{"id":12567,"date":"2016-10-05T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12567"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:48:00","slug":"new-music-revue-devin-townsend-project-transcend-genres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/10\/05\/new-music-revue-devin-townsend-project-transcend-genres\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Devin Townsend Project transcend genres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12568 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/devintownsendprojecttranscendencecd.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Devin Townsend Project<br \/>\n<i>Transcendence<br \/>\n<\/i>(New Damage Records)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>The Devin Townsend Project is a five-piece metal band\u2014led by Townsend, of Strapping Young Lad\u2014from Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><i>Transcendence <\/i>is the group\u2019s seventh album and has a very diverse array of songs, ranging from metal tracks to tunes with an almost-mystical ambience.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of songs on the album have few lyrics, which puts emphasis on the execution and meaning behind them; the execution is so well done that at parts it feels as if they have quite literally shoved you back with vocal and musical projection.<\/p>\n<p>The lyric-rich songs are also very powerful; \u201cHigher\u201d<i> <\/i>in particular resonates with me, with its esoteric and poetic delivery.<\/p>\n<p>This album portrays a very interesting mixture of metal and gothic vigor that will appeal to those who are already metal fans as well as those new to the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devin Townsend Project Transcendence (New Damage Records) 4\/5 The Devin Townsend Project is a five-piece metal band\u2014led by Townsend, of Strapping Young Lad\u2014from Vancouver. Transcendence is the group\u2019s seventh album and has a very diverse array of songs, ranging from metal tracks to tunes with an almost-mystical ambience. A handful of songs on the album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-5-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12569,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions\/12569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}