Devin Townsend was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, on May 5, 1972. Townsend designed his two main projects, the aggressive Strapping Young Lad and his more melodic solo material. Strapping Young Lad's music was a diverse mix of extreme metal genres; death metal, thrash metal, black metal and industrial metal. Townsend's solo material blends many genres and influences, with elements of atmospheric ambient music, hard rock and progressive rock, along with pop metal and arena rock. Despite Strapping Young Lad's greater mainstream acceptance, Townsend identifies more with his solo material, and has never intended Strapping Young Lad to be the focus of his music. As a self-proclaimed "fan of multitracking", Townsend has developed a trademark production style featuring an atmospheric, layered "wall of sound". In 2007, Townsend disbanded both Strapping Young Lad and The Devin Townsend Band in order to spend more time with his family and less time touring. Townsend has since produced a number of albums for other groups, and continues to write and release self-produced albums from his home studio. Townsend is currently working on a four-album series called The Devin Townsend Project, with each album being written in a different style. The first entry in the series, Ki, was released in May 2009. Addicted, the second album of the series, was released on November 17th, 2009.
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