{"id":529720,"date":"2026-03-11T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:03:11","slug":"devin-townsend-has-finally-announced-his-lifes-work-the-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529720\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Townsend has finally announced his life\u2019s work, The Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devin Townsend<\/a> has announced his self-described \u201clife\u2019s work\u201d The Moth, almost 10 years after he first teased it as a \u201csymphony of cocks and vaginas and death\u201d.<\/p>\n

The prog metal<\/a> polymath \u2013 known for his work in Strapping Young Lad, The Devin Townsend Project, Casualties Of Cool and more \u2013 has finally officially confirmed the new album, which contains 24 songs as well as lots of symphonic elements and choirs. It\u2019s set to drop on May 29 via Inside Out. See the artwork and tracklisting below, and listen to the newly-released lead single Enter The City.<\/p>\n

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Townsend calls The Moth \u201ca loose story following someone who realises that old patterns of behaviour are no longer serving them. By digging in and sitting with themselves, an internal conflict is revealed, one they may have been resisting or unconsciously rationalizing for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old, no stranger to making larger-than-life concept albums, first hinted at The Moth\u2019s existence in 2016, saying that it was \u201cmuch different\u201d than his then-latest release, Transcendence<\/a> by The Devin Townsend Project. He elaborated in a 2017 interview with Vice, saying he needed 10 million dollars to get the concept, then envisioned as a live show, off of the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole show is a metaphor for sex and power, and the idea of it all being related to some sort of God who\u2019s ultimately futile,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s this symphony with all these cocks and vaginas and death and it\u2019s gotta be so over-the-top, with symphonies and choirs and it\u2019s got to include the best of the best and it\u2019s so fucking expensive!<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to not think about money, but what I want to do is just get so much money, absurd amounts of money, and just put it all into this thing that\u2019s a fundamentally unsellable spectacle, but make it so palatable that halfway through you\u2019ll just be like, \u2018The fuck are we watching here?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Townsend kept working on The Moth behind-the-scenes, while continuing to release solo albums and tour. He indicated that the concept had switched from a show to an album in 2024, when he announced his record Powernerd<\/a> and said that it would be part of a trilogy featuring The Moth. He said The Moth would be \u201corchestral, over-the-top, dark and uncomfortable\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Townsend performed material from The Moth with an orchestra and choir last March, playing two exclusive shows in the Netherlands, the second of which was live-streamed around the world. Despite the global attention, he said that these concerts would be the only time The Moth would be performed in such a way.<\/p>\n

Townsend has no live plans following the release of The Moth, as he announced in April that he was taking a hiatus from the road. He said in a statement: \u201cBooking tours now means planning up to two years in advance. With fewer venues, fewer crews, and a saturated touring circuit, it\u2019s become more challenging than ever to line things up.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd beyond the logistics, life has simply caught up with me: my parents need help, my dogs are on their last legs, the kids have moved out, The Moth is nearly complete, and truthfully, I need some time to breathe and recalibrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

DEVIN TOWNSEND \u2013 Enter The City (OFFICIAL VIDEO) – YouTube
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(Image credit: Inside Out)<\/p>\n

01. Semi-prologue
02. War Beyond Words
03. The Moth
04. Ode To My Eye
05. Enter The City
06. Covered By Causes
07. Lexin
08. Runaways
09. A Proxy For God
10. The Mothers
11. Orion
12. Stay There
13. Home At Night
14. Intermission
15. Lexin Returns
16. The Clergy
17. Prepare For War
18. The Big Snit
19. Silver Princess
20. A Life In Review
21. Metamorphosis
22. Stained Hearts
23. Let Go
24. We Don\u2019t Deserve Dogs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Townsend has announced his self-described \u201clife\u2019s work\u201d The Moth, almost 10 years after he first teased it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-529720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}