{"id":2948,"date":"2014-10-27T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hevydevy.com\/?post_type=discography&#038;p=2948"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:58:53","slug":"z2","status":"publish","type":"discography","link":"https:\/\/hevydevy.com\/discography\/z2\/","title":{"rendered":"Z2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2948\" class=\"elementor elementor-2948\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;premium_particles_zindex&quot;:0,&quot;premium_particles_responsive&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"discography\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-090b619 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"090b619\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fd09072\" data-id=\"fd09072\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;premium_particles_zindex&quot;:0,&quot;premium_particles_responsive&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e5bceb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0e5bceb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"album wp-image-747 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/hevydevy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/z2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hevydevy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/z2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hevydevy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/z2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hevydevy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/z2.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p><p>\u201cWith the old \u2018Ziltoid\u2019 record,\u201d muses Hevy Devy, \u201cI wanted to make a point that I could do things for $500, you know, with a drum machine and one microphone and a Line6 pod. But now, listening back to that record, in many ways it sounds like a glorified demo. They say every seven years you cycle through a full change, and \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019 (\u2018Ziltoid Squared\u2019) is the original idea magnified extensively.\u201d<\/p><p>Magnified indeed. Feasting upon \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019 is akin to immersing oneself in the arcane creases of the Devin Townsend Project catalogue vis-\u00e0-vis layers of bludgeoning heaviness and angelic melodies living under the cathedral of Devin\u2019s more contemplative solo vision. Following on the heels of his crowd funded \u2018Casualties Of Cool\u2019 project, Ziltoid is more in line with a \u201ctypical\u201d Devin release: militaristic rhythms and musical puzzles to be solved by the listener, combined with a full second disc of music to follow-up the last DTP album, \u2018Epicloud\u2019.<\/p><p>The two new discs on \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019 are individually titled \u2018Sky Blue\u2019 (DTP) and \u2018Dark Matters\u2019 (Ziltoid).<\/p><p>\u201cI ended up in a scenario where I was presented the opportunity to fulfill a life goal of making complicated music aside complicated puppets, composing strange music, and doing it without compromise due to the success of our recent crowd funding. It has been an absolutely furious few years, and as a result of the amount of stimulus I have ingested, the outcome of \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019 was steeped in overcoming fears of success and failure and interpreting that recent chaos. Ziltoid as a character is essentially just a funny \u2018Alien\u2019, but the role of the character gives me an outlet to present avant-garde style heavy metal ideas without those ideas being the strict focus. When I think of movies such as \u2018Star Wars\u2019, they are essentially simple stories with scenarios complimented by complicated music. Ziltoid gives me an avenue to explore that.<\/p><p>On recommendation of a friend, I went to a hypnotherapy session and through some self analysis, recognized that my creative path has always been split, and that it was important for the conclusion of this period of creative density for me to do not only the ZIltoid album, but a separate album of more straight ahead, DTP-style music as well.\u201d<\/p><p>Continues Townsend, \u201cI just went for it\u2014 and I wrote 50 songs, maybe more. And then, predictably, every step of this project turned out to be a massive task. There\u2019s been not one element of it that\u2019s been as simple as, \u2018Okay, I guess we\u2019ll go in and, for example, record bass now.\u2019 No, we had to get a studio specific for the bass player, as for the sake of time, I was in LA tracking Ryan with his engineer brother. Dave and Mike St-Jean tracked in another studio, and I tracked in various places. As complicated as this sounds, it was not only for the sake of time, it also just seemed appropriate to experiment. Another \u2018experiment\u2019 was The \u2018Universal Choir\u2019 that we did online, and yet another example of a massive task for \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019: we designed a website that allowed fans to upload themselves singing parts of the album, and we then took their files and assembled it into a 2000 person strong, \u2018fan choir\u2019. After the massively large digital sessions, the choir eventually ended up on the songs \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019, \u2018Dimension Z\u2019, and \u2018Before We Die\u2019. All said and done, it\u2019s just been a massive project, down to the engineering to facilitating how do we do it, and how do we deliver it. I would have to say it has challenged me in ways I didn\u2019t even realize I could be challenged.\u201d<\/p><p>American orchestras, an orchestra in Prague, and then there\u2019s the happenstance that the actual Ziltoid is\u2026a puppet. \u201cThe puppets took a year to make, as we went through one revision at first. It cost me a ton of money but ultimately I wanted to make sure that the look of this project from minute one was what it is. There\u2019s no messing around with it. For the voice actor, I hired a friend of mine who has a very recognizable Hollywood style voice to do the narration. On the first \u2018Ziltoid\u2019 record, we had my buddy pretend he was the narrator, where he narrated a frankly ridiculous story. And on this one, I tried to write a story that was a bit simpler that provided an outlet for complicated music while still being sort of cinematic. In a way, I was hoping to achieve a sort of \u201950\u2032s radio play\u2019 brought up to today\u2019s heavy music standards.