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Devin Townsend

Devin Garret Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician, vocalist and record producer. He was the founding member and driving force of the extreme metal outfit Strapping Young Lad, and has released a multitude of solo albums.

Townsend's musical career began when he was discovered by a record label in 1993 and was asked to perform lead vocals on Steve Vai's album Sex & Religion. After recording and touring with Vai, Townsend was discouraged by what he found in the music industry, and vented his anger on a solo album released under the pseudonym Strapping Young Lad. He soon assembled a band under the name, and released the critically acclaimed City in 1997. He simultaneously wrote the complementary Ocean Machine: Biomech, a blend of pop rock and progressive rock, and released it under his own name. Since then, Townsend has continued to write and record albums with Strapping Young Lad, along with solo efforts released under the name Devin Townsend and, on two occasions, with The Devin Townsend Band.

Townsend's trademark production style, featuring a heavily multitracked wall of sound, has been compared to the styles of Phil Spector and Frank Zappa. His versatile vocal delivery ranges from screaming to singing, and his songwriting is similarly diverse in nature. Townsend's musical style is rooted in metal, and his albums are written to express different aspects of his personality. Strapping Young Lad delivered dark, extreme, aggressive music which blended industrial and death metal, while Townsend's solo releases are more evocative of progressive rock. Townsend has attributed the two sides of his musical output to his bipolar disorder, a condition which figured heavily into such releases as his 1998 album Infinity and Strapping Young Lad's 2005 release Alien.

Strapping Young Lad's five-album contract was fulfilled with the 2006 release of The New Black, leaving the band on indefinite hiatus. The Devin Townsend Band was also retired from touring later that year. With both of his bands dissolved, Townsend has spent more of his time producing albums for other groups. He continues to write and release self-produced albums from his home studio.[1][2]

Biography

Early life

Devin Townsend was born in New Westminster, British Columbia on May 5, 1972.[3] Townsend began playing the banjo when he was 5 years old, learning to play from his father.[4] At the age of 12, he received his first guitar, and received lessons from Terry Armitage, a local guitar teacher, between the ages of 13 and 16. Armitage claimed to have taught Townsend differently from other students, saying that instead of teaching him numerous scales, he showed Townsend that the guitar was more about self-expression and focused lessons on how to put the expression onto tape. Townsend would practice ten hours a day, from the time he got home from school until midnight.[5] At the age of 17, he taught at his teacher's studio for a year, until he finished school and then enrolled himself into the University of Victoria. He only attended one semester, at which point he "couldn't take it anymore", and dropped out to pursue his musical interests.[5]

Early musical career (1991–1996)

Growing up in the Vancouver music scene, Townsend participated in several bands while he was in high school. At the age of 19 he founded Grey Skies, his first major band. Around the same time joined a popular local band called Caustic Thought, replacing Jed Simon on guitar and playing alongside bassist Byron Stroud, both of whom would later become members of his flagship band, Strapping Young Lad. Caustic Thought went on one tour down the west coast before Townsend quit the band.[4] In 1993, Townsend began writing material under the name Noisescapes, a project which he would later describe as "just as violent as Strapping Young Lad."[6]

Townsend recorded a Noisescapes demo, and sent copies of it to various record labels, wrapped in pairs of his used underwear to attract attention.[3] Relativity Records responded to Townsend with a record deal. Shortly afterward, the label introduced him to musician Steve Vai, who had been looking for someone to perform vocals on his upcoming album, Sex and Religion. Impressed with Townsend's vocal work, Vai offered him the role of the album's lead vocalist. Townsend took the offer, and accompanied Vai on the subsequent world tour in support of the album.[4] After the Sex and Religion tour had ended, Townsend landed a second touring gig, this time with the opening band of Vai's tour, The Wildhearts. He played live with the band throughout half of 1994 in Europe, and appeared as a guest musician on their Urge and Anarchic Airwaves albums. Ginger, the band's frontman, remained close friends with Townsend,[3] later co-writing several songs on Infinity and Christeen.

