After announcing that he’ll be taking a break from the Devin Townsend Project moniker to focus on other styles of music, it seems that Heavy Devy has a whole lot more new music in the can than the four albums he teased last fall. To be fair, that was a whole FIVE months ago, which in Devin-Time is like an eternity — he probably wrote an album’s worth of songs in the time it’s taken me to pen this paragraph.

According to a Twitter outburst early this morning, Devin’s got more than 100 song ideas sketched out in “different forms and styles,” including “orchestral, some metal, some rock, some prog, some bizzare, some funky, some pop, some electronic.” He’ll start recording tomorrow and plans to utilize a diverse cast of players, each uniquely suited for a specific role, in a variety of different recording locations. Someone named Morgan will play drums on at least some of that material; our best guess is Morgan Ågren, who played on Devin’s 2014 Casualties of Cool album and on whose solo album Devin appeared in 2015.

And that’s about all the info we have for now. Presumably — hopefully!! god willing — that $10 million symphony about dicks and vaginas is included in the 100 song tally.

Here’s the Twitter dump:

I start recording tomorrow. — Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018

Nice to be working with my friend Morgan on a bunch of this material. We sit in a similar place on the beat and we tend to go pretty deep quite quickly. I like his swing. Lots of talented artists involved in this stuff. It’s an odd phase, but really creative and really personal. — Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018

I have about 100 songs in different forms and styles. I’m just going to finish as much of it as budget allows and see what goes where. It’s been a change period, similar to between SYL and KI I’d say. I’m hiring people as needed for whatever the song calls for. — Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018

There will be other drummers too I think. Depends on the track — Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018

I’ll be traveling a fair bit to various cities and working with people as I go. Polygamous creativity ftw — Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018

I’ll certainly keep folks updated as I go, if budget allows, I’ll try to do filming of the process. (Hey hey, @ZimZimY5000 … :) — Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018

It seems like much of the material calls for different things. Some orchestral, some metal, some rock, some prog, some bizzare, some funky, some pop, some electronic…I want the best people for what that style needs. — Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018

I know who I’m interested in working with already, it’s all just about scheduling and budget etc. Everyone is busy all the time :) and that’s a good thing… — Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 26, 2018

[via The PRP]