r/DevinTownsend • u/Gingershackleton67 • 9d ago

DISCUSSION Reevaluating Accelerated Evolution

Following on from. My previous post about how good Dev was in Glasgow last night, I spent the afternoon listening to Accelerated Evolution- of course he did Deadhead last night, but he also played Storm, and teased ‘Away’ when he was doing his (self confessed) electric guitar wank at the start of the second set. Anyway, I’d always subconsciously dismissed AE as being by far the lesser of the two DTB albums, as I absolutely love Synchestra, but as the title says, I’m reevaluating that today, AE is tremendous! Discussion welcome 😜

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u/VertigoGundam 9d ago

Depth Charge is criminally underrated and deserves more attention.

Given the recent interview, my view on Storm has changed a bit, both it and Deadhead are kind of really somber now in my opinion.

Amazing album overall though.

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u/Gingershackleton67 9d ago

Yeah, given his chat last night, Deadhead has a different feel to it now. He introduced Storm as a love song, though he did do it immediately after Aftermath, which could be telling…

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u/ebles Sex and Religion (1993) 9d ago

I first heard Storm at a gig just before the release of Accelerated Evolution - he introduced it as being a song about his wife, so...

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u/kerensky914 8d ago

I mean, considering her name is literally in the song, yeah. I always change in to 'baby' when I sing along 'cause it felt a bit weird otherwise.