Devin Townsend

Quick Facts

Full Name	Devin Townsend
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	May 5, 1972(1972-05-05)
Age	52
Birthplace	New Westminster
Country	Canada
Birth City	British Columbia
Horoscope	Taurus

Devin Townsend Biography

Devin Townsend is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on May 5, 1972 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Singer, songwriter, founder and guitarist for the metal group Strapping Young Lad. Strapping Young Lad.

His unique sound and style has been compared to that from His signature sound and delivery has been compared with that of Frank Zappa..

Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer. He founded extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad and was its primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist from 1994 to 2007, and has 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 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 played ESP six and seven-string guitars from 1994 to 2009 during his endorsement with ESP. In the early days of Strapping Young Lad, he was seen playing an ESP Flying V-style 6-string with a single EMG 81 pickup and a custom graphic designed by Townsend. This was the guitar that was used during the shows in support of Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, and the shows in support of City. In addition to this guitar, Townsend also utilized an ESP EXP Explorer-style guitar with two EMG 81 pickups. During the late 1990s and the 2000s, he was also seen with two ESP Telecaster models (one white, one black) with EMG 81 pickups, which were used for the majority of his six-string material. Townsend also utilized two ESP Custom Shop Horizon 7-string guitars with a 27″ baritone scale and EMG 81-7 pickups, which closely resembled ESP’s Stephen Carpenter signature model. He has also been seen with the Stephen Carpenter SC-607 and SC-607B. He was also occasionally seen playing what is believed to be a Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster HSS during Accelerated Evolution and Synchestra-era shows (mainly for performing “Deadhead”). At the time, this was the only guitar Devin Townsend was seen with that did not have EMG pickups, but was modified with a Seymour Duncan STK-S2n Hot Stack in the neck.

He was married Tracy Turner when he was 19 years old. They have a son called Reyner Liam Johnstan.

Devin Townsend Net Worth

Devin Townsend is one of the richest Guitarist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Devin Townsend 's net worth $2 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At age five, He began playing banjo at five years old at the age of five; by 12 he was switching to guitar.

It was not too long after graduating from his high school graduation for him feel dissatisfied with the music industry and decided to create music for himself.

Devin Townsend was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, on May 5, 1972. Townsend picked up the banjo when he was five, and began playing guitar when he was 12. As an early teenager he befriended Brian “Beav” Waddell, who would later play guitars as part of the Devin Townsend Band and bass on the Devin Townsend Project. He participated in several metal bands while he was in high school, and founded Grey Skies at the age of 19. Around the same time he joined a popular local group called Caustic Thought, replacing Jed Simon on guitar and playing alongside bassist Byron Stroud, both of whom would later become members of Townsend’s flagship band, Strapping Young Lad. In 1993, Townsend began writing material under the name Noisescapes, a project he later described as “just as violent as Strapping Young Lad”.

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Who is Devin Townsend Dating?

According to our records, Devin Townsend married to Tracy Turner. As of December 1, 2023, Devin Townsend’s is not dating anyone.

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After the completion of City and Ocean Machine: Biomech, Townsend began to approach a mental breakdown. He explained, “I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand.” In December 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: Biomech.” After being discharged from the hospital, Townsend found that “everything just clicked” and he was able to write his third solo album, Infinity, which he described as “the parent project” of City and Ocean Machine: Biomech, with music influenced by Broadway. Townsend returned to the studio, accompanied by Hoglan, to work on the album, on which Townsend played most of the instruments. Infinity was released in October 1998. Later in his career, Townsend has cited Infinity as his favorite solo record.

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Townsend’s next project took several years to come to fruition. After the creation of the IR8 demo tape, Townsend and Jason Newsted had begun work on a new project called Fizzicist, which they described as “heavier than Strapping Young Lad”. When the IR8 tape was leaked, Newsted’s Metallica bandmates James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich learned of the project. Hetfield was “fucking pissed” that Newsted was playing outside the band, and Newsted was prevented by his bandmates from working on any more side projects, although Townsend would later downplay Metallica’s role in Newsted’s unavailability. With the project stalled, Townsend instead wrote the album himself, entitling it Physicist. Townsend assembled his Strapping Young Lad bandmates to record it, the only time this lineup was featured on a Devin Townsend album. The thrash-influenced Physicist was released in June 2000, and is generally considered a low point in Townsend’s career. Hoglan and the rest of the band were dissatisfied with the way the sound was mixed, and Townsend considers it his worst album to date.

Is Devin Townsend sober?

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.

Is Devin Townsend vegan?

Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, STEVE VAI, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR) spoke about his vegetarian diet and his passion for cows during an interview with Gilles Lartigot of “Heavy Metal Food”, a new Radio Metal column associating metal music with cooking.

Is Devin Townsend rich?

Devin Townsend net worth: Devin Townsend is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and record producer who has a net worth of $2 million. Devin Townsend was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada in May 1972.

Is Devin Townsend still making music?

Hurrah! Townsend revealed in June that he has begun work on Lightwork, which is expected in spring 2022, ahead of a lengthy European tour, set to begin in Dublin on April 13.

What is Devin Townsend vocal range?

His vocal range has been noted to be over 5 octaves and 3 notes (C2 to F#7) , noting that he mainly masters 2nd and 5th octaves for clean but also raucous vocals and 5th to 7th octaves for purely screamed vocals. Daniel Lake of Decibel Magazine classifies Townsend’s voice as a “semi-operatic tenor”.