Ziltoid the Omniscient
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| Studio album by Devin Townsend | ||||
| Released | May 21, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | November 6, 2006 – March 1, 2007 in Townsend's home studio, the "Devlab" | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal, industrial metal, extreme metal, comedy rock | |||
| Length | 53:46 | |||
| Label | HevyDevy | |||
| Producer | Devin Townsend | |||
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Ziltoid the Omniscient is the tenth studio album by Canadian metal musician Devin Townsend, released on his own label HevyDevy Records in May 2007, and distributed in America and Europe by InsideOut Music.
The album is a concept album about an extraterrestrial being named Ziltoid from the planet Ziltoidia 9. Ziltoid travels to Earth in search of "your universe's ultimate cup of coffee". A cup of coffee is delivered to him and he is promptly appalled by its taste, declaring it "fetid", and summons the Ziltoidian warlords to attack Earth, facing the full might of Earth's army. Townsend describes the album as a mix between Strapping Young Lad and The Devin Townsend Band, with a storyline like that of Punky Brüster's Cooked on Phonics.
The album is a solo album, with all music written, mixed, produced and performed by Townsend. All drum tracks were produced with EZdrummer, a software drum machine, using the Drumkit from Hell expansion.
Townsend played a world exclusive ZTO concert in Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in Helsinki on July 2, 2010, where the whole Ziltoid album was played, with a regular Devin Townsend Project set the next day. Townsend plans to begin a series of online videos, a series titled ZTV, in which a Ziltoid hand puppet conducts interviews with various bands. Townsend had stated that he was planning to release a sequel album called Z², but plans for the album were later supposedly scrapped when he stated, "I'm very rapidly realizing that humor and metal... it doesn't really work." However, he later posted on his Twitter account, stating that the "record is vying for pole-position currently." In 2014, Townsend announced the recording of Z², making the album official. The recording of Z² started in May 2014, and the album was released on October 27, 2014.
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