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DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT Issue ‘By Your Command’ Performance Video From ‘Ocean Machine – Live At The Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv’ DVD
July 6th, 2018

Vancouver, Canada-based progressive metal group Devin Townsend Project have released a live performance video for the track ‘By Your Command’. Taken from the band’s new DVD Ocean Machine – Live At The Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv, the clip can be viewed below.

Devin Townsend Project issued live CD / DVD set Ocean Machine – Live At The Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv on July 6th, 2018 through InsideOut Music.

Live performance footage of the track ‘Regulator’, taken from the set, can be viewed below. Live performance footage of the song ‘Truth’ can also be viewed below.

Ocean Machine – Live At The Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv consists of a live performance recorded on September 22nd, 2017 at the Ancient Roman Theatre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, celebrating the 20th anniversary of July 1997 outing Ocean Machine: Biomech in full, as well as a set of fan-requested tracks alongside the Orchestra of Plovdiv State Opera.

Devin Townsend commented: “Plovdiv and this live package represents a lot to me, it signifies the end of one era, and the celebration of another. Amidst a gruelling touring year, this show came together with much blood, sweat, and tears, and the result is the culmination of many aspects of my work on one stage.

“Ocean Machine was released 20 years ago, and though Marty [Chapman, drums] is no longer with us, I was able to finally perform the album in its entirety with the original bassist John ‘Squid’ Harder on this night. On a cold evening in an old city in the ancient theatre, many lifelong milestones came to a conclusion on this night and I’m exceptionally proud of it.

“I am currently writing, writing, and writing some more for the next stage of my life and work, and the team of individuals who contributed to this project, from the musicians in the band and orchestra, to the crews locally and with this, management, artists, filmographers and most importantly, the audience… made this night a powerful and strangely bittersweet moment I am proud to have documented with this work.

“This is a very special live recording of a very special night, and I hope you enjoy it as a monument to the things that inspired it all in the first place.”

The track listing is as follows;

By Request With Orchestra

01. ‘Truth’
02. ‘Stormbending’
03. ‘Om’
04. ‘Failure’
05. ‘By Your Command’
06. ‘Gaia’
07. ‘Deadhead’
08. ‘Canada’
09. ‘Bad Devil’
10. ‘Higher’
11. ‘A Simple Lullaby’
12. ‘Deep Peace

Ocean Machine

01. ‘Seventh Wave’
02. ‘Life’
03. ‘Night’
04. ‘Hide Nowhere’
05. ‘Sister’
06. ‘3 A.M.’
07. ‘Voices In The Fan’
08. ‘Greetings’
09. ‘Regulator’
10. ‘Funeral’
11. ‘Bastard’
12. ‘The Death Of Music’
13. ‘Things Beyond Things’

Ocean Machine – Live At The Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv was made available as a limited deluxe 3CD / 2DVD / Blu-ray artwork (with liner notes from Devin and a special documentary dubbed Reflecting The Chaos on the second DVD and Blu-ray), special edition 3CD / DVD digipack, standalone Blu-ray and as a digital audio download.

Live performance footage of the tracks ‘Truth’ and ‘Regulator’ can also be viewed below.

Seventh studio record Transcendence was released in September 2016 via InsideOut Music.

Promotional live photograph by Aoife Drum-Towell.