Infinity (album)

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Infinity
Studio album by Devin Townsend

Publication
(s)

October 21, 1998

admission

April 1997 to August 1998

Label (s) HevyDevy Records

Genre (s)

Progressive metal

Title (number)

10

running time

46min 41s

occupation

production

Devin Townsend

Studio (s)

Red Stripe Studios, Burnaby ( British Columbia )

chronology
Ocean Machine: Biomech
(1996) 		Infinity Physicist
(2000)

Infinity ( dt. Infinity ) is the second album of the solo Canadian rock musician Devin Townsend . It was released on October 21, 1998 by his own record label HevyDevy Records and reached number 29 in the Japanese album charts .

Emergence

Devin Townsend wrote the album in early 1997 in Australia and the USA . For him the album is the “ soundtrack to the return of Jesus ” and a very personal album, on which his parents and his sister can be heard as background singers. The recordings stretched over a period of over a year and began in April 1997. They were interrupted by Townsend's stay in a psychiatric clinic. Townsend was so dissatisfied with the first mix from May 1998 that he went to Hipposonics Studio in August 1998 , made a second mix and combined the two. This meant that there was not enough time to prepare the lyrics for the booklet , which is why the first edition did not contain any lyrics.

The cover shows several nude photos of Townsend as an androgynous being, who wanted to express that it is not the artist's appearance that counts, only his music.

Track list

  1. Truth - 3:58
  2. Christeen - 3:41 (Townsend / Ginger)
  3. Bad Devil - 4:52
  4. Was - 6:29
  5. Soul Driven Cadillac - 5:14
  6. Ants - 2:01
  7. Wild Colonial Boy - 3:04
  8. Life Is All Dynamics - 5:08
  9. Unity - 6:07
  10. Noisy Pink Bubbles - 5:22

Reviews

Michael Rensen from the music magazine Rock Hard shows up in comparison to its predecessor Ocean Machine: Biomech disappointed, Townsend neglected the songwriting and relied too much on futuristic sound. The highlights he calls the catchy Christeen and with trumpets offset Industrial -Stück Bad Devil , however, believes that the rest of the songs "monotonous in parts in an apocalyptic, easy sound overkill" sink. Jörg Graf from the online magazine Babyblaue Seiten notes that Infinity comes up with the bombastic and brutal sound that is typical for Townsend, but that the songs are not good enough. He criticizes commonplace melodies, the constant repetition of the same riffs and the same arrangements . There is hardly any tension built up and nothing really sticks in the memory. However, he also praises Bad Devil as a "rocky spiritual " and the instrumental Ants as a lesson in how to set an anthill to music.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Rensen: Beyond good and bad . Interview with Devin Townsend. In: Rock Hard . No. 139 .
  2. ↑ Michael Rensen: Devin Townsend: Infinity . In: Rock Hard . No. 138 .
  3. ^ Jörg Graf: Devin Townsend: Infinity. Baby Blue Pages, November 10, 2004, accessed October 30, 2010 .

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