Strapping Young Lad

In early 2009, when Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell and guitarist Dino Cazares decided to play together again after seven years of not speaking to one another, they asked original bassist Christian Olde Wolbers and drummer Raymond Herrera to help create a full band reunion...

When Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and vocalist Burton C. Bell play, there's a palpable chemistry that was built over decades on a foundation of experience and tension. In other words, the two have been through more drama than most divorced couples...

East Coast thrashers Overkill return with 'Ironbound,' the 15th installment in their discography spanning two decades -- certainly more than an impressive career, especially for practitioners of an extreme form of music. Travis Smith from Seempieces, based on the opposite American coast -- who has done 'Immortalis,' 'Killbox' and 'Bloodletting' for the band before -- contributed his artistic talen

One listen to Davola's Between the Buried and Me-meets-Strapping Young Lad galloping horse-style aggression on their debut EP, 'Dichotomy' and you might be wondering why you've never seen them on any tours. It might be because they are a new band, but it's more likely because Davola is not a 'they,' but a 'he...

Today is a most glorious day, as the Devin Townsend Project's 'Addicted' finally hits record store shelves. The disc is the second in a series of four recorded under the DTP banner, and is easily one of the year's best offerings. It's crushing, hyper heavy metal that proves, once more, that Townsend is one of metal's most prolific mad scientists...

The Windy City rumbled Oct. 17, as one of the biggest metal shows currently crisscrossing the States hit Chicago's Aragon Ballroom. And the city's illustrious blog, Chicagoist, was there to cover the debauchery. Imagine this: The gig started promptly at 6:30 PM, with High on Fire tearing "through a short, tight set of British-style garage metal" that ran 30 minutes ...

Fans of Canadian heavy metal outfit Strapping Young Lad may never be able to appreciate why Devin Townsend decided to dismantle the group back in 2007, because, well, they're just being selfish. In their minds, Strapping wasn't done yet. Problem is, Devin was done with Strapping...

The thing is, it nearly happened. Strapping Young Lad mastermind Devin Townsend and Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt almost collaborated on Townsend's 'Addicted,' the second of four records the Canadian metal maven's been working on in recent years as the Devin Townsend Project. It w...

Devin Townsend fully expects that the metal community will "be like, 'The gay-o-meter is in the red, bro'" when they first hear 'Addicted,' the second of four albums he's been working on and is releasing under the moniker the Devin Townsend Project...

I've always maintained that animals like metal. I remember years ago, when Opeth's 'Blackwater Park' first came out, my cat Dante would always fall asleep when I'd put it on, regardless of how loud the volume was -- Iced Earth, Strapping Young Lad, Theory in Practice and Dillinger Escape Plan also worked...