While on tour with The Wildhearts, Townsend got in touch with Metallica's then-bassist Jason Newsted through The Wildhearts' manager, Big Mick, formerly a soundman for Metallica.[4] Townsend and Newsted formed a short-lived thrash metal project known as IR8, featuring Newsted on vocals and bass, Townsend on guitar, and Tom Hunting of Exodus on drums. The group recorded a few songs together, although Townsend says that they never intended to go further than that. "People heard about it and thought we wanted to put out a CD, which is absolutely not true," he explains. "People took this project way too seriously."[6] A demo tape was put together, but the material was not released until 2002, when Newsted published the IR8 vs. Sexoturica compilation.

While Townsend was proud of what he had accomplished so early in his career, was discouraged by his experience with the music industry. Despite his respect for Vai, he was not engrossed in the music, and was artistically hindered. "I was becoming a product of somebody else's imagination, and it was mixing with my own personality," he later reflected. "This combination was appalling."[7] He pushed to get his own projects off the ground. Despite getting multiple touring gigs with successful musicians, however, Townsend continued to face rejection of his own music. Relativity Records dropped Noisescapes from their label shortly after Townsend accepted Vai's offer, seeing no commercial appeal in Townsend's music.[8] "I have a hunch they only offered me a deal to get me to sing with Steve," he mused.[6] While touring with The Wildhearts, Townsend received a phone call from an A&R representative for Roadrunner Records, expressing an interest in his demos and an intention to sign him. The offer was ultimately rescinded by the head of Roadrunner, who regarded Townsend's recordings as "just noise".[9]

I hope I ain't doing this when I am thirty because I feel this way at the moment and it is not something I am overly proud of. It's like saying, "Hey everybody, I have a bad temper."

— Townsend on Strapping Young Lad, 1995[8]

Townsend got his first successful deal when Century Media Records offered him a contract to "make us some extreme albums".[9] Townsend agreed to a five-album deal with the record label.[10] With a record deal in place, Townsend began his first solo project, recording material under the pseudonym Strapping Young Lad. Townsend avoided using his real name at this point in career, looking for a fresh start after his high-profile Vai gig. "At the beginning, I wanted to avoid at all cost to use my name because I was known as the singer for Steve Vai and it wasn't the best publicity to have," he later explained. "I was playing somebody else's music and I was judged in respect to that music."[7] Townsend produced and performed nearly all the instruments on the debut studio album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, which was released in April 1995.

Following the release of the record, Townsend and several other musician friends he knew in Vancouver recorded an album in 1996 entitled Cooked on Phonics for another one-off side project, Punky Brüster. Written and recorded in under a month, the album was produced as a parody of punk rock bands and documents the act of selling out for mainstream success.

City and Ocean Machine: Biomech (1995–1997)

Townsend assembled a permanent lineup of Strapping Young Lad to record City, including prolific metal drummer Gene Hoglan, along with his former bandmates Jed Simon on guitar and Byron Stroud on bass. The album was released in 1997 to favourable reviews.[4] To this day, the album is widely considered Strapping Young Lad's best work,[11][12][13] and was named by Revolver as "one of the greatest metal albums of all time".[14] Townsend himself considers it the band's "ultimate" album.[15]

Dating back to the Sex and Religion tour, Townsend had been writing solo material for a project called Ocean Machine. The Biomech album was recorded in 1995 and originally queued for release later that year in December on Hevydevy Records, a label created by Townsend solely for material he releases on his own. Due to unknown reasons, Biomech was put off for release until late 1996, but when the time came to finally release it, Townsend had become unsatisfied with the recordings and decided to rerecord the album from scratch. Finally released in Japan on July 21, 1997, the album sold 12,000 copies throughout its first week of sales.

Although Ocean Machine began as a separate project from Strapping Young Lad, no further albums were produced and released under the moniker. Biomech was later renamed and redistributed as Ocean Machine: Biomech under Devin Townsend's name by request of his label. Notably, the album is still released in Australia as Biomech due to having refused to change the CD covers.

Infinity through Terria (1997–1998)

After the completion of City and Biomech, Townsend began to approach a mental breakdown. "I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat," he explained, "life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand." In 1997, he checked himself into a mental-health hospital, where he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The diagnosis helped him understand where the two sides of his music were coming from; he felt his disorder "gave birth to the two extremes that are Strapping's City record and Ocean Machine's Biomech."[16] After being discharged from the hospital, Townsend found that "everything just clicked" and he was able to write his second solo album, Infinity, which he described as "the parent project" of City and Biomech.[16] Townsend returned to the studio, accompanied by drummer Gene Hoglan, to work on the album, on which Townsend played most of the instruments. Infinity was released in October 1998.[3]

With Infinity, Townsend began to label all albums outside of Strapping Young Lad under his own name, dropping the Ocean Machine moniker, to reduce confusion. He wanted to show that despite the highly varied nature of his projects, they are all simply aspects of who he is.[7] The album Biomech was relabeled and redistributed as Ocean Machine: Biomech, under Townsend's name, to reflect the new arrangement. Townsend's bandmates began to play two sets at their shows, one as Strapping Young Lad, and one as the Devin Townsend Band, playing songs from Townsend's solo albums.[3]

Townsend's next project took several years to come to fruition. After the creation of the IR8 demo tape, Townsend and Jason Newsted had begun work on a new project called Fizzicist, which they claimed would be "heavier than Strapping Young Lad". When the IR8 tape was leaked, Newsted's Metallica bandmates James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich learned of the project. Hetfield was "fucking pissed" that Newsted was playing outside the band, and Newsted was prevented by his bandmates from working on any more side projects.[17][3] With the project stalled, Townsend instead wrote the album himself, entitling it Physicist. Townsend assembled his Strapping Young Lad bandmates to record it, the only time this lineup was featured on a Devin Townsend album.[3] Physicist was released in June 2000, and is generally considered a low point in Townsend's career. Drummer Gene Hoglan and the rest of the band were dissatisfied with the way the sound was mixed,[18] and Townsend considers it his worst album to date.[19]

Townsend followed up Physicist with Terria, a "warm and organic" album recorded with Gene Hoglan on drums, Craig McFarland on bass and Jamie Meyer on keyboards. Terria was released in November 2001.[3]

Strapping Young Lad through Synchestra (2003–2006)

Townsend's solo run lasted until 2002. After a five-year break from recording, Strapping Young Lad reunited to record a new album. Townsend credits the album, Strapping Young Lad, as an emotional response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States. "If the world's about to blow up," said Townsend, "let's write the soundtrack for it."[18] The self-titled album was released in February 2003. Strapping Young Lad was less industrial than City,[20] and more reminiscent of death metal.[21] It received moderate reviews, with critics finding it inferior to City,[22][23] but it had the distinction of being the band's first charting album.[24]

While Strapping Young Lad was being reunited, Townsend formed a new, permanent band to record and tour for his solo releases. The Devin Townsend Band consisted of Brian Waddell on guitar, Mike Young on bass, Ryan Van Poederooyen on drums, and Dave Young on keyboards. Townsend performed guitar, vocals, and production, as he did in Strapping Young Lad. Townsend worked on the band's first album, Accelerated Evolution, at the same time he was working on Strapping Young Lad, spending half the week on one and half on the other.[25] Accelerated Evolution was released a month after Strapping Young Lad. For the first time, Townsend's two bands toured separately for their separate albums, although both bands shared a bill on at least one occasion.[3]

The Special Edition release of Accelerated Evolution came with a three-track EP called Project EKO which was Townsend's first foray into electronica, a genre which he would explore in subsequent albums. Townsend released Devlab, his first full-length ambient electronica album, in December 2004, distributing it exclusively through his website.

You just have to ... know your limits. And I didn't until this record.

— Townsend on Alien, 2005[26]

Strapping Young Lad began working on their next album, Alien, in March 2004.[27] To prepare for the new album, Townsend stopped taking the medication prescribed to treat his bipolar disorder.[26] "I think that as an artist, in order for me to get to the next plateau, I kind of feel the need to explore things and sometimes that exploration leads you to places that are a little crazy," he explains. "And Alien was no exception with that."[28] Alien was released in March 2005, selling 3,697 copies in its first week[29] and appearing on several Billboard charts.[30]

Shortly thereafter Townsend began putting together the next Devin Townsend Band record, with the working title Human.[31] Townsend intended the album as the more "pleasant" counterpart to Alien. "It's basically a record about coming back down to earth after being in space with Alien for a while."[28] The album, Synchestra, was released in January 2006. Townsend showcased a wide variety of musical styles in Synchestra, blending his trademark "pop metal" with influences from folk, polka, and Middle Eastern music.[32]

Ziltoid and dissolution of bands (2006–2007)

Townsend's wife, Tracy Turner, gave birth to their first son, Reyner Liam Johnstan Townsend, on October 4, 2006.[33] Around this time, Townsend withdrew from touring to spend time with his family. He completed his second solo ambient album, The Hummer, releasing it exclusively on his website.

Following the hiatus after the birth of his son, Townsend announced in November 2006 that he was writing and recording material for a new album. The project was tentatively (and jokingly) referred to as The Mighty Masturbator during its early recording stages, but was renamed to Ziltoid the Omniscient before its release. The album was recorded by Townsend alone in its entirety, utilizing Toontrack's "Drumkit from Hell" for the drum tracks, well known for its use on Meshuggah's Catch Thirtythree album.

In May 2007, Townsend announced in a Ziltoid the Omniscient press conference that he no longer plans to tour or make albums with Strapping Young Lad or the Devin Townsend Band, due to the "burn-out" associated with touring and promoting. He does however, intend to continue his career as a producer and with his own solo projects, such as his puppet shows associated with Ziltoid the Omniscient and new albums. On his official message board, Townsend explained his decision:[34]

I'm officially burnt out on travelling, touring, and self promotion. I want to produce and make records for an undetermined length of time. Please respect that. I love syl and dtb, and the members of those bands mean a great deal to me, but I have to do it for the love, when it becomes a burden, it's time to step away for a while. After Ziltoid, there will be no real interviews for as long as it takes for me to build up strength again. I'm sure at some point I'll get the itch to play, but in the meantime, please respect that I've burnt myself out and need to get away from it all. I'm no good to anyone as a tired shell going through the motions for money. Mostly the point is i just need to spend some fuckin' time with my family.

Post-Ziltoid (2007–present)

Townsend produced several albums in 2007 and 2008, including Zimmers Hole's third studio album, When You Were Shouting at the Devil... We Were in League with Satan. Zimmers Hole consists of Townsend's former bandmates Simon, Stroud, and Hoglan, along with Chris Valagao, who has performed backing vocals on all of Strapping Young Lad's albums and several of Townsend's solo albums.

In 2008, Townsend lent his voice to characters in several episodes of the Adult Swim cartoon Metalocalypse (see Musician cameos in Metalocalypse for more). The original character design for Pickles the Drummer, one of the series' main characters, bore a striking resemblance to Townsend. The series' co-creator Brendan Small acknowledged the similarity, and altered the design before the series began. "We made sure he didn't look like Devin Townsend. We gave him the goatee and the dreadover so he wouldn't look like that."[35]

In June 2007, Townsend began to discuss the plans for his next solo studio album, describing it as a "hugely complicated, dynamic metal 'symphony' thing...mainly instrumental."[36] The upcoming album is currently entitled Ki, with no release date yet decided.[37] In December of 2008, Devin revealed to his fans that he would be releasing two simultaneous albums: Ki, a full-length LP album consisting of 14 tracks, along with an EP described by Devin as "an absolute chaotic bizzare alien headfuck called Deconstruction Of A Cheeseburger."[38]

Townsend has continued to provide updates about the album through his official message board. "I've worked on this record more than almost any record I've ever done next to Ocean Machine," says Townsend. "Sometimes I think it's brilliant and sometimes it freaks me out."[39] In September 2008, he announced that he planned to begin recording "in the next 2 months", retreating to northern Canada to work on the album, with the possibility of "a show or two" in the coming months.[40]

In February of 2009, Townsend revealed that Ki and Deconstruction of a Cheeseburger will be two of four upcoming releases: "Yeah, 4 records. An Appetizer, 2 meals and a desert. Ki is the appetizer...heavy chill. I start the next one the day after...then the next will be the symphony, then an ambient album. Tentatively, Ki is the mellow-ish intro to the story (a very pointed theme though, it's unnerving)... Addicted is the next one, heavy, fun and dance-y ...I like good choruses and dancing. Deconstruction is a treat for the syl and ziltoid fans...(and then some...damn...it's fucking nuts.) The ambient album, (sand theme) will close it off."

