Infinity (Devin Townsend album)
Occupation
- Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Keyboard: Devin Townsend
- Drums: Gene Hoglan
Infinity (Eng. infinity ) is the second solo album by the Canadian rock musician Devin Townsend. It was released on 21 October 1998 at his own record label HevyDevy Records and peaked in the Japanese album chart top spot 29
Formation
The album Devin Townsend wrote in early 1997 in Australia and the United States. For him, the album is the " soundtrack to the return of Jesus " and a very personal album, where his parents and his sister are heard as background singers. The recordings lasted for a period of over one year and began in April 1997. They were interrupted by a stay Townsend in a psychiatric hospital. The first mix of May 1998 Townsend was so unhappy that he went in August 1998 to the Hippo Sonic Studio, created a second mix and both combined together. This no longer was enough time to process the lyrics for the booklet, which is why the first edition contained no texts.
The cover shows several nude photos of Townsend as androgynous beings, who thus wanted to express that it is not the appearance of an artist that counts, but only his music.
Title list
Reviews
Michael Rensen of music magazine Rock Hard shows in comparison to the predecessor Ocean Machine: Biomech disappointed Townsend negligible songwriting and put too much on futuristic sound. As highlights he calls the catchy Christeen and mixed with trombones Industrial - piece bath Devil, however, believes that the rest of the songs " track, in an apocalyptic, slightly monotonous sound overkill " sink. Noticed Jörg Graf Baby Blue from the online magazine pages that Infinity aufwarte with the typical Townsend bombastic and brutal sound, but that the songs were not good enough. He criticized Allerweltsmelodien, the constant repetition of the same riffs and the same old arrangements. It will hardly built up tension and nothing really stay in my memory stick. However, he also praises Bad Devil as " verrocktes Spiritual " and the instrumental Ants as a lesson of how to set to music an anthill.