways to express themselves as well. We couldn't have done it without you! See you at the show?"
-Devin
Oh my god, yo quiero.
A bunch of preview clips from upcoming Devin Townsend projects including some clips from this:
http://youtu.be/d3vLMBmdQNk
Updates : http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/05/05/devin-townsend-z2-tracklist-revealed-recording-begun/
Tracklist revealed! He is in fact working on 3 albums ;)
Gonna explode before this thing comes out. Can’t effing wait!
the album comes out on 10/27/14 it says this on his new tour poster! https://www.facebook.com/dvntownsend/photos/a.175020189189978.40890.134347786590552/848003565224967/?type=1&theater
This was supposedly delivered to the label today, according to Devin’s twitter.
Made an error while updating the tracklist, how can I delete the first one?
Cleaned up the page!
Seems like reviewers are starting to get it. Hopefully it won’t be long now!
yes i think we’ll get the album leaked soon!
too excited for this
So close!!
Okay, since I apparently need 20 points to post a link, I’ll just post my shit here. (Thanks for telling me I needed 20 points AFTER I had already typed up a few paragraphs :) )
Okay first of all, here is the link to the preorder: https://www.bandstores.co.uk/shop/devintownsend/products.php?cat=2288
This link is currently unlisted/unindexed so you can’t find it through typical search methods.
On the website it displays thumbnail images of the orders, which are small and not much is viewable, so after a fiddling around with the URL’s a bit, I was able to find the full resolution versions which clearly depict previously unreleased album art.
Here are the results:
http://www.bandstores.co.uk/prodimages/3.Z2_Digipak_Bundle.jpg – DIGIPAK
http://www.bandstores.co.uk/prodimages/2.Z2_Black_Vinyl_Bundle.jpg – VINYL
http://www.bandstores.co.uk/prodimages/9.Z2_T-Shirt.jpg – FULL TSHIRT VIEW
SInce the page is off of the map, you cannot preorder at the moment, but I’m sure it will be made avaiable soon. Cheers! Hail Ziltoid!
I love the War Princess (Dominique) picture, but it bummed me that they cut her at Dev’s facebook cover
Apparently it comes out a little bit earlier in Japan, on the 22nd instead. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VQCD-10414
I am foaming at the mouth for this. Every review sounds more and more awesome. Bring it on!!
Same here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDfgcNmDr8&feature=youtu.be&a
Better quality version of Universal Flame.
Created an account just to get some heads up on this album. I have never been so excited for an album in my whole life.
I’m gonna resist the spoilers, and wait for the entire thing to leak. It’s gotta be any day now…
Damnit someone has to leak this soon. There are so many reviews and a certain radio station already played most of Z2 live on air yesterday.
http://www.cjlo.com/?q=shows/burnt-offerings/episode-28091418
11 tracks were played on this radio show. Still deciding whether to listen or not. Might peek at a few songs. I don’t technically consider this an album link, so hopefully I won’t get in trouble.
FIRST FILE
2:10 rejoice
SECOND FILE
2:12 fallout
7:25 midnight sun
RIP HEADPHONE USERS warrior should be here, instead it’s aurvandil-ingen lindring (bad file?)
16:02 z2
20:02 from sleep awake
23:45 z empire
30:15 war princess
38:28 deathray
44:00 march
50:28? dimension
ZILTOID, HE COMES
Only listened to ‘Rejoice’, ‘Fallout’ and ‘Z2’, ‘From Sleep Awake’, and ‘Ziltoidian empire’ before it went into War Princess. This is going to be fucking awesome, can’t wait for better quality.
I only listened to those as well. Rejoice, Fallout and Z2 are fucking godly, the Universal Choir sounds like it’s so amazing, can’t wait for decent quality. Also, Midnight Sun sounds so much like Ocean Machine/Terria I almost cried, so good.
looks like that radio station pulled the second part of the broadcast. bummer… i wanted to hear the other songs. Rejoice isn’t bad though.
oh my god, Ziltoid will come… soon.
This needs to leak soon, a big part of the album is already available in low quality.
It’s taking awhile to download for me, but Metalsucks posted a podcast with Universal Flame which probably sounds way better than any of the leaks so far.
http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/09/29/metalsucks-podcast-69-talk-pornhub-devin-townsends-z2/
Oh fuck yeah, sounds much, MUCH better. Podcast is 192kbp/s.
GGGAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
Fucking come on already!! I refuse to cave unless I have a decent rip of at least 128kbps. I want to light the candles and get the lube out… The whole nine…
Wow calm down dude.