Strapping Young Lad – Wikipedia

Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad in 2006
General information
Origin	Vancouver, Canada
Genre(s)	Industrial Metal, Death Metal
founding	1995
resolution	2007
Website	www.strappingyounglad.com
Founding members
	Devin Townsend (until 2007)
Last cast
Lead singing, guttural vocals, guitar, studio keyboard	Devin Townsend (until 2007)
	Jed Simon (Studio guitar: 1995, studio keyboard: 2003, guitar & background singing: 1996–2007)
	Byron Stroud (1996–2007)
	Gene Hoglan (1996–2007)
Live support and session musician
after-content-x4 Life, keyboard	Chris Valagao (Studio-Gave Song: All Production, Live-keyboard: 2002)
Life	Evans asked (Studio-lives: 1996)
Life, keyboard	Dave Young (Studio-life / -keyboard: 2005)
Life	Bif Naked (Studio-lives: 2006)
Life	Dave „Oderus Urungus“ Brockie (Studio-lives: 2006)
guitar	Mike Sudar (Live/studio guitar: 1995)
Bass after-content-x4	Ashley Scribner (Live-/Studio-Bass: 1995)
Bass	Jon Miller (Live-Bass: 2005)
Bass	James MacDonough (Live-Bass: 2006)
Keyboard	Chris Meyers (Live-/Studio-Keyboard: 1995)
Keyboard	John Morgan (Live-Keyboard: 1997)
Keyboard	Matteo Caratozzolo (Live-Keyboard: 1997–1998, 2003)
Keyboard	Jamie Meyer (Live-Keyboard: 1998–1999)
Keyboard	Jason Filipchuk (Live-Keyboard: 1999)
Keyboard	Will Campagna (Live-Keyboard: 2002, Studio-Keyboard: 2005)
Keyboard	Munesh Sami (Live-Keyboard: 2002–2003)
Drums	Adrian White (Live/studio drums: 1995)
Drums	Chris Byes (Studio drums: 1995)
Drums	Smokin’ Lord Toot (Studio drums: 1995)

Strapping Young Lad (short SYL ) was an industrial/death metal band made of Vancouver in Canada, which consisted of 1995 to 2007. Devin Townsend, Jed Simon (Zimmer Hole), Byron Stroud (Zimmer Hole, Ex-Fear Factory) and Gene Hoglan (Testament, Zimmer Hole, Ex-Death, ex-Dark Angel) belonged to the band. All albums of the band were published by the Century Media label.

The band initially had the character of a side project by Devin Townsend. After the rather mediocre -judged debut album Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing From 1995, which realized Townsend with the help of many guest musicians, the band stabilized in 1997 in the line-up, including the previously active drummer Gene Hoglan. The album published in the same year City is now considered a classic of Industrial Metal.

The band went on a world tour the following year on which a show in Melbourne (Australia) for the LiveAlbum No Sleep Till Bedtime was recorded. The title of this album is an allusion to Motörheads 1981 LiveAlbum No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith . Afterwards, however, the band put on hold again to devote itself to its solo projects. The other band members founded their own projects such as Zimmer’s Hole (Simon/Stroud) or turned to other bands (Fear Factory, Testament and others). Curiously, Devin Townsends was solo album Physicist from the 2000 of the Syl line-up and more corresponded to the styles of the band as that of the previous solo albums, but was published as a town-sung solo album.

After five solo albums had recorded from 1997 to 2003 and also worked with some side projects and guest appearances and also produced albums of some bands, the band came together again in 2003 and took up the third album that bears the band name, which stylistically linked to its predecessor , but was partially classified by critics as too predictable.

Was on the albums Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing and City Devin Townsend the main composer and undisputed head of the band, the other band members took over more influence on songwriting from there. Since then are Strapping Young Lad Therefore, no more as a pure side project of Townsend, but as an independent band with equal members.

The live DVD was on renewed tours in 2004 For Those Aboot to Rock recorded. This also parodyed a well -known title, namely For Those About to Rock From AC/DC. This was followed in early 2005 Alien A new album, which also expanded the style of the band with more atmospheric, glandty accents in the style of Townsends solo albums, but otherwise it was much more brutal. The album was last published The New Black from 2006, which struck more calmer or more parodist tones and offered critical to satirical texts in the style of Zimmer’s hole. It is also noteworthy that the fact that a studio version of the song played since 1997 has only Far Beyond Metal is included, on which too Oderus urungus Alias ​​Dave Brockie von Gwar can be heard as a guest singer. Devin Townsend announced, however, after the album was released, to put the band on hold for family reasons and general exhaustion after a following world tour.
In May 2007, Devin Townsend announced his exit and thus the preliminary end for Strapping Young Lad. He would like to devote himself entirely to his solo projects.

All remaining band members play (with singer Chris “The Heathen” Valagao) currently in the band Zimmer Hole.

The band’s music is characterized by mostly very high pace, strongly distorted guitars and a futuristic atmosphere that is achieved by samples and keyboards. The focus of music is the very variable, emotionally charged and mostly aggressive singing of Devin Townsend. This is often very dynamic and eruptive and ranges from clear high locations to aggressive screams.

Studio albums [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• 1995: Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing (Century Media)
• 1997: City (Century Media)
• 2003: Strapping Young Lad (also known as S.Y.L. , Century Media)
• 2005: Alien (Century Media)
• 2006: The New Black (Century Media)

Live albums, video albums, best ofs, EPS and box sets [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

• 1998: No Sleep Till Bedtime (Livealbum, Century Media)
• 2003: Tour EP (Live EP limited to 2500 pieces, Century Media)
• 2004: For Those Aboot to Rock: Live at the Commodore (Live-DVD, Century Media)
• 2007: C:enter:### (7-“-Vinyl-EP, Records Records) limited to 500 pieces)
• 2008: 1994 to 2006 Chaos Years (Limited Best Of, Century Media)
• two thousand and thirteen: The Complete Works (on 700 pieces limited vinyl set, Blood Music)

1. ↑ Strapping Young Lad in the American album charts. billboard.com; accessed on November 3, 2010