Preceding announcements revealed that the four new albums will be released under the name "Devin Townsend Projects"[41] Devin has also stated in his forums that "universe willing", all four albums would be released in 2009.

Musical style

As a self-proclaimed "fan of multitracking"[28], Townsend has developed a trademark production style featuring an atmospheric, layered "wall of sound".[32] Townsend uses software suites such as Pro Tools, Steinberg Cubase, and Logic Pro, when recording, mixing, and producing his music.[28] Townsend's musical ideas and production style have drawn comparisons to Phil Spector[32] and Frank Zappa.[42]

Townsend's two main projects, the more melodic The Devin Townsend Band and the aggressive Strapping Young Lad, were "supposed to be the positive and the negative".[43] Strapping Young Lad's music was a diverse mix of extreme metal genres; death metal, thrash metal, black metal[44] and industrial metal. Many of the band's songs showcased Townsend's versatile vocal style, often changing from screaming, and growling to clean vocals,[45] or even falsetto,[46] within the course of a single song. According to Townsend, the band functioned as his "outlet to freak out".[47] To achieve a chaotic and cacophonic sound, Strapping Young Lad utilized complex time signatures,[48] polyrhythmic composition,[49] blast beats,[13] sampling, keyboard effects and intricately layered production. Strapping Young Lad mostly eschewed guitar solos until The New Black, which featured a more heightened emphasis on melody than their previous albums.[50]

Influences

Townsend draws influence from a wide range of music genres, most prominently, but not exclusively, heavy metal. Townsend has cited, amongst others, Judas Priest, Jane's Addiction, Zoviet France, Grotus, and Frank Zappa as his influences,[51] and has also expressed his admiration for Meshuggah on several occasions, calling it "the best metal band on the planet".[49] Townsend stated his main influences for Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing were Napalm Death and Fear Factory,[52] City was influenced by bands such as Foetus and White Noise,[9] and The New Black's influences were Meshuggah, and "more traditional metal" like Metallica.[53]

Lyrical themes

Townsend was Strapping Young Lad's primary songwriter. While the first two Strapping Young Lad albums were solely his work, subsequent albums featured a minority of "riffs, lyrical ideas, and song titles" by his band mates.[54]

Despite the brutality of Strapping Young Lad's music, their songs contain hints of tongue-in-cheek humor and self-parody. Frequently, Townsend's lyrics approached serious personal or political issues with a morbid sense of humor. He has likened the band's sense of silliness to that of "Weird Al" Yankovic.[20] Townsend's lyrical influences covered a wide range of themes, including warfare,[55] mathematical theorems,[56] and movies.[57] He also used the technique of cross-referencing, repeating lines from his own works, such as older Strapping Young Lad, or solo material.[57]

Discography

Main article: Devin Townsend discography

Townsend has released nine solo studio albums (including two with the Devin Townsend Band), with his tenth forthcoming, and five studio albums with Strapping Young Lad. He has also released numerous EPs, live albums, compilation albums, and collaborations under a variety of monikers, and has produced dozens of albums for other artists. A thorough discography of Townsend's career can be found at Devin Townsend discography. His major studio releases are listed below.

Solo albums

Title Release date Label
Ocean Machine: Biomech July 21, 1997 Hevydevy
Infinity June 17, 1998 Hevydevy
Physicist June 26, 2000 Hevydevy
Terria November 6, 2001 Hevydevy
Accelerated Evolution March 31, 2003 Hevydevy
Devlab December 4, 2004 Hevydevy
Synchestra January 30, 2006 Hevydevy
The Hummer November 15, 2006 Hevydevy
Ziltoid the Omniscient May 27, 2007 Hevydevy
Ki Unannounced Hevydevy

Strapping Young Lad

Title Release date Label
Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing April 4, 1995 Century Media
City February 11, 1997 Century Media
Strapping Young Lad February 11, 2003 Century Media
Alien March 22, 2005 Century Media
The New Black July 11, 2006 Century Media

See also

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