Devin Townsend is Recording with His New Band Powernerd
Everyone’s favorite madcap Canadian composer and all around nice guy of metal Devin Townsend is back in the studio again, only this time it’s with his project, Powernerd.
Earlier, Townsend posted a video update saying he’s been writing and tracking with the band for the past two weeks. In the clip, he explained that he gave himself 12 days to write songs, a single day to practice, and two-and-half days to record with a band he called “He also calls the band “exceptionally heavy.”
He says about the project:
“Powernerd was written with a very clear intent for me. I feel that I typically have been — and it’s not always been a bad thing — but I tend to overthink things a lot. And I get really complicated with things that sometimes … at least right now I felt like that wasn’t what I wanted to do, so I gave myself parameters for Powernerd.
“I gave myself twelve days to write it, and 1 day to rehearse it. Darby Todd came in from the U.K. and then two and a half days to track drums, bass and guitar. And if it was to not work it would have been a colossal failure. But I’m happy to say it’s exceptionally heavy, and exceptionally cool.”
In a past interview, he has spoken out about keeping it heavy but diverse when it comes to what he listens to, so we think some diverse elements will show up on this latest project.
“It’s not like if you are in a certain genre you should limit yourself to that, otherwise you’re stepping outside,” he said. “It’s like there’s no nuance between opinions lately, is what it seems. It’s not like you can say, ‘I do believe that but I also believe that. I agree with you. I also agree with them, and somewhere between that, it’s a grey area. It’s not so black and white.’ Listening habits for me were never black and white. I loved everything – except for the stuff that I didn’t love and I absolutely hated!”
“I think when I first came out people were like, ‘I don’t understand.’ It seems indicative of some kind of schizophrenic personality disorder that you would release something like ‘Oh My Fucking God’ and then also do things like ‘Thing Beyond Things’, or do ‘Death Of Music’, or ‘Punky Brewster’, and I was always confused by that because I thought, ‘No. I like all of those different things.”
