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Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972 in New Westminster, Canada) is an influential canadian multi-instrumentalist musician, vocalist and record producer, drawing on progressive metal with influences from jazz, blues, progressive rock, industrial, ambient and classical music. He is the founding member of the extreme metal outfit Strapping Young Lad, and has released a multitude of his own albums under the monikers Ocean Machine, Devin Townsend, The Devin Townsend Band, and now Devin Townsend Project. His five-album contract deal with Strapping Young Lad was fulfilled with the release of 2006’s The New Black, leaving the band on indefinite hiatus. The Devin Townsend Band was also retired from touring later that year. Townsend has stated that he will pursue his role as a record producer for other bands and will continue to write and release self-produced albums from his home studio.
Devin is no longer contactable at his previous home email address, apparently because he has over five million unanswered messages in his inbox (as of 2 October 2008).
Devin is no longer contactable at his previous home email address, apparently because he has over five million unanswered messages in his inbox (as of 2 October 2008).
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Terria
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Accelerated Evolution
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Ziltoid the Omniscient
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Infinity
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soadmatt wrote:
Terria and Ocean Machine are sick
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KeyserSoze147 wrote:
Devin The Omniscient :D
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Drew079 wrote:
yes, bensOn- you're correct
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bens0n wrote:
or.. thats how he has all of his stuff tagged like tons of other people.
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RealKustin wrote:
Drew079> Could be because "Devin Townsend" is indicated in the "Album Artist" field.
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Drew079 wrote:
everything in my itunes just reads "Devin Townsend." (besides SYL)
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Snick422 wrote:
Ziltoooooooooooooooooooooid...the omniscient
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Claggy wrote:
DTP Rehearsal! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nadhCfFiUA Sounds amazing!
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tricksterc wrote:
The Dev. God, prophet... maybe. Best musician on the planet... yup
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dtismajesty wrote:
I actually started with Ocean Machine. It took a while, but "The Death of Music" was the one to pull me in.
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StrAzzA_666 wrote:
Devin is my hero :D [2]
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Hugo1979 wrote:
ontheupside is damn right with: Listen to Morbid Angel, Death and Carcass. All of whom have written fantastic death metal albums. Although Morbid Angel were cult scholars, Carcass were human anatomy scholars (clearly) and Chuck loved his classical music... so I guess you could say they were all nerdy bands XD
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SelfMadian wrote:
ugly mf'er
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Margarida922 wrote:
he's the man <3
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illway wrote:
Can't wait for the second installment of Ziltoid!
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ontheupside wrote:
Listen to Morbid Angel, Death and Carcass. All of whom have written fantastic death metal albums. Although Morbid Angel were cult scholars, Carcass were human anatomy scholars (clearly) and Chuck loved his classical music... so I guess you could say they were all nerdy bands XD
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LiquidEternity wrote:
Yeah. Death metal is only good if it's unabashedly nerdy.
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RealKustin wrote:
Back in the old days, I wasn't a fan of extreme metal until I listened to Ziltoid The Omniscient a couple of times. Now I know that there are death metal with human (or alien) faces. :p
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LiquidEternity wrote:
Well, Alien is his most accessible SYL album, at least to me. It all depends on where you're coming from. If you're into as bizarre and unique of music as you can find (like I tend towards), Alien or Infinity are more attention-grabbing and effective intro albums. Everybody is different.
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ontheupside wrote:
lol, I started with Alien XD Guess you can start anywhere, doesn't have to be the most accessible point!
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Bend It Like Bender
27 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/devintownsenddtb
Oh ok...here it is. 'Bend It Like Bender'(You! ...in the Nasum shirt! ...look away!!!)I know...I know...it's a pretty bippy-boppy-Euro-type dance track, but you know? guilty as charged when it comes . …
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scionizer, Haiignmuuk, hauptokonom and 2 other people added Devin Townsend to their libraries. 19 minutes ago
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FluxTheFluent tagged Devin Townsend with ‘progressive metal’. Tuesday afternoon
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