Addicted (album)

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Addicted
Studio album by Devin Townsend

Publication
(s)

November 17, 2009

Label (s) Inside Out

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

AOR / heavy metal

Title (number)

10

running time

46 min. 49 sec.

occupation
  • Bass : Brian Waddell
  • Drums : Ryan Van Poederooyen

production

Devin Townsend

chronology
Ki
(2009) 		Addicted Deconstruction
(2011)

Addicted is the eleventh studio album by the Canadian musician Devin Townsend . The album was released on November 17, 2009. It is the second in a series of four albums under the name Devin Townsend Project . Anneke van Giersbergen, ex-singer of The Gathering , first worked with Townsend on Addicted. She sings most of the pieces on the album. The album is the second release in the album cycle that began with Ki .

Track list

  1. Addicted! - 5:37
  2. Universe in a Ball! - 4:09
  3. Bend It Like Bender! - 3:37
  4. Supercrush! - 5:13
  5. Hyperdrive! - 3:36
  6. Resolve! - 3:12
  7. Uh-ah! - 3:45
  8. The Way Home! - 3:14
  9. Numbered! - 4:55
  10. Awake !! - 9:44

Sales figures and chart positions

In the United States , the album sold 3,700 times within the first week of release, bringing the album to number 168 on the Billboard 200 charts . On the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) the album took second place. In Finland, the album ranked 36th in its first week of release.

Others

  • The title “Bend it like Bender” alludes to the film “Bend it like Beckham” (German: Kick it like Beckham ) and to the character Bender from the animated film series Futurama . It contains a short sample of a Bender speech sequence.
  • Townsend came into contact with Anneke van Giersbergen because she happened to contact him by email shortly before the scheduled start of admission. She sent him a link to a video recording of her band with which she interpreted the song "Hyperdrive", which was originally included on Townsend's album "Ziltoid the Omniscient". This convinced Townsend so much that he decided to invite van Giersbergen as a guest singer as well as to record a new version of "Hyperdrive".
  • Townsend said he had dreamed the song “Ih-Ah!”, Which also explains the title that was so in the dream. Townsend reports that he woke up at 3:30 in the morning with the song in his head and immediately started recording it - the recording was completed by noon that day, except for the singing. Since it was created after the actual recording sessions for Addicted had already been completed, according to the information in the booklet of the CD, this song is not performed by Anneke van Giersbergen, but by Susanne Richter in the background. Townsend also created the drums for this song with the drum computer software Drumkit From Hell .
  • According to the album's booklet, the song "Resolve!" Was directly influenced by the English band The Wildhearts, of which Townsend was a member in 1994.
  • Townsend said it used more than 250 audio tracks per song on Twitter .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blabbermouth : 'Addicted' Lands On BILLBOARD Chart - Nov. 25, 2009 ( Memento from September 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Devin Townsend - Addicted ( en ) finnishcharts.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  3. ^ A b Eleanor Goodman: Devin Townsend. In: Bizarremag.com. October 2009, archived from the original on November 19, 2011 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Chad Bowar: Interview with Devin Townsend ( English ) Heavymetal.about.com. November 19, 2009. Archived from the original on December 2, 2009. Retrieved on July 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ Devin Townsend: well beyond 250 tracks per ... . Twitter.com. August 30, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2016.

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