Terria

Occupation

• Guitar, vocals, samples: Devin Townsend
• Drums: Gene Hoglan
• Bass: Craig McFarland
• Piano, Keyboard: Jamie Meyer

Terria is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend. The album was released in November 2001 on Townsend's label HevyDevy Records. It could be placed only in France at number 125 on the album charts and number 81 in Japan on the Oricon charts.

Background

Townsend had the feeling that he had met with his previous 2000 album Physicist many fans on the head and decided to make a more personal and more honest album. The idea came to Townsend, as he and his band went one morning by Canada and decided to write an introspective album and dedicate it to his home country. The songwriting took place in Vancouver during the summer months of 2000. Townsend Terria produced with an album as a " highly illustrated stream of consciousness ". On the recordings Gene Hoglan on drums, Craig McFarland on bass and Jamie were involved Meyer on keyboards. The artwork was designed by Travis Smith, who had already worked for Psychotic Waltz, Iced Earth and Opeth.

Music

Terria was described as " melodic and atmospheric " with elements from the pop- rock and ambient coupled with typical Townsend hardness. Terria processed musical themes Townsend's earlier albums like on Ocean Machine: Biomech. Nevertheless, it is more subdued and " uses silence as a part of the music ." Townsend called Weens White Pepper as an inspiration for the album.

Publication

Terria was released in November 2001 in Townsend's independent label HevyDevy Records. In Canada it is marketed by HevyDevy, in Japan by Sony in Europe and North America by InsideOut. A limited double CD version was also released, which included a multimedia section with footage of Devin Townsend concert in Japan as well as audio commentary on the album in addition to the bonus track universal

Reviews

Sputnik Music gave the album four stars and described as Terria "is not a perfect album, but huge and if you allow it, captivating ". Michael Edele from the online magazine laut.de characterizes the album as to "ma [n ] reach places ... damn bulky ", Townsend does not care about popular song structures and Terria was to " intensity hard to beat ." Michael Rensen of music magazine Rock Hard thinks that Devin Townsend has set to music " with a perfect sense of atmosphere, dynamics and mood bows his home country of Canada and at the same time be hectic inner life". As Michael Edele of laut.de he draws parallels to the American progressive metal band Tool.

Title list

All titles have been written by Devin Townsend.