'And I really mean solo, in the true sense of the word', explained Townsend. Townsend then began work on his next solo album, Ziltoid the Omniscient. Townsend released an ambient album, The Hummer, around this time.

Around this time, Townsend withdrew from touring with his extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad and his progressive metal group The Devin Townsend Band, explaining that he was burnt out on touring and interviewing. Townsend's wife, Tracy Turner, gave birth to their first son, Reyner Liam Johnstan Townsend, on October 4, 2006. The recording of Z² started in May 2014, and the album was released on October 27, 2014. In 2014, Townsend announced the recording of Z², a sequel to the original rock opera. Townsend published a series of online videos involving Ziltoid in a series titled ZTV. Townsend played a world exclusive ZTO concert in Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in Helsinki on July 2, 2010, where the whole Ziltoid album was played, with a regular Devin Townsend Project set the next day. All drum tracks were produced with EZdrummer, a software drum machine, using the Drumkit from Hell expansion. The album is a solo album, with all music written, mixed, produced and performed by Townsend.

Townsend describes the album as a mix between Strapping Young Lad and The Devin Townsend Band, with a storyline like that of Punky Brüster's Cooked on Phonics. A cup of coffee is delivered to him and he is promptly appalled by its taste, declaring it 'fetid', and summons the Ziltoidian warlords to attack Earth, facing the full might of Earth's army. Ziltoid travels to Earth in search of 'your universe's ultimate cup of coffee'. The album is a concept album about an extraterrestrial being named Ziltoid from the planet Ziltoidia 9. Ziltoid the Omniscient is the tenth studio album by Canadian metal musician Devin Townsend, released on his own label HevyDevy Records in May 2007, and distributed in America and Europe by InsideOut Music.

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