The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction (#7248)

metalgod · **Joined:** Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:50 am **Posts:** 5515

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The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
Progressive Metal
Quoted: 86 / 100

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Bruce_Bitenfils · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:52 pm

Superb review. And my thoughts exactly, after.. what, five listens ?

traptunderice · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:58 pm

Intro paragraph happened to me and it kinda has ruined this album for me. It has its moments but I can't love it.

SolarSoul25 · **Joined:** Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:14 pm **Posts:** 622

I am enjoying this album quite a bit. Needs more time to grow, but there is a lot to discover on it.

Bruce_Bitenfils · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:10 pm

traptunderice wrote:

Intro paragraph happened to me and it kinda has ruined this album for me. It has its moments but I can't love it.

Yes, and this...

Goat, in his review, wrote:

I duly went in expecting to hear Strapping Young Lad’s Shitstorm extended to album length, a dizzyingly brutal sonic scream with all the weight of human insecurities and neuroses behind it. Instead, I heard a silly album about cheeseburgers set to Meshuggah riffage with a full backing orchestra.

...is good signature material.

About2Crash · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:11 am

Good thing you did this review, Zad. I would have given it a 100. After about 50 listens I really can find no flaws. Unless Dream Theater or Mastodon pull out the best stuff of their careers I doubt anything will take the number one spot from this one.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:30 am

I kept hearing it was gonna be his heaviest. I kinda always thought that wouldn't be the case, though. He's made it abundantly clear in all his interviews that SYL is long gone and never coming back, so it's no use expecting anything like that anymore.

Still gotta get this album.

bloodpet64 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:45 am

pure fucking awesomeness!! 95 for me

bambou · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:16 am

After a really lot of listening I'd give this something very close to 100. But a very good review and i totally understand where your coming from. I personally expected this just what it is: very over the top. And I'm loving it for it.

:dio:

noodles · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:21 pm

Not sure how I feel about this. There isn't anything wrong with it that I can point to but I have a hard time listening to the whole thing in one sitting.

Bruce_Bitenfils · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:53 pm

noodles wrote:

Not sure how I feel about this. There isn't anything wrong with it that I can point to but I have a hard time listening to the whole thing in one sitting.

This is because you don't like metal, sir.

voxmonster · **Joined:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:41 am **Posts:** 204

I have been listening to Devin Townsend since the very first Strapping Young Lad album and before that with his work on the Steve Vai album Sex and Religion and I have nothing but the utmost respect for him. That being said, this heavy synth, super layered vocals, and just overall overproduction is beginning to annoy me a little. Can I hear a riff without synth behind it. It's like space metal. Cool right! Well I don't know? Maybe I need to listen more, but it's just so busy sometimes that I lose the song. This album has some amazing stuff from a incredible musician. The grandiose and profound nature of Devin Townsend's last two releases is compelling but not as catchy as Addicted. Am I the only one who wanted Addicted II? hahaha It's a great album period. I just tire of the ah ah ahh and synth syncopation with the riffs sometimes. It's a Love/Hate thing for me right now.

noodles · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:51 pm

Bruce_Bitenfils wrote:

noodles wrote:

Not sure how I feel about this. There isn't anything wrong with it that I can point to but I have a hard time listening to the whole thing in one sitting.

This is because you don't like metal, sir.

:(

Bruce_Bitenfils · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:00 pm

noodles wrote:

Bruce_Bitenfils wrote:

noodles wrote:

Not sure how I feel about this. There isn't anything wrong with it that I can point to but I have a hard time listening to the whole thing in one sitting.

This is because you don't like metal, sir.

:(

I never said it was a bad thing. :wink:

Whim · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:05 pm

As good as it is, I have a hard time enjoying it too.

A lot of the songs have that chugging guitar with the blast beats in the verse which I'm not a huge fan of.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:14 am

noodles wrote:

Bruce_Bitenfils wrote:

noodles wrote:

Not sure how I feel about this. There isn't anything wrong with it that I can point to but I have a hard time listening to the whole thing in one sitting.

This is because you don't like metal, sir.

:(

I'm in in the same boat as noodz though.

Bruce_Bitenfils · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:02 am

traptunderice wrote:

noodles wrote:

Bruce_Bitenfils wrote:

noodles wrote:

Not sure how I feel about this. There isn't anything wrong with it that I can point to but I have a hard time listening to the whole thing in one sitting.

This is because you don't like metal, sir.

:(

I'm in in the same boat as noodz though.

Which proves me wrong.

dead1 · **Joined:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:22 am **Posts:** 2250

Wow, this reviews even got me interested.

I wonder if any of the album is up on Youtube yet?

About2Crash · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:42 am

it is. i went in thinking it was either gonna be the Shitstorm/heavy/holyfuck type of thing or thinking it was going to be a culmination of devin's personality. i also heard him say it was like a musical, so the theatrical bend the album never lets up on will not be for all. for me, its up there with Alien for the best album I've heard him write.

Goat · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:22 pm

voxmonster wrote:

I have been listening to Devin Townsend since the very first Strapping Young Lad album and before that with his work on the Steve Vai album Sex and Religion and I have nothing but the utmost respect for him. That being said, this heavy synth, super layered vocals, and just overall overproduction is beginning to annoy me a little. Can I hear a riff without synth behind it. It's like space metal. Cool right! Well I don't know? Maybe I need to listen more, but it's just so busy sometimes that I lose the song. This album has some amazing stuff from a incredible musician. The grandiose and profound nature of Devin Townsend's last two releases is compelling but not as catchy as Addicted. Am I the only one who wanted Addicted II? hahaha It's a great album period. I just tire of the ah ah ahh and synth syncopation with the riffs sometimes. It's a Love/Hate thing for me right now.

No, I love Addicted and think it's easily the best of the DTP albums.

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