Devin Townsend

Devin Townsend
Genre(s)
Progressive/Industrial/Atmospheric Metal
Lyrical theme(s)
Life as a Whole
Origin Formed in Current label Status
Canada (Vancouver, British Columbia) 1996 HevyDevy Records Active
Current line-up
Devin Townsend - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Programming (Strapping Young Lad, IR8, Ocean Machine, Steve Vai, Punky Brüster, The Devin Townsend Band, Devin Townsend Project, Caustic Thought)
Former/past member(s)
Guitars:
Jed Simon (Strapping Young Lad, Zimmers Hole, Tenet, Armoros, Caustic Thought, Front Line Assembly)

Bass:
Byron Stroud (Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, Zimmers Hole, Caustic Thought, Unit: 187, Physicist, Tenet, City of Fire)
Craig McFarland

Keyboards:
Jamie Meyer

Drums:
Gene Hoglan (Daemon (Dnk), Dark Angel (US), Death, Dethklok, Forbidden (US), Just Cause, Meldrum, Naphobia, Old Man's Child, Phantasm (US), Pitch Black Forecast, Strapping Young Lad, Tenet, Testament, Unearth, Wargod (US), Zimmers Hole, Mechanism (Can), Fear Factory)
Additional notes
Ocean Machine, The Devin Townsend Band and Devin Townsend Project have their own pages. Do not add their albums to this page.

Originally, Devin wanted to be a puppet maker and puppet master before being a musician.

When Devin was only 19 years old, Steve Vai recruited him to play in his Sex & Religion album as well as the world tour. Punky Brüster was a one-off pop-punk parody band that released [...]
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Dark_EnemyAugust 4th, 2002
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Discography


Christeen + 4 Demos EP, 1998
Infinity Full-length, 1998[6 reviews, average 93%]
Christeen Single, 1998
Official Bootleg Video Video/VHS, 1999
Official Bootleg Live album, 1999
Ass-Sordid Demos (1990-1996) Best of/Compilation, 2000
Physicist Full-length, 2000[4 reviews, average 90%]
Terria Full-length, 2001[5 reviews, average 94%]
Ass Sordid Demos II Best of/Compilation, 2004
Devlab Full-length, 2004[1 review, 90%]
Hummer Full-length, 2006[1 review, 91%]
Ziltoid the Omniscient Full-length, 2007[10 reviews, average 83%]


Links

Official
Hevy Devy Forums (inc. SYL)
Official HevyDevy.com
Official Myspace
Ziltoid the Omniscient's Myspace
Devin Townsend @ Twitter

Labels
Devin Townsend at Inside Out Music

Official merchandise
Official Ziltoid The Omniscient Homepage

Fan site
http://devintownsend-tr.blogspot.com/
Turkish Fan Site

Tablatures
Tablature@metaltabs.com
Tabs (guitar-pro, .txt) @ ZoneMetal.com
Devin Townsend@MySongBook.com


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