| Attributes | Values |
|---|
| type
| |
| label
| |
| sameAs
| |
| name
| |
| gender
| |
| dbo:genre
| |
| dbo:associatedMusicalArtist
| - Ayreon
- ReVamp
- Bent_Sea
- Darkest_Hour_(band)
- Front_Line_Assembly
- Strapping_Young_Lad
- The_Wildhearts
- Devin_Townsend
- Punky_Brüster_–_Cooked_on_Phonics
- Steve_Vai
- Casualties_of_Cool
- IR8
- Removal_(band)
|
| Subject
| - Living people
- Juno Award winners
- Ableton Live users
- Canadian people of English descent
- Canadian record producers
- Singers with a five-octave vocal range
- 1972 births
- Canadian rock guitarists
- Canadian rock singers
- Canadian singer-songwriters
- Musicians from Vancouver
- People with bipolar disorder
- Progressive metal guitarists
- Seven-string guitarists
- Canadian multi-instrumentalists
- Canadian industrial musicians
- People from New Westminster
|
| abstract
| - Born on May 5th 1972 in Vancouver, Canada, Devin Townsend is a multi-instrumentalist and producer. At the age of 19, he caught the attention of Steve Vai, who recruited him as the vocalist in his band, Vai, for the %22Sex & Religion%22 album and consequent world tour. Since then, he spent his career in projects he started himself, as an expression of the different %22sides%22 of his creativity: the two main projects are Strapping Young Lad (a speed/industrial metal band), and the Devin Townsend Band (formerly known as Ocean Machine).Devin's current project, known as Devin Townsend Project, is a musical journey through the past 3 years of his life, having a kid, quitting marijuana and booze, and many other personal changes. The Project consists of 4 albums which will be released 2009-2010. The chronological order of the albums is %22Ki%22, %22Addicted%22, %22Deconstruction%22 and %22Ghost%22.
|
| dbo:abstract
| - Devin Garret Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2007 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist.After performing in a number of heavy metal bands in high school, Townsend was discovered by a record label in 1993 and was asked to perform lead vocals on Steve Vai's album Sex & Religion. After recording and touring with Vai, Townsend was discouraged by what he found in the music industry, and vented his anger on the solo album Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing released under the pseudonym Strapping Young Lad. He soon assembled a band under the name, and released the critically acclaimed City in 1997. Since then, he has released three more studio albums with Strapping Young Lad, along with solo material released under his own independent record label, HevyDevy Records.Townsend's solo albums, a diverse mix of hard rock, progressive metal, ambient, and new-age, have featured a varying lineup of supporting musicians. In 2002 he formed the Devin Townsend Band, a dedicated lineup which recorded and toured for two of his solo releases. In 2007, he disbanded both Strapping Young Lad and the Devin Townsend Band, taking a break from touring to spend more time with his family. After a two-year hiatus, he began recording again, and soon announced the formation of the Devin Townsend Project. The project began with a series of four albums, released from 2009 to 2011, each written in a different style, and Townsend continues to record and tour under the new moniker.Across all his bands and projects, Townsend has released twenty studio albums and three live albums. Townsend's trademark production style, featuring a heavily multitracked wall of sound, has been compared to the styles of Phil Spector and Frank Zappa. His versatile vocal delivery ranges from screaming to an opera-esque singing, and his songwriting is similarly diverse. Townsend's musical style is rooted in metal, and his albums are written to express different aspects of his personality.
|
| schema:alternateName
| - Devin
- Dev
- Townsend
- D Townsend
- D. Townsend
- Dev-The-Dick-Happy-Bum-Dart-Champ
- Devin And His Pet Brain
- Devin Garret Townsend
- Devin T.
- Devin Townsend's Infinity
- Devin Towsend
- Devin:Townsend
- Devy
- Devy Metal
- Devy Wevy Poo
- Disco Dev
- Doctor Skinny
- Lulu Devine
- Nived
- The Dev
- Wavey V
- Wevy
- Ziltoid
- デヴィン・タウンゼント
|
| discogs
| |
| homepage
| |
| musicbrainz
| |
| Musicbrainz GUID
| - 93e8c41e-8e4f-4d08-bbf5-bc1a903b2423
|
| universally unique identifier
| |
| wikipedia
| |
| myspace
| |
| schema:birthDate
| |
| schema:members
| |
| wsb:allMusic_page
| |
| wsb:amazon_page
| |
| wsb:deezer_artist_id
| |
| wsb:deezer_fans
| |
| wsb:deezer_page
| |
| wsb:discogs_id
| |
| wsb:facebook_page
| |
| wsb:iTunes_page
| |
| wsb:lastFm_page
| |
| wsb:location
| |
| wsb:name_without_accent
| |
| wsb:rateYourMusic_page
| |
| wsb:record_label
| |
| wsb:spotify_page
| |
| wsb:twitter_page
| |
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
