| Artist: | Strapping Young Lad |
| Studio: | 5 |
| Live: | 2 |
| Compilation: | 1 |
| Music Videos: | 7 |
| Video: | 1 |
| Ep: | 2 |
| Option: | 1 |
| Option Name: | Box set albums |
| Artist: | Devin Townsend |
| Studio: | 22 |
| Live: | 4 |
| Compilation: | 3 |
| Music Videos: | 20 |
| Video: | 3 |
| Ep: | 4 |
| Singles: | 13 |
| Option: | 6 |
| Option Name: | Box set albums |
Devin Townsend is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and record producer.
After launching his musical career in 1993 with singing effort on Vai's Sex & Religion and subsequent tour, Townsend released the album Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing under the pseudonym Strapping Young Lad, in 1995.[1] His debut solo release was 1996's Punky Brüster – Cooked on Phonics. Townsend formed a band under the Strapping Young Lad name to perform his next album, the industrial metal album City, in 1997. Townsend started a project initially called Biomech, under the Ocean Machine moniker, to release his less metal-influenced music. It was ultimately released under his own name as 1997's .[2] This was followed by his first charting album, the 1998 album Infinity, which appeared at number 29 in Japan. Strapping Young Lad went on hiatus at this time so that Townsend could focus on his solo music,[3] which had a varying lineup of supporting musicians. His 2000 release Physicist reached number 80 in Japan, and was followed by the 2001 release Terria which charted in France and Japan.
In 2002, Townsend reunited Strapping Young Lad and formed a new group, The Devin Townsend Band, as a permanent fixture for recording and touring for his solo material. The two bands recorded new albums simultaneously, and released Strapping Young Lad and Accelerated Evolution, respectively, in 2003.[4] The former was Townsend's first album to chart in the US, appearing at number 97 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart. Townsend also released a special edition of Accelerated Evolution which included an EP called Project EKO. The EP was Townsend's first foray into electronica, a genre which he explored further with Devlab in 2004. Strapping Young Lad released Alien in 2005, which charted in four countries, reaching 32 on Top Heatseekers. In 2006, both bands released their final albums, The Devin Townsend Band's Synchestra charting in three European countries[5] [6] and Strapping Young Lad's The New Black climbing to last place on the Billboard 200. He also released a third electronica piece, an ambient album called The Hummer.
In 2007, Townsend disbanded both Strapping Young Lad and The Devin Townsend Band to spend more time with his family and less time touring.[7] [8] That year, a solo comedic concept album, Ziltoid the Omniscient, was released. Townsend put his music on hiatus for a year, doing production work for other artists. In late 2008, he began recording a four-album series called the Devin Townsend Project, using a different musical style and band of supporting musicians for each album.[9] [10] The first entry in the series, a relatively quiet rock album called Ki, was released in May 2009,[11] reaching number 26 in Finland and appearing on the UK Indie[12] and UK Rock[13] charts. The second album in the series, a more heavy album called Addicted, was released in November 2009, reaching number 36 in Finland and number 2 on the US Heatseekers chart.[14] The third and fourth albums in the series, a metal album called Deconstruction and a new-age album called Ghost, were released simultaneously on June 20, 2011. After the four albums Townsend decided to continue under the Devin Townsend Project moniker and released the fifth record, entitled Epicloud, on September 18, 2012. The first album in its eponymous series, Casualties of Cool, was released on May 14, 2014.[15] [16] [17] The most recent studio albums include a double concept album project called Z² and seventh Devin Townsend Project album Transcendence, released on October 27, 2014 and September 9, 2016, respectively.[18] [19] Townsend released his next solo album titled Empath on March 29, 2019. On December 3, 2021, he released The Puzzle and Snuggles, his next two studio albums, simultaneously. Lightwork, his latest studio album, was released on November 4, 2022.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [20] | FIN [21] | FRA [22] | JPN [23] | SWE [24] | US 200 [25] | US Heat [26] | US Indie | ||||
| Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Reissued in 2006 with three bonus tracks. | |
| City |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Reissued in 2007 with five bonus tracks and again in 2012 with a second CD consisting of an audio version of For Those Aboot to Rock. | |
| Strapping Young Lad |
| 64 | — | — | 154 | — | — | 97 | — | ||
| Alien |
| 74 | — | 156 | 185 | 48 | — | 32 | 35 | ||
| The New Black |
| 63 | 17 | 139 | 164 | — | 200 | 8 | 15 | Limited digipak edition features two bonus tracks. | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tour EP |
| Limited edition of 2,500 copies, features tracks from Strapping Young Lad album. | |
| C:enter:### |
| Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, includes Japanese-only bonus track "C:enter:###" from The New Black, a cover of Melvins song "Zodiac" and live versions of "In the Rainy Season" and "Underneath the Waves". |
| Year | Title | Album | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | "S.Y.L." | Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing | Blair Dobson[30] |
| 1997 | "Detox" | City | Dermit Shane[31] |
| 2003 | "Relentless" | Strapping Young Lad | Marcus Rogers[32] |
| 2005 | "Love?" | Alien | Joe Lynch[33] |
| 2006 | "Zen" | Marcus Rogers[34] | |
| "Wrong Side" | The New Black | David Brodsky[35] | |
| 2007 | "Almost Again" | Konrad Palkiewicz |
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS | FIN | FRA [36] [37] | GER | JPN [38] | UK [39] | US 200 [40] | US Heat [41] [42] | US Indie [43] | ||||
| Punky Brüster – Cooked on Phonics |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Satire concept album, parody of punk rock music, specifically the pop-punk sub-genre. | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Originally released as "Biomech" under the Ocean Machine moniker. | ||
| Infinity |
| — | — | — | — | 29 | — | — | — | — | 2003 CD re-release includes three bonus tracks. 2023 25th anniversary re-release with updated album artwork features the remastered album, four demo tracks from the Christeen EP and two acoustic bonus tracks. | |
| Physicist |
| — | — | — | — | 80 | — | — | — | — | Features an identical lineup to that of Strapping Young Lad. | |
| Terria |
| — | — | 125 | — | 81 | — | — | — | — | Limited CD edition's second disc features "Universal" b-side and extra video content. | |
| Accelerated Evolution |
| — | — | 135 | — | 249 | — | — | — | — | First album by The Devin Townsend Band. Special CD edition includes a bonus disc titled Project EKO, featuring three tracks. | |
| Devlab |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Ambient soundscape produced entirely by Townsend. | |
| Synchestra |
| — | 33 | 128 | 85 | — | — | — | — | — | Second and final album by The Devin Townsend Band. Special CD edition includes a bonus DVD titled Safe Zone, featuring live performances of eight songs. | |
| The Hummer |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Second ambient soundscape following 2004's Devlab. | |
| Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Special CD edition includes a second disc featuring three bonus tracks and extra video content. | |
| Ki |
| — | 26 | 179 | — | — | — | — | 69 | — | First album of the Devin Townsend Project. | |
| Addicted |
| — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 22 | Second album of the Devin Townsend Project. | |
| Deconstruction |
| — | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | 23 | 40 | Third album of the Devin Townsend Project. | |
| Ghost |
| — | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | 40 | Fourth album of the Devin Townsend Project. | |
| Epicloud |
| 80 | 8 | 96 | 87 | — | 61 | 105 | 1 | 26 | Fifth album of the Devin Townsend Project. Deluxe CD edition includes a second disc titled Epiclouder, featuring 10 additional tracks. | |
| Casualties of Cool |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 26 | Townsend's country and blues rock album project featuring Ché Aimee Dorval and Morgan Ågren. Deluxe editions include a second CD featuring 13 additional tracks. | |
| Z² |
| 72 | 4 | 101 | 57 | — | 46 | 73 | — | 26 | Double concept album, consisting of Dark Matters (a sequel to Ziltoid the Omniscient) and Sky Blue (sixth album of the Devin Townsend Project). Stand-alone CD and 2×LP versions of both albums were released in 2015. | |
