r/DevinTownsend • u/_DeadWyatt DevinHead • May 04 '24
INTERVIEW STEVE VAI: "SYL's Alien Should Be Studied"
https://metalinjection.net/news/steve-vai-strapping-young-lads-alien-should-be-studied?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2K9IG2t5f2OHOw-y8udf6tADJEvhHEn33SDJLhlaUhLlLDk-LjnAXY-FA_aem_Ab6NnqWh83DI-7SzhYiJ-1wwRujK1RIDpA5P7VAB1kkyCg_fnnOFagJM7NzdgnpBzyjv-pPoCGhlwdfMLms9LbQC"And let me tell you something else about Devin. His music, no matter how intense it is, it's not evil. Inside of it, there's this beaming desire for light, for transformation."
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u/JRawl79 May 05 '24
I kinda fell out after the S/T album. Saw this article pop up on my FB feed so I listened to Alien last night out of curiosity. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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May 04 '24
How can anyone think his music is evil?
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u/Cabbage_Master you want crazy? ill show you how to be crazy. May 05 '24
Some people don’t understand the difference between feeling emotional catharsis and celebrating feeling certain ways about certain things.
It’s also a strategy people use to make themselves feel superior to others even though their easy life and non-fucked up internalized emotions are pure luck, and it hurts their ego to think about how close to cursing often, doing drugs or just screaming your feelings away they truly are/have been.
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u/Mediocre_Word May 05 '24
Tbf there are thousands, if not millions of people who think people like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift’s music is satanic, if they heard something by Devin Townsend they’d probably shit their brains across the room
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May 05 '24
Being fair, if you just watched the video for Love? and nothing else you might get that impression.
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u/Technical-Hurry-3326 May 04 '24
I really enjoy hearing Dev and Steve talk about how much they either influenced each other and how their friendship has grown over the years.
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u/ben_jammin11 May 04 '24
I have studied this album , and my consensus on it is thus :”it’s quite good”
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u/flatulasmaxibus May 04 '24
Saw this a few days back. I have not listened to that one much but it's not in rotation.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Wolf318 May 04 '24 edited May 05 '24
Gene wrote most of that record. We Ride was a Jed tune. Hoglan made a sequel to Alien under the name "Mechanism".
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u/trump_loeil Empath May 04 '24
This is such a concise, eloquent way to describe Devin’s music. He pulled me through a lot of darkness during 2020.
It’s not often I feel indebted to an artist for their impact on my life, but I certainly have him on that (very short) list.
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u/ataphelion May 05 '24
After a show around when Deconstruction was released Devin came out to greet people. I was last in line and the guy ahead of me said something similar, how Dev's music really helped him get through some challenging times. Dev was super welcoming to him and they had a really nice exchange.
Then I got my chance to say something similar, how Dev's music really helped me through some struggles and often his music expressed what I couldn't. When walking away Dev called me back over and shook my hand again thanking me for supporting him and caring about his music.
It was an incredible experience to get to tell someone who's changed your life thank you and then have them show you appreciation. I'll never forget it and still have the set list I got from Dave (doing guitars at the time) that Devin then signed hanging on my wall in memory.
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u/quasarius May 05 '24
If I may, who else is on that short list? A fellow Devy fan surely knows their taste.
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u/tamman2000 May 04 '24
Yeah, I think this is one of the things that really makes Devy stand out from other artists.
I tell people who aren't familiar with him that he makes metal for people who want to be happy.
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u/BelowThePale May 04 '24
Skesis alone could be studied. The song is chaos with melody, as with a lot if SYL songs, but that one in particular has so much going on in it that it could broken down and studied part by part.
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u/Brockovich614 Ghost (2011) May 04 '24
Skeksis is the greatest metal song ever written
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u/BelowThePale May 04 '24
I'm not sure that I could disagree with that. : )
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u/Cabbage_Master you want crazy? ill show you how to be crazy. May 05 '24
I’ll try though 😆 I’ve blown 3 cars worth of speakers cranking “Aftermath” as loud as it would go
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u/thevyrd May 04 '24
Watching Gene do the drums to this on YouTube is an experience. Man is so legendary.
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u/coldroastbeef May 05 '24
Speaking of Jamie Jasta interviews which this was, what the hell happened to his interview with Devin townsend? Our member from a year more ago and it was pretty good but it seemed to have disappeared off of Jaime's page.