When fans spotted similarities between Machine Head's 'Beyond the Pale' and a Strapping Young Lad track, Devin Townsend downplayed the potential issue.
Hevy Devy is hitting the road. Strapping Young Lad vocalist-guitarist Devin Townsend will spend this Fall touring with The Devin Townsend Project. The support bands will be announced shortly, as will Canadian dates, so be patient. The pre-sale kicks off August 1st here with limited VIP packages available, so you will be able to get your fill of metal's mad scientist...
Metal mad scientist Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad) is going to be a busy, busy man come summer. On June 21st, the frontman will finally complete the four album series launched by his Devin Townsend Project a few years back by releasing the albums 'Deconstruction' and 'Ghost,' which follow his previous releases 'Ki' and 'Addicted...
Metal fans are already fully aware of the fact that Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna, who rejoined the band last year, has one of the most soaring, powerful voices in hard rock. Belladonna proves the range and roar of his voice with his cover of Frank Sinatra's standard, 'Strangers in the Night,' which appears on the forthcoming 'SIN-Atra' compilation album...
It may be considered blasphemous, or at least the commission of a mortal sin, to bastardize the crooner classics of Ol' Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra, but a clutch of hard rock and metal bands are doing just that on 'SIN-Atra,' a new comp of Sinatra covers due out on March 29th...
Gene Hoglan, one of the most talented extreme metal drummers, has a resume dating back to 1983 when he was knocking heads in Los Angeles violent thrash band Dark Angel. Since then, he has played in Death, Strapping Young Lad, Zimmer's Hole, Old Man's Child, Tenet, Dethklok and most recently Fear Factory...
In 2009, former Strapping Young Lad throat Devin Townsend released what was perhaps one of the best metal discs of the year, 'Addicted,' the second of four records he plans on releasing under the Devin Townsend Project banner. Townsend toured in support of the disc for the first time in years, hitting the road with Between the Buried and Me and Cynic...