Townsend, Devin
Entry updated 3 May 2024. Tagged: Music, People.
(1972- ) Canadian musician and songwriter, mostly associated with heavy metal, both under his own name and as leader of the band Strapping Young Lad. His entirely solo album Ziltoid the Omniscient (2007) is a concept album about the titular Alien from the planet Ziltoidia 9, "the ultimate fourth dimensional guitar hero", who travels to Earth in search of "your universe's ultimate cup of coffee", then declares war when he decides the drink offered him is "foetid". It all turns out to be the dream of a slacking barista. While the story is obviously not intended to be taken seriously, the complex, extremely bombastic prog metal that accompanies it, and which is typical of Townsend's prolific output, certainly is. He returned to the character with Dark Matters, one half of the double album Z² (2014). [CWa]
Devin Garrett Townsend
born New Westminster, British Columbia: 5 May 1972
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