“Deathray” has a new lyric video, and it’s an intergalactic trip worth taking.


Canadian singer/songwriter/producer and multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend informed the world earlier that he would be creating a dual album for release later this year. Of the two disks, one will be by The Devin Townsend Project, called “Sky Blue”, and the other will be a follow-up to Townsend’s 2007 Ziltoid album, called, “Dark Matters.” The entire project is called Z² and it comes out October 27, worldwide. Already released: part one of a video series for the new Ziltoid album. The Devin Townsend Project will also be touring this fall.

Townsend spoke to Independent about the new Ziltoid album earlier:

“My view on the second disc, ‘Dark Matters’, is different again. Seven years have gone by since the first ‘Ziltoid’. That was a really psychological record for me and he was a representation of me at that time. You know, I’d just had a kid, I was coming out of drugs and quitting my band, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, stuff like that. I just don’t care about that stuff as much as I did. I’ve got other kids around me now, like my sister’s kids and my neighbor’s kids and they became really interested in Ziltoid and started giving me ideas for the story. So ‘Z2’ ended up being like a story for kids, just with really savage music, orchestras, choirs and all that stuff. I started thinking about ‘Who am I trying to reach with this record?'”

As for the new lyric video? It’s an intergalactic lyrical trip. It’s very shiny. It starts out with our alien overlord Ziltoid telling Earth that “Resistance is Futile!” The aliens also want our coffee.

The lyric video goes through various space scenes, in an almost video-game like style. It’s got a narrative that will carry through the album. The music itself is energetic, with just enough harshness. Metal Hammer calls Townsend’s work “unhinged metallic mayhem,” and that’s really what you get. It’s catchy. It’s dark. It’s raw and screams at you to listen.