Kristiko

Katatonia - City Burials (album)

Fear Factory - Digimortal (album)

Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol (album)

David Bowie - Earthling (album)

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (album)

White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000 (album)

Strapping Young Lad - Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing (album)

Static-X - Cannibal (album)

Meshuggah - Immutable (album)

On 3/31/2024 at 8:42 AM, Nasty_Cabbage said:

You know, I'm not huge into Strapping Young Lad or Devin's solo stuff so I don't really know where this one ranks among his fanbase. The only one I own and still play regularly is Synchestra. Without my rose tinted nostalgia glasses though, I have to admit that one is a really up and down listening experience. I also recall a lot of people lauding Ocean Machine, but still a ways from being everyone's consensus number one of his.

Then this album dropped and really hit me with a straight up right hook, and for a few months I was all about it. I don't see too many people talking about this one. Are you a fan? If so where do you rank this among his other albums (and for the sake of clarity lets just count the SYL albums and that weird Ziltoid saga thing as part of his catalogue).

I do have a lot of respect for Devin though. You don't get to bring Steve Vai a water when he's on stage unless your musical midi-chlorians are supernaturally high.

NP: Chapel of Disease - The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art.

• CHAPEL OF DISEASE - The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art [Full-length Album] OSDM - YouTube

I tried the new album from them yesterday, and I have to say they've really fallen off a cliff. This album's good. I just don't know how you get from that to whatever the new one was.

 

I had a lot of love for Devin's music until the Z2 double record (2014). After that, I was quite tired of his formula, and I stopped listening to his music. This album came out of nowhere so I gave it a shot. It was refreshing to hear that music after many years, but I wouldn't say I'd like to hear tons of new music from him, he's so productive that it becomes unlistenable.

Rammstein - Mutter (album)

Devin Townsend - Empath (album)

In Flames - Soundtrack to Your Escape (album)

Machine Head - The Blackening (album)

Slayer - Hell Awaits (album)

Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip (album)

Pantera - Far Beyond Driven (album)

Pantera - Reinventing The Steel (album)

Static X - Cult of Static (album)

Type O Negative - Dead Again (album)

Static-X - Project: Regeneration Vol. 2 (album)

Ministry - Hopium for the Masses (album)

Soundgarden - Superunknown (album)

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (album)

Disturbed - The Sickness (album)

Meshuggah - ObZen (album)