Devin Townsend announces new live album ‘Order Of Magnitude – Empath Live Volume 1’

DEVIN TOWNSEND has announced a new live album!

Titled Order Of Magnitude – Empath Live Volume 1, the upcoming album from the Canadian virtuosic musician was recorded in December 2019 in London, UK on the penultimate night of the tour in support of his latest album Empath, and is scheduled to be released in October, via InsideOut Music.

This run of shows saw Devin joined by an incredible line-up of musicians. The band was made up of guitarists Mike Kenneally [ex-FRANK ZAPPA] and Markus Reuter [STICK MAN, THE CRIMSON PROJECT], drummer Morgen Agren [KAIPA, MATS & MORGAN, FRANK ZAPPA], bassist Nathan Navarro, HAKEN keyboard player Diego Tejeida, and guitarist/vocalist Ché Aimee Dorval, as well as vocalists Samantha & Anne Preis and Arabella Packford.

The live album will be released as a Limited Deluxe 2CD+Blu-Ray+DVD Artbook (including expanded artwork & photos), Limited 2CD+DVD Digipak, Standalone Blu-Ray, Gatefold 3LP+2CD vinyl box-set & as a Digital Album. The Blu-Ray disc includes a bonus behind the scenes documentary, and both DVD & Blu-Ray feature a 5.1 surround sound mix.

“The whole objective was that I wanted to make that statement: This is by the seat our pants,” he says. “Because it’s important to me to represent this hyper anal-retentive music that I’ve made over the years, but in a human way. Rather than it just being, ‘Well, here it is, perfectly done.’ I was overwhelmed by the fact that all these brilliant people that I have so much respect for were willing to come together and play this weird shit with me. I had these unique players and this interesting instrumentation that allowed us to interpret the music in different ways. It was clear to me that I could just have fun and be me and know that they would be effortlessly be able to follow that.”

Alongside the announcement of the new live release, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming release below:

Track List:

1. Borderlands
2. Evermore
3. War
4. Sprite
5. Gigpig Jam
6. Coast
7. Gato
8. Heavens End
9. Ain’t Never Gonna Win
10. Deadhead
11. Why?
12. Lucky Animals
13. Castaway/Genesis
14. Spirits Will Collide
15. Disco Inferno
16. Kingdom

Order Of Magnitude – Empath Live Volume 1 is set for release on October 23rd via InsideOut Music.

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