DEVIN TOWNSEND PODCAST #9: The New Black
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Here's some more nubbins for ya...
(0:00) - Social media
(24:09) - Advertising
(31:12) - The genesis of The New Black
(35:56) - The artwork
(40:51) - The production / Recording
(47:10) - Writing The New Black / The performances
(52:23) - Lyrical themes / The songs
(1:01:48) - Summarising The New Black
(1:03:58) - Download 2006 / Dissolving SYL
(1:12:01) - Looking back on The New Black
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By your own admission, you probably won't read this. And I'll agree it's for good reasons. Still, I want to say that I'm a new fan. I ordered your new album for my son. Empath is the antithesis to what is wrong with the world today. I support you. Please continue and carry on doing what you do and I pray you become prosperous doing it. Your message is good, and we need more people with a good message in the world today.
September 14th is an odd one. My late wife who loved your voice even more than I did way back in the day, was born on this day. She's been gone a little over 22 years ago. I wish she could hear you now. Thank you for being ... you :)
This album was actually my first SYL album. Quite a journey going backwards in the discography
Me too
"maybe have respect for it and let it go"
I think that's exactly what I needed to hear right now. Thank you for being such an honest and genuine human, we all appreciate you, Dev.
good luck on your journey.
What is it you do? Hope you find a new avenue that makes you happy.
Hope you found a new job
@@peppermillers8361 I did.
@@thegreatgambeeno hell yeah
My girlfriend just said "if only he read audio books" 👍🏻👍🏻😂
Sometimes I swear he has some received pronunciation accent that I find hilarious. But hey, it's Devin, he's one in a million.
Or the phone book. I'd buy it.
Personally I have a hard time listening to audio books. Usually reading the book while listening to the audio book is comfortable for me (either that or just reading).
Last time I was this early, black was still new
I couldn't agree more about the negative effects of social media and its algorhythmic programming.
As I was listening to him talk about social media I said “THANK YOU” about 15 times in my mind because my god is it true
I know you won't read this, but thanks for sticking it out and continuing the pod casts. I know myself, and everyone else here is grateful for them. I can't wait for the Ziltoid one!
Ziltoid is the album that got me into your music, it's a masterpiece
Dev, you may be my spiritual president, I haven't quite decided yet, but maybe. I've been quite happily listening.
You've been stepping up in creative, important artistic ways, for many years. Possibly mentally, spiritually, internal balance, knowing self-wise too, from what I'm hearing here. Keep on stepping, I'd say it's working. Important work. Your content, delivery and perspective quenchers my soul! Thank. You.
From Strapping to Spirits Will Collide.. Why?..Some masterful progression. Well done, I tip my hat to you.
Your far away, close to my heart friend.
Sending mucho love from Sydney, Australia.
Greatest podcast of all time.
This podcast's balls are so big, they have gravitational pull.
Greatest comment about a podcast of all time.
@@martinemesguitar Greatest reply to a comment about a podcast of all time.
Less social media is always a good thing. "All this free floating hostility and nowhere to put it." You hit the nail.on the head, Dev...
SYL played that morning of the release at Ozzfest really cool I got the CD and got it autographed, then I had to try to not break it for the rest of the day at the festival good times
I think he's really found your stride with these podcasts now, they're just flying by and I find myself listening twice to catch the small little musical details I miss first time around
Thanks for all you do Dev.
This album holds a lot of meaning for me as the year it came out, I was dealing with a lot of heavy transformational stuff in my life. I would have liked to hear more about the lyrical and compositional inspiration of the songs on this album. This is actually my favorite SYL album. I love the riffs, lyrics, performances, and vocal hooks on The New Black.
I understand, though, that Dev needed to shed this skin to continue to make music with authenticity and integrity and not be pigeonholed into one thing. What followed after this album was so dynamic.
Thanks for all you do Devin, much Love 🙏🏻
These podcasts make my day. Thank you so much for doing these!
Awesome!!thanks dev!!!
Thank you for trunking through with these podcasts. It’s been very insight full. And relatable. Thank you
Love you Devin!
