After the release of ‘Ki’ – the first of his “Project” albums in 2009, Devin Townsend announced that eventually all four of the Devin Townsend Project releases would be issued as a lavish box set with a wealth of unreleased material.
‘Contain Us’ – the proposed box set – is released on November 29th – and features the following stuff:
DVDs
DVD 1
* Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, 2010
* “Coast” promo video
* “Bend It Like Bender” promo video
* “Supercrush” promo video
* “Juular” promo video
* NAMM 2011 show
DVD 2 (Data disc with audio/video files)
* NAMM 2011 show (audio files)
* Audio commentary for all four albums
* Live in the USA, 2010 (audio files)
01. Supercrush
02. Kingdom
03. Truth
04. Om
05. By Your Command
* “Bend It Like Bender” song stems for remixing
* “Juular” song stems for remixing
* Poopynuggeteer’s YouTube video clips
* Deep Thoughts videos
CDs
“Ki:
01. A Monday
02. Coast
03. Disruptr
04. Gato
05. Terminal
06. Heaven Send
07. Ain’t Never Gonna Win…
08. Winter
09. Trainfire
10. Lady Helen
11. Ki
12. Quiet Riot
13. Demon League
“Addicted”
01. Addicted
02. Universe in a Ball
03. Bend It Like Bender
04. Supercrush!
05. Hyperdrive!
06. Resolve!
07. Ih-Ah!
08. The Way Home!
09. Numbered
10. Awake!!
“Deconstruction” (remastered)
01. Praise The Lowered
02. Stand
03. Juular
04. Planet Of The Apes
05. Sumeria
06. The Might Masturbator
07. Pandemic
08. Deconstruction
09. Poltergeist
“Ghost” (remastered)
01. Fly
02. Heart Baby
03. Feather
04. Kawaii
05. Ghost
06. Blackberry
07. Monsoon
08. Dark Matters
09. Texada
10. Seams
11. Infinite Ocean
12. As You Were
Official bonus tracks from all four albums:
01. Synchronicity Freaks
02. Om-2011
03. Catwalk (Fucker rework)
04. Juno
05. Ho Krll
06. Radial Highway
07. Watch You
08. Traestorz
09. Sticks And Stones
Demos from each album plus various unused/unreleased songs:
01. Coast (demo)
02. Disruptr (demo)
03. Gato Negro (demo)
04. Addicted (demo)
05. Numbered (demo)
06. Timmy (Awake! Demo)
07. Stand (demo)
08. Juular (demo)
09. Brown Man (demo)
10. Pandemic (demo)
11. Madd At My Dadd (demo)
12. Flies (Fly demo)
13. Call Management (demo)
14. Freedom (Kawaii demo)
15. Two Turntables And A Mike St-Jean (Kitchen Aid mix)
The 6 CD + 2 DVD set is limited to 4500 copies and retails for $80.
A super deluxe edition was available very briefly. For an extra $20 fans could obtain an extra piece of vinyl containing two more unreleased tracks: ‘Dinosaurs’ and ‘A Ziltoidian Rapture’. Unfortunately, this has already sold out.
‘Contain Us’ sounds like the ultimate Devin fan item and a must have.