Devin Townsend Project
Epicloud
HevyDevy (2012)
You may never suspect it, but listening to the catalogue of Canadian musician Devin Townsend will cause you to run the gamut of extreme metal, new age, arena rock, ambient, and somehow even more. His last four albums, released under the Devin Townsend Project moniker, were supposed to be an exploration of the vastness of his artistic abilities, and they certainly lived up to that billing, covering hard rock, pop dance, progressive metal, and soft ambient. Of course, throughout all of this stylistic experimentation, there was just one thing missing: the huge heavy metal that put Townsend on the map in the first place. As if to fill that void, a fifth album, Epicloud, was appended to the tetralogy, and though it was originally conceived as a quick collection of song ideas to get out of the way while working on Z2, it turned out much bigger than anyone expected it to be.If you've listened any of Townsend's big and heavy albums, like Ocean Machine: Biomech or Addicted, you know he has a propensity for writing music that pulls at the most guttural of musical instincts we posses, reaching the listener and becoming enjoyable on a level that's almost physical … Read more
Nathan Ellis
Self Titled
No Sleep (2012)
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Don Giovanni (2012)
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Deep Elm (2012)
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