Devin Townsend

As one of the UK’s leading bands stop touring, we need to talk about the toxic effect a ruined music industry is having on heavy metal

By Matt Mills published 12 February 26

Metalcore stars While She Sleeps are taking a hiatus from the road – if things don’t change, more artists will follow

Steve Vai gave Devin Townsend his big break in the early 1990s. Decades later they got back together

By Tom O' Boyle published 8 February 26

Metal Hammer brought the guitar master and his former apprentice back together in 2018

How metal’s ‘mad scientist’ swapped craziness for commerciality – and confused the hell out of a prog legend

By Stephen Hill published 25 January 26

Devin Townsend dialled back the aggro with Strapping Young Lad’s 2005 classic Love?

Devin Townsend discusses his prog world (while he’s hiding from his dogs)

By Dom Lawson published 3 December 25

Stick-collecting Canadian who preferred Motorhead to Marillion says Captain Beefheart didn’t know he was nuts, the Interstellar soundtrack floored him, and the Wildhearts are prog

The strange story of Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: Biomech, the album which launched his solo career

By Eleanor Goodman published 18 April 25

How Devin Townsend made his 1997 solo debut album Ocean Machine

The Devin Townsend albums you should listen to... and one to avoid

By Dom Lawson last updated 16 April 25

Canadian enigma Devin Townsend’s catalogue spans extreme metal, sublime prog-scapes, colossal riffs and extra-terrestrials. Where to begin?

"I first heard it when I started taking acid": Devin Townsend picks the soundtrack of his life

By Polly Glass published 17 January 25

Canadian maverick Devin Townsend names his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the music he listens to while mowing the lawn

Devin Townsend is slightly embarrassed by his new album, and that’s a good thing

By Phil Weller published 14 January 25

PowerNerd, the first of three autobiographical albums, was transformed into something unexpected as he began feeling like a liar, and wound up facing his 15-year-old self

The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer

By Rich Hobson published 9 January 25

From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 2024