Empath (album)

Empath
Studio album by
Devin Townsend
ReleasedMarch 29, 2019 (2019-03-29)
Recorded2018
Studio
  • Monnow Valley Studios, Rockfield, Wales, UK;
  • The Armoury Studios, The Farm, Devlab, and The Armory, Vancouver, Canada;
  • The Grid, Montreal, Canada
GenreProgressive metal, avant-garde metal
Length74:08
Label
ProducerDevin Townsend
Devin Townsend chronology
Transcendence
(2016) 		Empath
(2019) 		The Puzzle / Snuggles
(2021)
Devin Townsend solo chronology
Dark Matters
(2014) 		Empath
(2019) 		The Puzzle / Snuggles
(2021)
Singles from Empath
  1. "Genesis"
    Released: February 22, 2019
  2. "Evermore"
    Released: March 15, 2019
  3. "Spirits Will Collide"
    Released: March 29, 2019
  4. "Why?"
    Released: September 16, 2019
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic84/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Consequence of SoundB+[3]
Exclaim!8/10[4]
Metal Injection9.5/10[5]
MetalSucks[6]
Sonic Perspectives9/10[7]
Sputnikmusic4.5/5[8]

Empath is the eighteenth studio album by Canadian metal musician Devin Townsend, released on his own label HevyDevy Records on March 29, 2019. It is his first solo album since Dark Matters, which was a part of the 2014 double album Z², and his first release to act solely as a solo album since 2007's Ziltoid the Omniscient.

  1. ^ "Empath by Devin Townsend".
  2. ^ "Empath - Devin Townsend". AllMusic. 2019.
  3. ^ "Devin Townsend's Glorious Sonically-Schizoid Journey Continues on Empath". Consequence of Sound. March 26, 2019.
  4. ^ "Devin Townsend: Empath". Exclaim!. March 29, 2019.
  5. ^ "Album Review: DEVIN TOWNSEND Empath".
  6. ^ "Album Review: Devin Townsend Achieves Enlightenment with Empath". MetalSucks. March 27, 2019.
  7. ^ "Devin Townsend - Empath (album review)". sonicperspectives.com.
  8. ^ "Devin Townsend - Empath (album review ) | Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com.