Well, it's hard to market a "brand" so to speak if the name keeps changing-- keeps it from being consistent. I think the logo and pressures from management that I think are well placed will keep the DTP name in place. That, and the title "project" gives a lot of room to do whatever he wants with it, like he has. It isn't pigeon holed to a certain type of music or anything.

That would be an interesting change of pace. The reason I said that was because in several interviews (I know, Devy talking about stuff), he made it sound like DTP was only for the 4 albums and the only reason why Epicloud was included was because the label wanted an album that summed up the most marketable aspects of the four preceding albums.

In the "Dev interviews Dev" thing for Metal Injection he does indeed make it sound pretty clear that the four albums & Epicloud saw the end of the Devin Townsend Project.

I must admit that I was half expecting CoC (no, not Corrosion Of Conformity) to come out under a new name or just Devin's with the 'Project' dropped?

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In the "Dev interviews Dev" thing for Metal Injection he does indeed make it sound pretty clear that the four albums & Epicloud saw the end of the Devin Townsend Project.

I must admit that I was half expecting CoC (no, not Corrosion Of Conformity) to come out under a new name or just Devin's with the 'Project' dropped?

"The project" itself, sure. But he's said multiple times he's keeping the name

In the "Dev interviews Dev" thing for Metal Injection he does indeed make it sound pretty clear that the four albums & Epicloud saw the end of the Devin Townsend Project.

I must admit that I was half expecting CoC (no, not Corrosion Of Conformity) to come out under a new name or just Devin's with the 'Project' dropped?

"The project" itself, sure. But he's said multiple times he's keeping the name

I never saw that he said that, but I haven't seen/heard a few of his interviews in the last couple months. It will be interesting to see him not bounce between project names for the first time in his career. XD

I'm pretty sure he said CoC was gonna be separate from the DTP. He was even working on a new logo for the album, but it ended up looking like A Perfect Circle.

I have no doubt it will be conceptually different from the DTP, but I would put money on the name staying. I work in marketing and the number one thing you want to sell a product is consistency of message surrounding that product. With a bunch of different names you can't have that and with Dev wanting to expand to do more things like RC I'm positive it'll stay DTP.

I have no doubt it will be conceptually different from the DTP, but I would put money on the name staying. I work in marketing and the number one thing you want to sell a product is consistency of message surrounding that product. With a bunch of different names you can't have that and with Dev wanting to expand to do more things like RC I'm positive it'll stay DTP.

I don't think it'll stay DTP forever but I 100% agree with the rest, it's very problematic. Record stores may place 'Devin Townsend Project' under 'D' and 'Devin Townsend' under 'T', then there's the issue of which music section as a number of his album covers don't look metal.

I have no doubt it will be conceptually different from the DTP, but I would put money on the name staying. I work in marketing and the number one thing you want to sell a product is consistency of message surrounding that product. With a bunch of different names you can't have that and with Dev wanting to expand to do more things like RC I'm positive it'll stay DTP.

I don't think it'll stay DTP forever but I 100% agree with the rest, it's very problematic. Record stores may place 'Devin Townsend Project' under 'D' and 'Devin Townsend' under 'T', then there's the issue of which music section as a number of his album covers don't look metal.

He did have a tag on the back of some of his previous albums that said File Under Metal, maybe he could bring that back for Casualties.
DTP might work for Casualties, though I doubt it will apply to Z2.

I have no doubt it will be conceptually different from the DTP, but I would put money on the name staying. I work in marketing and the number one thing you want to sell a product is consistency of message surrounding that product. With a bunch of different names you can't have that and with Dev wanting to expand to do more things like RC I'm positive it'll stay DTP.

I don't think it'll stay DTP forever but I 100% agree with the rest, it's very problematic. Record stores may place 'Devin Townsend Project' under 'D' and 'Devin Townsend' under 'T', then there's the issue of which music section as a number of his album covers don't look metal.

He did have a tag on the back of some of his previous albums that said File Under Metal, maybe he could bring that back for Casualties.
DTP might work for Casualties, though I doubt it will apply to Z2.

i remember him saying in a interview that "DTP" evolved into 6 albums

I have no doubt it will be conceptually different from the DTP, but I would put money on the name staying. I work in marketing and the number one thing you want to sell a product is consistency of message surrounding that product. With a bunch of different names you can't have that and with Dev wanting to expand to do more things like RC I'm positive it'll stay DTP.

I don't think it'll stay DTP forever but I 100% agree with the rest, it's very problematic. Record stores may place 'Devin Townsend Project' under 'D' and 'Devin Townsend' under 'T', then there's the issue of which music section as a number of his album covers don't look metal.

He did have a tag on the back of some of his previous albums that said File Under Metal, maybe he could bring that back for Casualties.
DTP might work for Casualties, though I doubt it will apply to Z2.

i remember him saying in a interview that "DTP" evolved into 6 albums

would be nice to just leave it as DTP after having Devin Townsend, Devin Townsend Band, Devin Townsend Presents, etc. especially if he sticks with the same live band, that's probably the main thing rather than how it'll be catalogued. casualties may be under something else but i can def see at least Z2 sticking w/ DTP.

No, based on his recent interview with Metalhammer, it sounds like Z2 will most def only be him.

The DTP logo is great. It is one of those simple but effective logos that artists always hope to find, because it makes marketability much easier. The DTP name and logo will be around for a while, but probably only on albums and tours the label wants to push.

So it's not Project anymore? Shit, I got the DTP logo tattooed on my arm. its a kickass logo

^It's still possible Casualties will have DTP. Besides, the logo is still awesome and a celebration of established music. I intend to get it at some point, even if Dev stops using it in future.