Addicted

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Addicted (the Devin Townsend Project album, 2009) Addicted is the second of four planned albums by the Devin Townsend Project, a project of Canadian musician Devin Townsend. The album is Townsend's eleventh album overall, and was released on November 17, 2009. The album was written and produced by Townsend, and features Ryan Van Poederooyen, Brian Waddell, Mark Cimino, and Anneke van Giersbergen. Background According to Townsend, Addicted is an album of "melodic" and "danceable" music, but is "much heavier" than his previous albums with The Devin Townsend Band. Townsend has compared the album's songwriting to his more accessible songs, such as Life from Ocean Machine: Biomech (1997), Stagnant from Terria (2001), and Material from Physicist (2000). The album's production style was directly influenced by Nickelback's 2008 album Dark Horse. Townsend has quipped that Some parts of it sound like Meshuggah, some parts of it sound like Boney M. Addicted includes a new version of the song Hyperdrive from Townsend's 2007 album Ziltoid the Omniscient with lead vocals by van Giersbergen, who has performed a cover of the song with her current band Agua de Annique. Release The album was released on Townsend's independent label, HevyDevy Records. The album features art by Travis Smith, who did the album art for Townsend's previous albums Terria, Accelerated Evolution, and Ziltoid the Omniscient. On October 27th, Townsend posted the track Bend It Like Bender! on his MySpace page. Personnel * Devin Townsend – vocals, guitar, keyboards * Ryan Van Poederooyen – drums * Brian Waddell – bass * Mark Cimino – guitar * Anneke van Giersbergen – additional vocals Production * Devin Townsend – production, mixing * Travis Smith – art.

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