Devin Townsend announces new album ‘PowerNerd’

DEVIN TOWNSEND has announced a new album!

Titled PowerNerd, the upcoming album from the acclaimed Canadian progressive artist is the follow-up to 2022’s Lightwork, and is scheduled to be released in November this year, via InsideOut Music.

“It was a conscious thing,” TOWNSEND says of his brand-new album, the music on which he wrote in just 11 days. “I thought, ‘I’ve spent so much time overthinking every aspect of my work – what would happen if I didn’t?’ Maybe I would have the opportunity to be a bit more direct with what it is that I’m trying to do. I really wanted to see if I could cut through some of the meandering.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, DEVIN TOWNSEND has released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; the title track PowerNerd. The new song features a guest appearance from HATEBREED‘s Jamey Jasta.

Speaking about the new song, the artist says, “I would say that a PowerNerd would be somebody that has a tendency that society has deemed weak or not valuable, whether that’s empathy or being an insular person or an introvert, and turns that into a type of personal power. It’s like, ‘okay, yeah, I’m sensitive to this, that and the other thing, but man, I am going to pull through! I am going to do things with that sensitivity that are rooted in strength’.”

Watch the official music video for PowerNerd here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

1. PowerNerd
2. Falling Apart
3. Knuckledragger
4. Gratitude
5. Dreams of Light
6. Ubelia
7. Jainism
8. Younger Lover
9. Glacier
10. Goodbye
11. Ruby Quaker

PowerNerd is set for release on October 25th via InsideOut Music. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on DEVIN TOWNSEND like his official page on Facebook.