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Ocean Machine - Live At The Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv
''Ocean Machine – Live at the Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv'' is the third live album from Devin Townsend Project. It was released on 6 July 2018. The album features a full live performance of '' Ocean Machine: Biomech'', as of the 20th anniversary of the album as well as a set of fan-requested tracks with the Orchestra and Choir of Plovdiv State Opera. The concert was filmed at the Ancient Roman Theatre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on 22 September 2017. Background Regarding the release of the album, band leader Devin Townsend commented: Track listing DVD # Truth (from ''Infinity'' and '' Transcendence'') # Stormbending (from '' Transcendence'') # Om (from ''Christeen + 4 Demos'' and ''Infinitys original track list) # Failure (from ''Transcendence'') # By Your Command (from '' Ziltoid the Omniscient'') # Gaia (from ''Synchestra'') # Deadhead (from ''Accelerated Evolution ''Accelerated Evolution'' is the sixth studio album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend, released in 2003. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devin Townsend Project
Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He founded extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad and was its primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist from 1994 to 2007. He has also had an extensive solo career and has released a total of 29 albums across all of his projects as of 2024. After performing in a number of heavy metal bands in high school, Townsend was discovered in 1993 by a record label who asked him to perform lead vocals on Steve Vai's album ''Sex & Religion''. After recording and touring with Vai, he was discouraged by what he found in the music industry and vented his anger on his 1995 solo album ''Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing'', which he released under the pseudonym Strapping Young Lad. He soon assembled a band of the same name, with whom he released the critically acclaimed album ''City'' in 1997. Since then, he has released three more studio albums with Strapping Young Lad, along with solo mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Metal Albums By Canadian Artists
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2018 Live Albums
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Laut
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Classic Rock (magazine)
''Classic Rock'' is a British magazine and website dedicated to rock music, owned and published by Future. It was launched in October 1998 and is based in London. The magazine publishes 13 editions a year, mainly covering rock bands from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, with the likes of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Queen, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, and Van Halen amongst its most prominent cover stars. As well as veteran rock artists, ''Classic Rock'' also covers modern rock bands and releases, with Alter Bridge, Rival Sons, Halestorm, Ghost, Blackberry Smoke and the Struts amongst the younger artists to have appeared on its cover in recent years. Publication history ''Classic Rock'' was launched by Dennis Publishing in 1998. It was sold to Future in 2000, then sold again to start-up publishing company Team Rock in April 2013. Following the collapse of Team Rock in December 2016, Future bought back the magazine and its websit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Hard (magazine)
''Rock Hard'' (also ''RockHard'') is a German music magazine published in Dortmund, with additional language editions in various countries worldwide, including France, Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Slovenia. The magazine focuses on hard rock and heavy metal music, heavy metal, offering content such as reports, interviews, specials, reviews, and news. Overview Alongside the German edition of ''Metal Hammer'', it is the leading magazine for metal and hard rock in Germany. The German news magazine ''Der Spiegel'' has referred to it as the ' ("central organ") of heavy metal subculture, heavy metal fandom in Germany; others have described it as a ' ("cult magazine"). Founded by Holger Stratmann, more than 440 issues have been published in Germany since its inception in 1983, and it has been published monthly since 1989. ''Rock Hard'' magazine operates independently from major media companies. Its slogan is "critical, competent, independent." Since 1990, magazine staff ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terria (Devin Townsend Album)
''Terria'' is the fifth solo album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend. The album was released in 2001 on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records. Background Feeling he had "attracted a bunch of poo" with his previous album ''Physicist'' (2000), Townsend felt he had the chance to make a more personal and honest record. Townsend was inspired one morning while driving across Canada with his band, and looked to write an "introspective" album dedicated to his homeland.Small, Aaron (November 2001). "Devin Townsend: Diary of a Madman." ''Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles''. He produced and recorded ''Terria'', a "highly illustrated stream-of-consciousness" album, with Gene Hoglan on drums, Craig McFarland on bass and Jamie Meyer on keyboards.Popoff, Martin (Winter–Spring 2003). "Strapping Young Lad." ''Lollipop Magazine'' (61). The artwork of the album was handled by Travis Smith, who once called it his favorite work along with Katatonia's '' Last Fair Deal Gone Down''. The song "Tiny Tears" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accelerated Evolution
''Accelerated Evolution'' is the sixth studio album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend, released in 2003. The album, written and produced by Townsend, was a mix of musical styles from alternative rock to hard rock to progressive metal. Townsend, the lead vocalist and guitarist, assembled a group of Vancouver musicians to perform with him on the album: guitarist Brian Waddell, drummer Ryan Van Poederooyen, bassist Mike Young, and keyboardist Dave Young. This lineup, the Devin Townsend Band, was Townsend's first dedicated lineup for his solo material, and was created as a counterpart to Townsend's extreme metal project Strapping Young Lad. ''Accelerated Evolution'' was written and recorded at the same time as Strapping Young Lad's self-titled album, with Townsend dividing his energy between the two. ''Accelerated Evolution'' was recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia from September to November 2002, and was released on Townsend's independent label, HevyDevy Records, in March 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synchestra
''Synchestra'' ( ) is the eighth solo album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend, and the second and final album he recorded with The Devin Townsend Band. The album was released in January 2006 on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records. Background After releasing four solo albums under the name Devin Townsend, each with a different recording lineup, Townsend decided in 2002 to assemble a permanent band for his solo material. He formed the Devin Townsend Band, consisting of Brian Waddell on guitar, Mike Young on bass, Ryan Van Poederooyen on drums, and Dave Young on keyboards. The newly formed group released their first album, '' Accelerated Evolution'', in March 2003. The group recorded and toured for the album while Townsend's extreme metal project, Strapping Young Lad, were doing the same for their third release, ''Strapping Young Lad''. With Chris Valagao Mina, guitarist, backing vocal. At the end of a whirlwind year, Townsend began working on Strapping Young Lad's fourth album, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziltoid The Omniscient
''Ziltoid the Omniscient'' is the tenth studio album by Canadian metal musician Devin Townsend, released on his own label HevyDevy Records in May 2007, and distributed in America and Europe by InsideOut Music. The album is a concept album about an extraterrestrial being named Ziltoid from the planet Ziltoidia 9. Ziltoid travels to Earth in search of "your universe's ultimate cup of coffee". When a cup of coffee is delivered to him, he is appalled by its taste, declaring it "fetid", and summons the Ziltoidian warlords to attack Earth, facing the full might of Earth's army. Townsend describes the album as a mix between Strapping Young Lad and The Devin Townsend Band, with a storyline like that of Punky Brüster's ''Cooked on Phonics''. The album is a solo album, with all music written, mixed, produced and performed by Townsend. All drum tracks were produced with EZdrummer, a software drum machine, using the ''Drumkit from Hell'' expansion. Townsend played a world exclusive ZTO con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infinity (Devin Townsend Album)
''Infinity'' is the third solo album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend, and the first released under his real name. The album was released in October 1998 on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records. Background After the completion of Strapping Young Lad's extreme metal album ''City'' and his solo progressive rock release '' Ocean Machine: Biomech'', Townsend began to approach a mental breakdown. "I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat," he explained, "life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand." In 1997, he checked himself into a mental-health hospital, where he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The diagnosis helped him understand where the two sides of his music were coming from; he felt his disorder "gave birth to the two extremes that are Strapping's ''City'' record and Ocean Machine's ''Biomech''." After being discharged from the hospital, Townsend found that "everythin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
