Saturday 31 May 2008
Devin Townsend
Artist: Devin Townsend
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal
Discography:
Presents: Ziltoid the Omniscient
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Terria
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Accelerated Evolution
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Ocean Machine-Biomech
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Physicist
Year:
Tracks: 12
Infinity
Year:
Tracks: 10
Industrial metal singer/guitarist Devin Townsend was born May 5, 1972 in Vancouver, BC; later picking up the banjo at age five, at 12 he affected to guitar, and inside a few old age was preeminent the set Grey Skies, later known as Noisescapes. Sending the group's demo to the Relativity label, Townsend was non only offered a solo sell simply was too tapped to sing on Steve Vai's 1993 LP Sex and Religion, a coaction which further extensive to the guitar god's 1996 effort Fire Garden. In betwixt, Townsend worked on a series of projects with Front Line Assembly, and in 1995 issued the solo Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing under the alias Strapping Young Lad. A stint with the satirical punk rock band Punky Bruster yielded the Cooked on Phonics LP before Townsend began work on the second base Strapping Young Lad magnetic disc, 1997's City; he next formed Ocean Machine for 1999's Biomech. Ocean Machine: Biomech appeared 2 long time later.