| Transcendence |
| 10 | 2 | 74 | 43 | — | 26 | 117 | — | 14 | Seventh and final album of the Devin Townsend Project. Deluxe CD edition and vinyl edition include a bonus disc titled Holding Patterns, featuring 11 additional tracks. | |
| Empath |
| 10 | 2 | 60 | 12 | — | 23 | 169 | — | — | Limited CD edition includes a bonus disc titled Tests of Manhood, featuring 10 additional tracks. | |
| The Puzzle / Snuggles |
| — | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Released together on physical formats, but issued separately on digital platforms. | |
| Lightwork |
| 85 | 9 [44] | 131 [45] | — | — | 50 | — | — | — | Limited CD edition includes a bonus disc titled Nightwork, featuring 10 additional tracks. | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Official Bootleg | Live album recorded in Tokyo (1999) and Vancouver (2000). | |
| Acoustically Inclined: Live in Leeds |
| Acoustic live album recorded in April 2019 at Leeds City Varieties in UK. First album of the "Devolution Series". |
| Galactic Quarantine |
| Recording of a live stream concert originally aired on September 5, 2020. Second album of the "Devolution Series". |
| Empath: Live in America |
| Live album recorded at the Corona Theatre in Montreal on February 26, 2020 and the Paradise Rock Club in Boston on March 1, 2020. Third album of the "Devolution Series". |
| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ass-Sordid Demos |
| Compilation of Devin Townsend and Grey Skies demos recorded in 1990–1996. |
| Ass-Sordid Demos II |
| Compilation of Noisescapes, Grey Skies and Devin Townsend demos recorded in 1991–1993. |
| Ancient |
| Compilation of Grey Skies, Strapping Young Lad and Devin Townsend demos recorded in 1986–1994. Released accompanying Townsend's autobiography Only Half There. |
| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Contain Us |
| Includes four original Devin Townsend Project albums and both released and unreleased bonus material; limited to 5,000 copies, 500 hand-numbered copies featured a special 10" vinyl and a signed drawing. |
| Includes live material of four special Devin Townsend Project concerts held in London in November 2011; limited to 5,000 copies. | |
| Eras: Vinyl Collection Part I |
| Vinyl box set including four original Devin Townsend Project albums (Ki, Addicted, Deconstruction and Ghost); released as black, clear and transparent blue vinyl versions, altogether limited to 2,000 copies.[46] |
| Eras: Vinyl Collection Part II |
| Vinyl box set including solo albums Ocean Machine: Biomech, Infinity, Physicist and Terria with The Devin Townsend Band album Synchestra; released as black, clear and orange vinyl versions, altogether limited to 2,500 copies.[47] |
| Eras: Vinyl Collection Part III |
| Vinyl box set including The Devin Townsend Band album Accelerated Evolution with Devin Townsend Project albums Epicloud, Sky Blue, Transcendence and Live at the Royal Albert Hall ("by request" part of the Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall live album); released as black, clear and dark green vinyl versions, altogether limited to 2,500 copies.[48] |
| Eras: Vinyl Collection Part IV |
| Vinyl box set including studio albums Ziltoid the Omniscient and Dark Matters with live albums Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall and The Retinal Circus; released as black, orange and transparent green vinyl versions, altogether limited to 2,500 copies.[49] |
| Title | Album details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Christeen + 4 Demos |
| Includes the "Christeen" single and four B-sides from the Infinity sessions. |
| Live in Baltimore |
| 5-song live EP by the Devin Townsend Project. |
| Unplugged |
| EP recorded as a limited edition for UK acoustic shows in July 2011. |
| Iceland |
| Acoustic album released together with Townsend's autobiography titled Only Half There. |
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIN [50] | SWE [51] | |||
| The Retinal Circus |
| 1 | 11 | Live video recording of a special show held at Roundhouse, London in October 2012. Released as three standard versions alongside two limited edition box sets.[52] [53] |
| Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall |
| — | — | Live video recording of a special show held at Royal Albert Hall, London in April 2015. Released as standard versions alongside a limited edition box set, containing all formats and a hardcover book. |
