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Powered by phpBB 2.Strapping Young Lad in 2006, left to right: Byron Stroud, Gene Hoglan, Devin Townsend and Jed Simon.Strapping Young Lad was an influential progressive extreme metal band from Canada, founded by Devin Townsend in 1995.The band's music is a varied fusion of death metal, thrash metal, grindcore, industrial metal, and progressive metal.History
Strapping Young Lad (usually abbreviated as SYL or Strapping) began as a solo project by Canadian musician Devin Townsend.Once he had completed his work as vocalist on Steve Vai's Sex and Religion and that album's subsequent tour, he recorded the majority of the instruments (except drums by Adrian White; excluding where drum machine is used) on the debut album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing.City was released to a huge response, prompting Kerrang!SYL, and the two bands have since existed in tandem; albeit with somewhat divergent musical directions.SYL's third album, the self titled Strapping Young Lad, marked the band's first new release on Devin's own label, Hevy Devy Records, which was founded just after the release of City and is managed by Devin and his wife Tracy.In early 2004, Devin advertised on the band's official forum for fans to join SYL for a free show at the Commodore in Vancouver.Canadian song from the South Park motion picture was played over the PA as intro music at most SYL shows in 2003 and 2004.Strapping Young Lad's fourth album, Alien was released March 22, 2005, to a mixture of reviews, mostly favouring the progressive element Devin Townsend continues to bring to extreme metal.In addition, Strapping Young Lad embarked on a short festival tour of Europe in June (e.Download Festival at Castle Donington, England), and were added to the bill of the prestigious Ozzfest, where they played to some of their largest audiences thus far, in July and August 2006.Prior to embarking on Ozzfest 2006, Strapping Young Lad flew into New York City to shoot a music video for the song "Wrong Side" with director David Brodsky.The video can be seen at the My Good Eye production company website (www.Brodsky hired professional ballerinas to enhance the "heaven" set up and to "flit around Devin".Devin's comments about the album and 2006 live shows: "The recording process went amazingly well, and STRAPPING as a whole is really excited about this effort.You can think of us as the proverbial pubic hair in the cheesecake of this year's festival.Most of all, we're just really excited to be a part of Ozzfest and this summer is going to be crazy."Future
Strapping Young Lad's future is currently somewhat uncertain, as Devin has recently commented that he's tired of it all.At the end of the day, man, I'm just tired, and old, and bald, and fat, and grouchy, and bored.The bigger this gets, the less I care, to the point where I just need to go spend some time with my family.Hevy Devy Record's official website posted a press release which blamed a hectic touring and interview schedule for Devin's negative attitude, as well as his reluctance to embark on major tours and record label pressures.Two new releases will still be offered in 2007.It includes the 1996 demos of 'Home Nucleonics,' 'Detox,' and 'AAA'; Japanese bonus track 'Centipede'; the hilarious, previously unreleased 'Headrhoid (Gunt demo)'; the video for 'Detox' and humorous, insightful liner notes.Devin also noted in the above interview (with blistering.For example, he himself said that in order to get the mood for the Alien record, he stopped taking his medication for the disorder for a length of time, and the lyrics on that record are supposedly a reflection of some of his feelings during that time.Guitar Leads
For all of Strapping Young Lad's musical complexity, they have been known and sometimes criticized for not having guitar solos, even going so far as to contain an instrumental spot in the song where a solo might normally be found, but with no leads.On The New Black solos became even more prominent.Discography
For more on this topic, see Devin Townsend discography.Compilations
Tribute to Judas Priest (1996,contributes cover of "Exciter")
Tribute to Judas Priest, Vol."Sinner")
We Reach: The Music of the Melvins (2005, contributes cover of "Zodiac")
The Best of Taste of Chaos Two.Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing (1995)
"Detox" from City (1997)
"Relentless" from Strapping Young Lad (2003)
"Love?"Drums and Percussion
In live performances, SYL also recruit a keyboardist which usually changes on every tour.Their latest keyboardist is once again Will Campagna who previously handled keyboard duties.Previous keyboardists have been Munesh Sami and John Morgan.Tenet
Tenet is heavy metal band started by Simon and Hoglan (Hoglan was not in the band after 2006 but has recently reunited with Simon).It has released only a demo due to its members' commitment to Strapping Young Lad.It can be downloaded off of Tenet's message board on the official website.References In Popular Culture
Strapping Young Lad's video for the song 'Zen' is playing on the television in Smith's apartment in one scene in the movie Shoot Em Up.See Copyrights for details.Strapping Young Lad is the eponymous third album by Canadian heavy metal band Strapping Young Lad.The album's sound was somewhat of a departure from Strapping Young Lad's previous album, City, released in 1997.Drum Technician
Stevie J.See Copyrights for details.This video has been added to your favorites.The video has been added to your playlist.Thank you for sharing your concerns.Thank you for sharing your concerns.In order to process a privacy complaint we need more information from you.Thank you for sharing this video!Change this to see only comments above a certain value.But listen at the drums...Gene Hoglan is a MONSTER!Devin's got a great voice.He can go from Screaming to Very high.Would you like to comment?Directed and edited by David Brodsky (www.Directed and edited by David Brodsky (www.The video has been added to your playlist.This video will appear on your blog shortly.Content of this nature is not necessarily prohibited on YouTube, however we will review this video and take action as appropriate.There may be significant legal penalties for false notices.Please refer to our Help Center for more information and the complete instructions.In order to process a privacy complaint we need more information from you.Please refer to our Help Center for more information and the form to submit.Thank you for sharing this video!Change the value of a comment by clicking on a thumb.At 4:44 does the secruity guy pull a gun on the crowd?!Sounds of the Underground...Sounds of the Underground tour last year.After making your selection, copy and paste the embed code above."Are you sure you want to block this user?Band MembersJOIN THE STRAPPING YOUNG LAD STREET TEAM TODAY!!This is your chance to win cool prizes by
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