So this weekend, syndicated radio show Full Metal Jackie premiered “Lucky Animals,” the first single from Devin Townsend’s forthcoming album Epicloud. In short, it’s goofy, fun, melodic and catchy, or everything that you’re looking for in a Devin Townsend song. Since it’s a radio rip, it definitely doesn’t sound that amazing, but listen to it and make a [...]
Friday, August 3, 2012
Well, kind of. Actually, it’s only snippets of every song on his forthcoming album, Epicloud. Epic? Yes. Loud? Well, that depends on how high your volume is turned up. The album will be released on September 18 on HevyDevy/InsideOut. Meanwhile, you’ll probably want to pick up tickets for the Epic Kings & Idols tour, which will feature [...]
Monday, July 30, 2012
Back in March, New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra (otherwise known as the girl in Gotye’s still-ubiquitous “Somebody That I Used To Know,” which is the year’s biggest-selling single) revealed via Twitter that she was a huge fan of The Dillinger Escape Plan. At the time, we’d mused as to whether that might lead to the two [...]
Friday, July 27, 2012
You’ve been hearing about Devin Townsend’s forthcoming album Epicloud for months now, and this teaser video suggests that the album will be as ambitious as Heavy Devy promised it would be. Who knew a choir would be involved. And how about the conductor?! “Effervescent” leads off the album, and it should give you a small taste [...]
Friday, June 1, 2012
While there’s no release date for Devin Townsend’s forthcoming Epicloud album yet, Devy fans have reason to rejoice, as it was announced today that he’ll be co-headlining the “Epic Kings & Idols tour” along with Katatonia. Paradise Lost and Stolen Babies will be opening. “So after a break in which we’ve managed to finish the live [...]
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Last Summer, Ihsahn recorded a guest appearance on Devin Townsend’s “Juular.” Fast forward a year, and now Hevy Devy has returned the favor to the former Emperor guitarist, making a guest appearance on his new solo album Eremita. And now the song “Introspection,” featuring Townsend, is streaming over at Guitar World. Just like with “Juular,” [...]
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Last month, Devin Townsend showed lots of signs that his new album Epicloud was making great progress. And this past weekend, Hevy Devy was joined in the studio by none other than long time collaborator and former The Gathering singer Anneke Van Giersbergen. For fans of the Devin Townsend Project’s Addicted, this is fantastic news [...]
Monday, April 16, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Recently, both As I Lay Dying and Slayer revealed which producers they’ll be working in the studio soon. At first, these announcements reminded us how crucial of a role the producer can play during the recording sessions of a new album. [...]
Monday, April 2, 2012
Devin Townsend is close to finishing yet another album’s worth of new material, this time called Epicloud. And during his acoustic performance this past Saturday (March 31) Club Saw in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada as part of this year’s Junofest, Hevy Devy premiered a new song off the new record. The song is called “Back Where [...]
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Hevy Devy has been keeping himself busy with three new projects in the works (not to mention his By A Thread – Live in London 2011 DVDs). The one album we’ve known about the longest, though, is Epicloud. And now it looks like we could hear Devin Townsend’s new album as soon as September. Townsend [...]
Did you love hearing Anvil’s new song “Mankind Machine”? Then stream the Canadian thrashers’ new album Hope In Hell in its entirety before it’s released on May 28 over at Loudwire.
Kylesa’s new album, Ultraviolet, is streaming online at Pitchfork. Check out the album, as well as some pretty awesome visuals, here. The album will come out on May 28 on Season of Mist.
Unsigned & Streamed vets Anciients, who’s Season of Mist debut Heart of Oak is out now, have landed the opening slot on the Lamb of God tour. They’ll be playing from May 16 – June 10. Check out the dates here.
Sinestra Studios (who very often provides Metal Insider with some killer live photos) is hosting its very first art galleria and metal show on Saturday, May 25, at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets for the event are onsale now.
Louna has premiered a new music video for the song “Business” with Crave Online. The extravagant and politically themed music video comes in support of the Russian hard rock group’s new album, Behind The Mask, available now via Red Decade Records and MEG/RED.
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