Strapping Young Lad – After 10 Years, Townsend to Take Some Time Off
In a recent MTV article, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD mainman Devin Townsend announced that he is, “…going to take a hiatus from making records for a while. In the past 10 years, I’ve put out 20 records.” That includes Strapping, the Devin Townsend Band and his own solo projects, like 2001’s Terria. “[It's been] bang-bang-bang-bang. As soon as I finish one, I’m writing another, and when that one’s done, I’m writing another. I just don’t want to write records right now.
“The records I make, I’m there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork,” he continued. “And it’s been so many years of doing it. I won’t ever stop doing what I do, I just need a break so I can go sit on a beach somewhere and drink Corona after Corona and stumble back to a hotel.”
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD’s album “The New Black”, which features 13 cuts, is devastatingly brutal.
“With this record, we just set out to make a really good-sounding, riotous record to listen to, and we achieved that,” Townsend said. “It’s what it needed to be. Fans will like it. I mean, considering the amount of time we had to do it, I think we did a really good job.”
The band will shoot a video for the first track, “Wrong Side,” Sunday in Jersey City, New Jersey, with director David Brodsky (Diecast, God Forbid). The video’s concept is hard to describe just know that it involves three Devins (”Dreaming Devin,” “Devil Devin” and “Angel Devin”) who work against each other with ungodly results.
As for Ozzfest, Devin’s too exhausted to be excited.
“I don’t even know what the Ozzfest is all about. Everybody seems to be making a real big deal about it, and for me, it’s just the next gig we’re doing,” he said. “People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I’m just oblivious to it. … I’m in a weird position, because there’s all this rock and roll stuff [that goes on backstage at Ozzfest], and everyone’s really into putting their party pants on and getting liquored up and high. I just don’t fit in as well as a lot of people.”
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