Once again, Thank You for yet another fantastic Podcast!!🙏
This one is arguably your best podcast yet. Very articulate and insightful, and also brutally honest. I loved it. Keep em coming!
Thanks again good sir, much appreciated as always.
Wise words in this podcast. So many inspirational thoughts in this that people need to take heed to lately. It just may be time to let some things go in order to have peace in our lives. Fantastic message.
Another enthralling and meaningful podcast, my favourite part of it being 'I'm writing a ton and it's going really well'....
I really like his honesty... Love the guy
This was easily one of my favorite episodes in the podcast series. Dev really stuck the landing at the end of this one. Beautifully said.
Thanks for all you are doing. Getting the opportunity to see you perform Almost Again twice on the boat was the highlight of 2020,. It's enlightening to hear that this track was your highlight of the album.
Thanks for the opportunity to meet you and sign my arm so I can get it inked on
I love listening to you talk Dev. Whether you read comments or not, and I don't blame you either way, your words, your vision of the world really resonates. So thank you. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
this podcasts are the best fairytales before sleep:) Thank You!:)
Cheers Dev! Looking forward to this :)
I remember when people started staring at their phones when this all started. I had a flip phone for many years while the screens took over the world lol. Until work provided me with one, then I too got pulled into the bs of social media but never to the extreme.
Since covid, I’ve gotten rid of social media and I couldn’t be happier! We also stopped watching the news which has also helped.
The world is the strangest it’s been in my life and I desperately hope it gets better soon.
Thank you for supplying us with your music and these podcasts as well, it’s making things better for us listeners! 🤘🤘
Loved this listen. Thanks man
The New Black is one of my favorite albums of all time
I like hearing Dev talk about his work and anxiety. I've been working in the COVID ICU since March and my sense of anxiety has dramatically lessened since then - almost cause i've been too busy to bother. But, listening to Dev talk about the way he feels has really helped me understand what all my friends and family who have been forced to do things differently than they have for years has really helped me understand what my friends' and family's anxiety looks like. Honestly, I hope Dev finds out how much these podcasts have helped (even people who don't listen to his music). Even if the world ever returns to "normal", i hope dev still checks in with everyone from time to time. His honesty is beautiful.
This is good content Dev. Positive thoughts being sent your way :)
I love the transition between that heavy jingle that slips into the soothing chords when Dev starts talking.
This was super calming.
As someone who is a huge fan of both your work with SYL and your solo material, I finally understand after all this time why SYL had to end - and why it can never exist again. Thank you for these podcasts and for sharing your mind with us.
Oooo a podcast I didnt know exsisted. This is like winning the lottery for me. Keep up the good work man and stay safe. You strike me as a person who would enjoy Alan Watts lectures.
Go back through all of them, he just nails it so much every time. I could just listen to Devy talk all day. He could read the phone book and I'd be fine.
This whole series will make you appreciate his work in a whole new manner, believe me. You're in for a ride.
Thanks Dev!!
Man I love you and your way to express.
Yes!! The Almighty Heavy Devy has finally reached the end of the S.Y.L. discography! S.Y.L. 4 Life!!!!!
Don't forget Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing.
@@RiverBelow93 Right but this is the last SYL album. Like I said it's the END. Not of this podcast though silly.
@@BigStevie Of course. Don't read too much into the comment, silly.
@@RiverBelow93 Will do silly silly!!!!
@@RiverBelow93 he technically covered it a bit in Ocean Machine and CITY.
Can’t wait for the Ziltoid one. Love you Devy, you cutie pie
Inspiring as always Dev
I watched The Social Dilemma Friday night, and the next day completely removed myself from all social media. What an amazing epoch to listen to this episode today and hear you are watching the same film, and your criticisms of social media. Likewise, I don't read much at all either. Maybe I'll try rose tea next, hahaha. Love you my brother.
Man Dev. That's pretty profound about social media. I've noticed the same, so I don't frequent the sites quite as frequently.
Devin,
Always be the mind you are and always remember you are now and you are here and doing what you desire. And that my brother is the key.
Amazing!
Your best album
Thanks Dev.
