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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...

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

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...