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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...

We saw metal dominating the retail shelves once again last week, courtesy of our friends at Metal Insider. On their ninth studio release, corpse-paint slathered Polish black metallers Behemoth enjoyed their chart debut which came with 8,500 units sold in their second week while our favorite O...

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...