Devin Townsend

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Type

Person

Country

CA

Active from

1972-05-05

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Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian musician and record producer from New Westminster, British Columbia. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2007 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist, in which his work usually leans more towards a progressive metal style. After performing in a number of metal bands in high school, Townsend was discovered by a record label in 1993 and was asked to perform l

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

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Cited by

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data

   · 2006 · cited 7,144x

2. 2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults

   · 2014 · cited 6,388x

3. Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

   · 2008 · cited 6,051x

4. Extinction risk from climate change

   · 2004 · cited 5,880x

5. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016

   · 2017 · cited 4,959x

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Quotes

• “I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.”
• “Can you imagine a fulfilled society? Whoa, what would everyone do?”
• “I want the ability to do whatever I want without a whole fleet of lawyers and record companies analyzing it and telling me what to do. It's like the success of doing it that way doesn't mean enough to me as an artist or a person for me to fight about it. I'm not going to fight anymore I'm just going to do it the way I want to do it. Why am I going to do it that way and be so obstinate? Because I don't care enough about it to spend that much time on it.”
• “I think I have more of a fear of success. I want to have a good time, I want to hang out with my friends and laugh about shit, I want to make music where I can just say 'Hey, check this out, this is crazy, have a listen…and anyway, what did you do today?'”
• “The thing with the STRAPPING thing is that, it might sound cheesy but whatever I say I'm going to do I'm going to do. I told them I'd do five records — I did five records. At the end of it they offered us this big deal, we'll re-sign you, we've got all these big bands that'll take you out on the road now. I just said 'I'm done, I told you, I'm done.' There's a good chance that if it hadn't gone to the level that it has then we might be doing it still.”
• “I suck dick for crack money!”

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Official website

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