All I feel is respect, a human. And i respect this human.
Like for so many others, Covid messed up my chance to see Devin again back in March. Hopefully things will progress and permit him to come back through. These podcasts help take the sting out of it.
It's getting more and more ASMR as we go on and it's great
I wonder how much prep he puts in, it's incredible. I also liked the fact that he spoke about most of the songs individually.
I was wondering if he would talk about Dave Brockie here... Cool to hear his description of him.
Don't know if you've read Only Half There but he talks a fair bit about Dave in there. It's a great read really. :)
That's pretty wild, I've done the same this year. I just stopped using social media other than maybe checking it once a week or month. And I used to be hardcore reader when I was younger, I've now lost that ability to focus and I've been practicing it, similar to meditation, and finding more happiness through that, through being able to focus on something when I decide to cut unnecessary stuff out.
You might want to start using some kind of adblocker like ublock origin to get rid of all the invasive ads online. It will greatly help.
The New Black is the first album of SYL that got me, it was straightforward enough and had that raw emotion and energy. And the somewhat sarcastic attitude. I loved Far Beyond Metal in every way, You Suck was also something that I enjoyed. It was like my personality or what I wanted to say back then. That I knew wasn't the truth, but felt like the truth and was fun to say. It was a way to get it out of the system for not having your own words.
I fookin' love you, man.
Maybe it wouldn't be not healthy for Dev to see this, but I felt like I had to say something like that. So thanks for writing what I thought
Dear Devin and followers, since 20 years i have no TV, reading no Newspaper and dont listening to any Radiostation of my Country, Austria. Of course not strictly, sometimes it happens (more then enough)when i visiting friends. That fact makes me feel based on my own intuation. After a while you enjoy it as a gift, couse you will find out that you never take anything to serious. if any informations reaching me, my first thought is, whats behind that story? And sometimes weeks later, when thoose informations got corrected or chanched, 90% of the time i find out that i was right with my own opinion. Thats a good feeling!
I ´m a musician and i love music! thnx Mr. Townsend.... thats a lot of love!
"What is today?"
Well, Dev... it was a shitty day, but you made it great. Thanks for the upload
Yessssss
YES! =D
respect for wiping out social networks from personal life, not many people are able to do this, i got rid of them years ago and i figured that i have so much time for other actually useful things. I understand that you still need to use them, as You are a public person, but still respect for suppressing that virtual virus.
!Bravo!
I knew you watched that doco, my cousins who got me into your music told me about it.
YESSSSSSSS
Lol totally heard that in ziltoids voice!!
Well thank you UA-cam notifications
welp, here's the argument to go jogging, see ya, comfy couch...
Nah man, go jog for 1 hour and 22 minutes ;)
@@dwrbh906 that's what i meant...
I'm pretty much doing the same thing with these podcasts lol
@@tobimm2 I completely misinterpreted your comment... That's a sign I'm the lazy one
@@dwrbh906 now go jog, *_scnr_*
Zenned🙏🏻cheers bud
Alllright!
i remember listening to the new black when i came out thanks to a friend, an album wich really got me into your music. Later i found an interview where you said nb was going to be the band's last album and got me really bummed out, like "i just found this band and their breaking up" lol.
Apart from some songs, i'm not really fond of this record, but it was a cool prologue of what came after.
Oh. Hell. Yes.
Thank you for addressing how advertising is ruining the internet and how companies are 'incentivising' creators to cram this garbage down peoples throats. Its all about money rather than letting people share creativity without interruption.
The rose tea burp made me lol.
Good Lord, being a singer, it's so true. Some nights it's like I'm just out of body. Other nights it's just blah. I'm trying to get to the point that even when I'm not feeling it, I'm on. That just seems impossible though.
i really miss SYL, but i understand why You decided to move on from that project, i wish to You all the best and stay healthy!
IM DYING. 15:14 “tea” I know he meant the burp was from tea but my brain heard it as the buzz word tea lmao. I love Devin
Devin needs to release a book or box-set and name it "Ultimately - A journey into hindsight"
You know, I just realize, if one would concentrate your podcast thoughts, we would be able to start a new religion. And I'm on it straight away. We (your fans) are already kind of your worshipers. Do what you feel to do and we love it.