\u201d<\/p><p>The effect is lush, full-range, cinematic, and expressive-sounding. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot more \u2018West Side Story\u2019-influenced, I think, than the first one,\u201dnotes Devin. \u201cZiltoid-style music comes fairly readily to me. These complicated statements are things that I really enjoy doing. And to be honest, I\u2019m not at a Leonard Bernstein level of composition, but I believe that shouldn\u2019t curb the ambition to try. As always, the creative process is 5% of my efforts on a record and the rest of it is actualizing. I think that what I\u2019m hoping is that the music part of this will represent that I do want to make orchestral music one day\u2014I love that. I love the idea of what Andrew Lloyd Webber and all those guys did in the \u201870s. I can\u2019t really stomach it now because it\u2019s so dramatically over-the-top, but musically, I love it. I love being able to take complicated, sort of avant-garde music, but not have it unto itself being the focus. But that sort of avant-garde stuff really provides a theatrical backdrop for dramatic activities. When you listen to \u2018Star Wars\u2019 or any of these big John Williams-type scores, it\u2019s Stravinsky-esque sorts of things that illustrate complicated scenes, in my mind; it rationalizes writing really complicated music without going so far up my ass for it to be simply, \u2018Check out my complicated music\u2019. It\u2019s a backdrop for something that\u2019s hopefully engaging for people. I hope that the point that I\u2019m trying to make with Ziltoid and the metaphor behind it, isn\u2019t lost in just a sea of absurdity.\u201d<\/p><p>Addressing the creative tension between the two discs, Devin explains, \u201cI really worked to make sure it was the best DTP record I could do at this time and the best Ziltoid record I could do at this time. And the way it relates to the prior album is that Ziltoid was born as a result of sobriety, the life change, kids, all these sorts of things, and the character ended up becoming a personification of part of me that I was confused by. And now the story ends up that it\u2019s DTP\u2026the \u2018humans\u2019 against Ziltoid, and it\u2019s a \u2018battle\u2019 of sorts. I find that my motivations for my work are rarely apparent to me during the process, and it typically makes sense in hindsight. I would say that \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019 is a direct result of the stimulus that I have ingested as a result of a savagely busy few years. The DTP and Ziltoid side of my writing has evolved to where this statement was necessary and undoubtedly inevitable. The battle between the two seems like a great way to proceed to the next chapter of my work.\u201d<\/p><p>As noted, Devin Townsend is cognizant\u2014as well as hopeful\u2014that his fan base is studious and perceptive enough to figure all this out, to explore life and life cycles with the man and bring these hearth lessons back into their own domestic situations. But while they probe the bare and spare humanity of the \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019 record, tracks like the geometric \u201cEarth\u201d and \u201cZiltoidian Empire,\u201d plus the panoramic and muscular \u201cRejoice\u201d\u2014a replenishing form of spiritual stadium rock if there ever was\u2014will kick their asses with the metal madness that Dev uses and knows his audience enjoys.<\/p><p>Reflects Townsend in closing, \u201cI really enjoy my job, and I really want to continue being able to be creative. And this project offers me an opportunity to present myself in ways that I haven\u2019t before: as a writer, as an orchestrator, as somebody who\u2019s able to provide soundtrack stuff, as a puppeteer, as a multimedia artist, dubious comedy, all these things. I\u2019m hoping that \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019 really provides an outlet for people to see that I\u2019m capable of a lot of things, but even more so, I hope it will inspire other artists to reach for things that maybe seem a bit out of reach. I\u2019m not out to be the biggest and the best, I\u2019m hoping to achieve artistic freedom, and hopefully one day a sense of calm on a personal level. I can only hope that reaching for things that are maybe unusual in this scene will inspire others.\u201d<\/p><p>On an admittedly nerdy last note, the record \u2018Alien\u2019, by Devin\u2019s prior band, Strapping Young Lad, contained a piece called \u201cInfo Dump\u201d that was basically structured noise containing a morse code for a math equation. \u201cDuring that recording, I had happened to watch a NOVA Television special about a mathematician named Andrew Wiles who had solved something called \u2018Fermat\u2019s Last Theorem\u2019 \u2013 a problem thought previously insolvable with a very elegant solution: X2 + Y2 = Z\u00b2. Although I\u2019m far from a mathematician, I enjoyed the thought that two opposing ways of thinking could be linked by a simple equation. I was just struck with that during the \u2018Alien\u2019 time, and it just so happens that \u2018Ziltoid 2\u2019, \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019, is an answer for me\u2014of how to proceed. It just seems to tie up everything, including Strapping, in a way that I think is satisfying\u2014silly, but satisfying (laughs).\u201d<\/p><p>In the spirit of adventure, we present to you \u2018Z\u00b2\u2019.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d2dab92 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d2dab92\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;premium_particles_zindex&quot;:0,&quot;premium_particles_responsive&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9997347\" data-id=\"9997347\" data-element_type=\"column\" 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