| Ocean Machine: Live at the Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv |
| — | — | Live video recording of a special show held at the Roman Theatre of Plovdiv, Bulgaria in September 2017. Released as standard versions alongside a limited edition box set, containing all formats and a hardcover book. |
| Order of Magnitude: Empath Live Volume 1 |
| — | — | Live video recording of a show of the "Empath Volume 1" tour held at Roundhouse, London in December 2019. Released as standard versions alongside a limited edition box set, containing all formats and a hardcover book. |
| Year | Title | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | "Christeen"
| Infinity | Features "Wild Colonial Boy" and "Night" as B-sides. |
| 2011 | "Juular"
| Deconstruction | Blue-gray picture disc, features "Feather (edit)" as a B-side. Originally only made available as a part of a limited "The Calm & the Storm" bundle, featuring Deconstruction and Ghost albums. |
| 2012 | "Kingdom"
| Epicloud | White picture disc, features "Heatwave (demo)" as a B-side. Originally only made available to VIP attendees of The Retinal Circus concert as "Soft Inc. EP".[54] |
"Coast (Take Two)"
| By a Thread: Live in London | Single-sided picture disc, limited to 1,000 hand-numbered copies. All copies include hand-written and signed certificate by Townsend. | |
| 2013 | "Lucky Animals"
| Epicloud | Clear vinyl, features "Truth (live)" as a B-side. Record Store Day exclusive release.[55] |
| 2016 | "Failure"
| Transcendence | |
"Secret Sciences"
| |||
"Stormbending"
| |||
| 2019 | "Genesis"
| Empath | |
"Evermore"
| |||
| 2022 | "Moonpeople"
| Lightwork | |
"Call of the Void"
| |||
"Lightworker"
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| Year | Title | Album | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | "Life" | Ocean Machine: Biomech | |
| 1998 | "Christeen" | Infinity | |
| 2003 | "Storm" | Accelerated Evolution | Marcus Rogers[56] |
| 2006 | "Vampira" | Synchestra | Marcus Rogers[57] |
| 2009 | "Coast" | Ki | Konrad Palkiewicz |
| "Bend It Like Bender!" | Addicted | Konrad Palkiewicz | |
| 2010 | "Supercrush!" | Konrad Palkiewicz | |
| 2011 | "Juular" | Deconstruction | David Brodsky |
| 2012 | "Lucky Animals" | Epicloud | Devin Townsend |
| 2014 | "Mountaintop" | Casualties of Cool | Jessica Cope |
| "Flight" | Konrad Palkiewicz | ||
| 2016 | "Stormbending" | Transcendence | |
| 2019 | "Genesis" | Empath | |
| "Evermore" | |||
| "Spirits Will Collide" | |||
| "Why?" | |||
| 2020 | "Sprite" | ||
| 2022 | "Moonpeople" | Lightwork | |
| "Call of the Void" | |||
| "Lightworker" |
Devin Townsend has appeared on numerous albums outside of his solo material and Strapping Young Lad, often filling the role as the producer.[58] [59]
| Year | Album | Artist | Credit(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Sex & Religion | Steve Vai | Vocals | |
| 1994 | IR8 | IR8 | Guitar | |
| Millennium | Front Line Assembly | Guitar on "Division of Mind", "Vigilante" and "Sex Offender" | ||
| 1995 | Hard Wired | Front Line Assembly | Guitar on "Circuitry", "Modus Operandi", "Transparent Species", "Barcode" and "Condemned" | |
| Alien Love Secrets | Steve Vai | Spoken word at the end of song "Juice" | ||
| 1996 | Working Man – A Tribute to Rush | Various Artists | Vocals on "Natural Science" | |
| Convergence | James Murphy | Vocals on "Since Forgotten", vocals and keys on "The Last One" | ||
| Fire Garden | Steve Vai | Vocals on "Whookam" | ||
| Pigwalk | Stuck Mojo | Producer, vocals on "Animal" and "Violate", guitar on "Inside My Head" | ||
| 1997 | Urge | The Wildhearts | Vocals on "Kill Me to Death" | |
| Stillborn | Unit:187 | Guitar, vocals | ||
| Loaded | Unit:187 | Producer | ||
| GRRRR! | Various Artists | |||
| Bound by Fire | Zimmers Hole | |||
| A Tribute to Judas Priest – Legends of Metal | Various Artists | Vocals, guitars, keyboards and production on "Sinner" | ||
| 1998 | Anarchic Airwaves | The Wildhearts | Guitar | |
| Remix dystemper | Skinny Puppy | Guitar on "Worlock (Rhys Fulber – Eye of the Beholder Mix)" | ||
| 2001 | Music for Them Asses | The Almighty Punchdrunk | Producer, guitar, synthesizer | |
| Legion of Flames | Zimmers Hole | Producer | ||
| Someone Please Kill Me | Frygirl | |||
| Finger It Out | Just Cause | |||
