r/DevinTownsend

Recently went chronologically, album by album and have come to the conclusion that Terria is his best work by a substantial margin. Does anyone else agree?

I absolutely love Devvy’s music, seeing him live with MIKE FUCKING KENEALLY was incredible despite my (now) ex moaning the whole time about him being a “nerd who thinks he’s funny” which is true, he’s a funny ass nerd.

Anyway, I love the music but every album (barring maybe ZTO, Ki, Ocean Machine & Epicloud) seems so over-compressed. If someone like Dan Lancaster or Brendan O’ Brian remixed the albums I think they would sound so much better.

I get the wall of sound’s appeal but the Epicloud demos sound so much better to me than most of his discography.

I still enjoy the albums a lot, just wish there was a more dynamic mix.

His earlier albums aside, I find Transcendence to be the most well put together album of his career. Each song serves a purpose, nothing comes across as filler. It feels like a band working together rather than Devin doing everything on his own. I loved it the first time I heard it. It came as a shock to find that a lot of his fanbase doesn't rank it that high. Surprised me more when the fanbase praised Empath as a more "return to form". While I like Empath, I found it as a bit of a step down from Transcendence. It's highs were really high (genesis, spirit, borderlands singularity) and it's lows were pretty meh. Felt more like a collection of songs rather than an album with a singular vision.

There is something about Transcendence that just seems so spectacularly above itself that I can't help but love it. 'Spiritual metal' is a good way of describing it. Maybe it's just my own personal preference but I can't understand how anyone could place it so low in their rankings.

I honestly really hope for a tour for this album, I fucking love it and really think it can be seen as an amazing swan song. I want to see it so badly in Louisville KY with a full orchestra or really anything from Devin.

My wife and I saw him for the first time in 2023, no idea about him and was blown the fuck away (lightworker is one of my favorites).

I found myself listening to everything from Dev since the beginning of SYL. I'm sure I haven't listened to everything but goddamn is he amazing lol

Went to search up this song and saw that it's been wiped from YouTube! Luckily I still had a compressed MP3 of it in my hard drive so I've uploaded it.

Years ago I found a fan made video of ‘A New Reign’ from Z2 with a man and his dog and he was holding the dog in the water and the song playing… 🎶 I’m underwater .. I’ll hold you 🎶..
it was so beautiful I think it was actually from a short film.
I’m trying to find it again as my cat is currently in hospital and I thought of it and would like to watch it again in this stressful time.
Does anyone know what I’m talking about and if it’s out there anywhere?
Thanks

Do we have any ideas what songs he’ll be doing on the new tour? Will it mainly be Moth related? Anyone got any song lineup ideas? I’d love to make a playlist of some he might be playing!

Does anyone know if there’s a reason that Rain City and Bastard have the same last lyrics?