You Suck was my introduction to SYL and Devin back in 2010.
As an avid reader I completely understand someone's inability to focus on a book, especially the kind of book that doesn't hold your attention. Since you're into reading now I recommend Lost Horizon by James Hilton, I remember reading it during a heavy social-media induced anxiety period of my life and it helped me reframe current events in the world as less important than what's happening in my personal life right now.
I agree that TNB does not stand the test of time quite like City or Alien. I loved it when it was released but going back I can pick out maybe 2 or 3 songs I really like. The rest of the album just screams that moment in time. I can blast City today and it sounds just as relevant as it did 25 years ago.
First CD i got was City, then took a break from metal for a while, a few years ago i was overjoyed to see that SYL had made new albums and i got all of them, then i discovered DTP as well, got a bunch of those too, including some live DVDs. Still awesome!
I think that one have to make peace with your inner dark self, not push it away. Yes, the world sucks, and i also skip television (total crap nowadays), I've 100% gone over to just youtube and i watch people that talk about my specific interests, like Airplanes, Hiking, Cyber security, Tornado chasers, Documentaries etc... I miss out on some things - but i really don't care. There is too much focus on frivolous stuff like celebrities, sports and politicians in modern media.
I do read the news from time to time but I've learned to condensate it and not click on any article that looks interesting, I've also learned not to read the news to often as i get depressed when i read the news. Now, like you I'm much more happy.
Loved your demo at NAMM btw - Hillarious! :o) I still watch that from time to time.
Sad to find out Dev doesn't read comments, but whatever. Dev, you rock you godly beast!!!
Easily my fastest new video click ever: 13 seconds in.
Ima minute behind darn it
And me,about 15 secs in! A good man to listen to and incredible musician
i have the Social media problem too... so much information that i don't want to see and that's make me feel so bad... Keep scrolling for feeling worst and it's "Addictive"
It's like smoking cigarettes, just quit. You were fine before you started doing it, you'll be fine when you stop.
Dude, can you make that background music available?
✌️♥️🤟
Reading seems to take me a month to get into if I have left it awhile.
Order some Oxygen Concentrator machines for the family. Most can give 25% more oxygen and I believe filters some impurities. Portable ones would be ideal. Could get Ionizers to drop air impurities to the floor. Other air purifiers too! Keep any pets you have safe.
Funny Devs feelings towards the smell of roses. I always think of death when I smell roses, because of funerals I've been too as a kid.
Starts talking about the album at 31:12
(He might say some things before that, but I skipped through the intro and didn't pick anything up.)
Normally I'm here for Devin's self therapy but today I'm here wondering what ever happened to Snorkle the Shark?
All kidding aside keep it up Dev! Tbh it was nice knowing that you had the willpower to stop before any serious damage happened. Too many musicians would've ended up being pressured to continue and either get themselves killed 5 years later or slowly slide into mediocrity and fade away. I can tell these podcasts are really starting to help you in some way even if they were uncomfortable at first. Can't wait to hear about Ziltoid next Podcast!
Oh hooray.
Maybe we were always anxious as a species and social media finally allows us to see how big the problem is. Problems can't be solved until we understand the scale of them.
Re. ads - use Adblock/Ublock.
Lot of 7 string on this album. Something I'd like to see again on another Devin album. Wonder if he'll ever make an 8 string song lol.
He did use 8 string tunings in the past - although in his case it was a baritone 7 string. But going back to Synchestra and New Black, later on Ziltoid and Deconstruction... Planet of the Apes is an obvious reference here
Getting rid of Twitter in January 2018 was one of the best decisions I've made
we always need to search for other free, convenient and not limiting ways of consuming and letting out information, it's an infinite loop. Once it was a word -> a radio -> a TV -> a UA-cam/social networks. UA-cam became a TV-2 long time ago, something will be changed, it's inevitable, where is a demand is an offer.
Just get uBlock Origin on your browser man. I havent seen an ad on youtube in years.