| Violate This | Stuck Mojo | Producer, vocals on "Wrathchild" and "Shout at the Devil" | ||
| 2002 | Evenlight | Evenlight | Producer, vocals on "Los Bad Guy 'Os" and "Pay", guitar on "Rat in a Maze" and "Tapper" | |
| The Lament Configuration | December | Producer | ||
| Symbol of Life | Paradise Lost | Vocals on "Two Worlds" and "Small Town Boy" | ||
| The De-Evolution of Yasmine Bleeth | Sir Millard Mulch | Spoken word on "The Great Strength of Our Order" | ||
| Natural Born Chaos | Soilwork | Producer, vocals on "Black Star Deceiver" and "Soilworker's Song of the Damned" | ||
| A Tribute to the Beast Vol. 2 | Various Artists | Producer, vocals on "Wrathchild" (with Stuck Mojo) | ||
| 2003 | As the Palaces Burn | Lamb of God | Producer, guitar on "A Devil in God's Country" | |
| 2004 | The Human Equation | Ayreon | Lyrics and vocals on "Day Three: Pain", "Day Eight: School" and "Day Sixteen: Loser" | |
| Heavilution | The Heavils | Producer | ||
| Ten Ways from Sunday | Ten Ways from Sunday | |||
| Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | Misery Signals | Producer, vocals on "A Victim, a Target" | ||
| 2005 | How to Sell the Whole F#@!ing Universe to Everybody... Once and for All | Sir Millard Mulch | Spoken word on "The Great Strength of Our Professional Affiliations/How to Spend Music Industry Currency" | |
| Undoing Ruin | Darkest Hour | Producer | ||
| 2006 | Beyond Hell | Gwar | Producer, vocals on "Tormentor" | |
| 2007 | Deliver Us | Darkest Hour | Producer, guitar on "Full Imperial Collapse" | |
| If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say, Start a Band | Removal | Vocals on "Layers of the Union" | ||
| Iron Gag | A Life Once Lost | Guitar solo on "Detest" | ||
| Sworn to a Great Divide | Soilwork | Vocal production | ||
| Summon in Thunder | Himsa | |||
| 2008 | When You Were Shouting at the Devil... We Were in League with Satan | Zimmers Hole | Producer | |
| Controller | Misery Signals | |||
| Declaration | Bleeding Through | |||
| Dichotomy | Becoming the Archetype | |||
| Terror Syndrome | Terror Syndrome | Mixing, guitar on "Spinning Backwards" | ||
| 2009 | Monolith | Sights & Sounds | Producer | |
| The Internal Dialogue | Contrive | Mixing | ||
| Constellations | August Burns Red | Additional mixing | ||
| Bury Me Alive | Inhale Exhale | MIxing | ||
| In Your Room | Agua de Annique | Writer on "Just Fine" | ||
| Guitars That Ate My Brain | Various Artists | Writer and performer on "Nerd Alert" | ||
| 2010 | Ich tu dir weh | Rammstein | Remixing on "Rammlied" | |
| 2011 | Sea Shepherd EP | Gojira | Vocals on "Of Blood and Salt" | |
| Noistalgia | Bent Sea | Producer, bass | ||
| SIN-atra | Various Artists | Vocals on "New York, New York" | ||
| 2012 | Eremita | Ihsahn | Vocals on "Introspection" | |
| Burning in Water... Drowning in Flame | Pitch Black Forecast | Guitar and backing vocals on "Open Letter to God" | ||
| 2013 | We Are (single) | Revolution Harmony | Guitar solo | |
| Wild Card | ReVamp | Vocals on "The Anatomy of a Nervous Breakdown: Neurasthenia" | ||
| 2015 | Batterie Deluxe | Morgan Ågren | Writer and performer on "F Files" | |
| Viscera | Haunted Shores | Vocals on "Feed the Wolf" | ||
| Take Me Home | Shelter Dogs | Bass and backing vocals, writer on "Past Be Gone" | ||
| The Direction of Last Things | Intronaut | Mixing | ||
| 2016 | Modern Primitive | Steve Vai | Vocals on "The Lost Chord" | |
| Decades of Destruction | Various Artists | Performer on "Fast as a Shark" | ||
| Velcro Kid | Thomas Giles | Vocals on "Gazer" | ||
| 2017 | Outsider | Comeback Kid | Vocals on "Absolute" | |
| III: Dark Black | Mutation | Writing, performer | ||
| 2018 | The Reworks | Pendulum | Remixing and vocals on "Crush" | |
| Structural Fatigue | Process | Mixing | ||
| 2020 | Ultraviolet | Misery Signals | Co-producer, backing vocals | |
| 2021 | Songs for the Apocalypse (An Auditory Excursion of Whimsical Delirium) | Jason Bieler and the Baron von Bielski Orchestra | Guitar solo on "Bring Out Your Dead" | |
| Afterworld | All India Radio | Vocals on "Sula Guin" | ||
| SepulQuarta | Sepultura | Vocals, guitars and mixing on "Mask" | ||
| Classics | Four Stroke Baron | Mixing | ||
| New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 2 | Me and That Man | Vocals on "Goodbye" | ||
| 2024 | II: Frailty | OU | Mixing, co-producer, vocals on "Purge" | |