Been on a Devin Townsend kick, listening to all my CeeDeez. Just been so re-in love with his music lately.
Finally broke down and bought the SYL remasters since they're going OOP and they've got liner notes and such. Not terribly pleased that the remastering wasn't done by Devin himself, since he produces and engineers all his albums, but they sound pretty good save for a few track indexing problems. ("Detox" does NOT begin with the riff, dammit.) The redone artwork kinda sucks compared to the original CDs, especially
City, but hey,
Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing has printed lyrics now, and that's awesome.
Funny to read Devin's thoughts on
HAARHT. "Basically two good songs and a bunch of demos." He even specifically shits on "Cod Metal King", which is too bad 'cos it's honestly my favorite song on the album.
GOAT! *cue shitty but supremely awesome sounding drum machine followed by repetitive groove track with superb ambience*
Cod Metal KingAlso grabbed the
1994–2006 Chaos Years CD. Compilation albums really aren't my thing, but I never knew before that the album contained a DVD with live performances and all their music videos, plus a booklet with track-by-track commentary by the band, and also each track was remastered by Devin Townsend (with "Detox" properly beginning with that cool crashing sound). So those were great reasons to grab the album finally.
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - Detox (OFFICIAL VIDEO)Love the industrial metal leanings of these two albums. Shame Dev never did more.