Devin Townsend is right here to inject some insanely high-energy jams into your day along with his new single “PowerNerd”. Townsend will launch an album of the identical identify on October 25, however within the meantime it’s best to get misplaced within the completely bonkers music video above (which encompasses a visitor spot from Jamey Jasta).
“It was a aware factor,” Townsend mentioned of his brand-new album, the music on which he wrote in simply 11 days. “I assumed, ‘I’ve spent a lot time overthinking each side of my work – what would occur if I did not?’ Perhaps I’d have the chance to be a bit extra direct with what it’s that I am attempting to do. I actually wished to see if I might reduce via a number of the meandering.”
On what precisely a “powernerd” is, Townsend elaborated: “I’d say {that a} powernerd can be any individual that tends that society has deemed weak or not useful, whether or not that is empathy or being an insular individual or an introvert, and turns that into a sort of non-public energy. It is like, ‘OK, yeah, I am delicate to this, that and the opposite factor, however man, I’m going to tug via! I’m going to do issues with that sensitivity which might be rooted in power.'”
PowerNerd is available for pre-order here in a number of totally different codecs, together with a Restricted 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook (that includes the album, bonus tracks and Townsend‘s first ever Dolby Atmos combine), Restricted 2CD Digipak in O-card, Commonplace CD, Gatefold 2LP & Digital Album.
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