Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Devin Townsend (born May 5, 1972 in Vancouver), also known as Devy, is a Canadian musician currently residing in British Columbia. His main instruments are guitar and vocals, but he is, as he showed on his Infinity solo album, a talented multi-instrumentalist and producer. His music is hard to categorize but mostly falls into melodic hard-rock/metal with added influences from progressive rock and industrial music. At the age of 19 he was recruited by Steve Vai to perform on his Sex & Religion album and accompanying world tour, but most of his career was spent playing in bands in which he was the leader and main creative force. His approach is original in that he doesn't have a main band, but instead creates bands/projects for almost each album. For example, Strapping Young Lad is his very heavy industrial metal band where most of his anger and frustration goes, and Ocean Machine is his progressive melodic hard-rock band with a water theme. Discography & Bands Strapping Young Lad 1995 Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing 1997 City 1998 No Sleep Till Bedtime (live in Melbourne, Australia) 2003 self-titled Ocean Machine 1997 Biomech Punky Bruster 1996? Cooked on Phonics Devin Townsend 1998 Infinity 1998? Infinity: Christine EP (outakes from the Infinity sessions) 2000? Ass-Sordid Demos (collection of demos, 1990-1996) 2000 Physicist 2001 Terria The Devin Townsend Band 2003 Accelerated Evolution This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.