Strapping Young Lad

This fall, cartoon metal band Dethklok – stars of Adult Swim's 'Metalocalypse' – will co-headline a tour with prog-metal masters Mastodon. Massachusetts mathcore veterans Converge and stoner/doom masters High on Fire will open the show. "It's gonn...

Longtime fans of Devin Townsend's work - be it with Strapping Young Lad and the Devin Townsend Band, or his solo projects, Ocean Machine, Infinity, Physicist, and Terria, or all of the above -- may not know what to think of Hevy Devy's new album, 'Ki' (pronounced "key"), at first...

Three years ago, not long after the birth of his son, Devin Townsend resolved to quit drinking and smoking pot. But it wasn't easy, and now, for the first time in a long time, the former Strapping Young Lad frontman is writing and recording music clean and sober...

Well, hello again. Thanks for checking us out on your Saturday. We know you could be doing a lot with your free time, and we're glad you stopped by. Don't forget to come back next week, when we'll be bringing you more from our interview with Devin Townsend, and we'll be talking album art with the Chariot and Iwrestledabearonce...

Once former Strapping Young Lad frontman Devin Townsend commits to something, "that's basically the end of it," he says. And when he decided back in 2006 to leave Strapping, he meant it. Devin's decision came soon after the birth of his son, Reyner, and since then, Townsend has recorded his own music and produced albums for others...

The metal news never stops around here, and hence, we're always pretty busy, trying to keep you up to date on all the latest. Today, we learn that Slash will probably be working with Adam Lambert, Fear Factory has reunited (for real, this time), and we answer People magazine's question: Is Mary-Kate Copying Ozzy's Style...