Devin Townsend

Karl Hungus · 23-05-2007 10:06pm #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyi5mowUt4I

I've been listening to Synchestra half the day, and it just really hits home how awesome Devy is. Whether it's with the Devin Townsend band, or Strapping Young Lad, he's just amazing.

This is possibly one of the best music videos ever made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyVuheZx4BQ

Here's the man himself with the awesome Strapping Young Lad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bAGGZy5j9A

Phenominally good band, and you guys should recognise Gene Hoglan on drums. If you're not familiar with them, check out the album Alien quickly, it's immense!

billycox · 24-05-2007 12:16pm

Totally agree, the mans a legend.

Karl Hungus · 24-05-2007 6:05pm

billycox wrote:

Totally agree, the mans a legend.

Yeah, but oddly, not much appreciation shown here.

projectmayhem · 24-05-2007 6:51pm

Karl Hungus wrote:

Yeah, but oddly, not much appreciation shown here.

sad but true.

the amount of quality he outputs isn't reflected at all in fan appreciation.

anyway, i think synchestra is his best work to date (imo)... better then anything syl has done (not that syl has done anything sub-par though!). it's sex for your ears

devy wevy poo for president!

Karl Hungus · 24-05-2007 6:57pm

Yeah, I'm still listening to Synchestra on repeat today, it really is awesome. Although it's odd, I didn't listen to it all that much when I first got it, it's seemed to have really grown on me.

faceman · 24-05-2007 8:46pm

havent heard of him before, but thats pretty good. Has he gigged in ireland before?

Alucard II · 25-05-2007 12:46am

of course he broke up SYL and his solo stuff quite recently; interesting to see what happens next. Dev is the Skullet King

Patricide · 25-05-2007 12:59am

Alucard II wrote:

of course he broke up SYL and his solo stuff quite recently; interesting to see what happens next. Dev is the Skullet King

yea skullet, BIG TIME. I liked some of the stuff on alien when i listened to it ages ago, other stuff iw asnt so much a fan of. Love is still deffinatly one of the best songs EVER

Fozzy · 25-05-2007 1:39am

He's done some awesome stuff alright. Wouldn't mind seein him live

Karl Hungus · 31-05-2007 4:10pm

Yeah, big pity he broke up the bands, but he's still created an incredible portfolio of good music, the likes of which most bands couldn't dream of.

I'm waiting on Ziltoid to be delivered now.

Synchestra is still in the CD drive, on repeat.

brianthebard · 31-05-2007 4:17pm

I was actually going to say that syl seemed very samey from what I had heard...then I listened to the first song. Its pretty fricking brilliant, definitely upped my opinion of Townsend and his projects. Good show Karl!

Karl Hungus · 31-05-2007 6:45pm

brianthebard wrote:

I was actually going to say that syl seemed very samey from what I had heard...then I listened to the first song. Its pretty fricking brilliant, definitely upped my opinion of Townsend and his projects. Good show Karl!

Aye, SYL was always about full-on heaviness, so it's hardly going to be varied. His solo stuff / Devin Townsend Band is a lot more varied, and more prog orientated.

There's still a lot of his stuff I haven't got yet, or even heard yet, such as his ambient Devlab stuff. I need to get ahold of a lot of his solo albums, as I don't have Terria, Physicist and Infinity yet, aswell as SYL's The New Black, City and Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing.

I can't wait to hear Ziltoid The Omniscient, as it supposedly sounds somewhere between SYL and DTB.

Here's some classic Devy though: