Strapping Young Lad is tagged as: industrial metal, death metal, progressive metal, metal, thrash metal Strapping Young Lad was an influential Industrial / Death / Thrash metal band from Vancouver, Canada, started by Devin Townsend in 1994, Now disbanded (see Devin Townsend Project). Strapping Young Lad is the angrier, more aggressive side of Devin Townsend (While The Devin Townsend Band is popularly known as the happier side). Strapping Young Lad began as a solo project by Canadian musician Devin Townsend. Once he had completed his work as vocalist on Steve Vai’s Sex and Religion and that album’s subsequent tour, he recorded the majority of the instruments on the debut album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing. Rather than remain a solo project, additional members and the release of the album City, saw SYL secure their line-up permanently. City was released to a huge response, prompting Kerrang! magazine to call it one of the heaviest albums ever. Even if officially disbanded in 1998, SYL continued to tour under Devin’s name until the summer 2002 when they announced SYL was back with a new album. SYL’s third album, the self titled Strapping Young Lad, marked SYL’s first release on Devin’s own label, Hevy Devy Records, which was founded just after the release of City and is managed by Devin and his wife Tracy. During the Keep It In The Fa... Read More About Strapping Young Lad Biography...  Send Strapping Young Lad ringtones to your cell
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