I feel another thread coming on. Something like, "How much do your friends or family hate Devin Townsend?"

You're a blasphemer? I'm a treasonous heretic! My wife hates, loathes and despises Devin Townsend and SYL. Seriously. I had to make a special smart playlist on my iPod that won't play any DT or SYL (it picks songs randomly based on my ratings and "played since"). It's sick. But, she gets pissed if it comes on. I don't know why. Anyway, burn me at the stake. It's my fault. I married her.

My girlfriend could be friends with your wife....

It feels good to see I'm not alone with this problem...

My wife experiences extreme stress and some nausea when I play anything by SYL. And the solo stuff usually leaves her strangely emotionless. At best she says things like: "This was actually listenable, is this really Devin Townsend?" (said with a hint of surprise), or "At least it isn't SYL" (said with a hint of torment, probably just before her leaving the room)...

That is pure evil... blaspheme
thant god my girl... my girl... I think Im gonna break into an ass-sordid demo.... hang on get a grip.... my missus likes devin. but very often will not be in the mood for SYL but still says she likes it.... maybe she's bullshitting me

hehe, my brother used into heavy stuff years ago, but now he's all listening to elbow, karate or the dave matthew's band. he certainly doesn't have the devy-obsession, but when i showed him shitstorm and told him to listen closely to the lyrics, he started to grin really childishly and got more and more excited. afterwards he said somthing like "man i'd have given quite a lot for machine head to sound like this when i was 17", and admitted that this was one excellent piece of angry music.
i'll still have to show him synchestra, and i'm quite optimistic...

in Judgement he sings "I'm so sorry" much in the way he does it in Planet Rain

Exactly: this album has allthe past connectec: Vampira - Bad Devil . ...and others ... Im drunk , so bear with me.....

So the general opinion is: Devin ripped himself off bigtime this album. j/k

Eh.... the beauty of Shakespeare is Titus Andronicus........

I feel another thread coming on. Something like, "How much do your friends or family hate Devin Townsend?"

Haha. I'd never play SYL for my parents. they'd freak out and think I was mental, which I couldn't deny.

Mum's a big fan of Synchestra.

Mum's a big fan of Synchestra.

Mum hates all the music I like. That's the way her musical taste is defined. It sucks...

Bringing back an old topic.....

Is it just me or does the last part of the baby song sound like a much more brooding version of the ending of "life is all dynamics"? And in Physicist, on the song "deviod", the ending I believe is repeated in a much slower version during the middle of Judgement right behind his "Baby, I'm so sorry".........if it is, that's cool as shit.

And I think the first part of the baby song is following the main riff on "metamorph" and an alteration of "the infinite waltz"...but I think that's been mentioned already, as well as the "war" riff part as well....

Bad Devil & Vampira...

Mum's a big fan of Synchestra.

Mum hates all the music I like. That's the way her musical taste is defined. It sucks...

Neither of my parents are all that into music. They love indian music, but not the good stuff like Ravi Shankar - they like the stupid pop bullshit in movies. It's kind of sickening!

Anyway, I listen to a bit of everything and their opinion is that my taste in music is on the "shitty" side

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to make this post (spoilers?), but there are a ton of Synchestra records all over The New Black now. He's really fleshing this out.

As long as that's as far as you go.

Actually.. just how many songs include Dev singing "I'm so sorryyyy!" ??

My mom loves Dev.

the intro to 'polyphony' (the first part of the new black) is identical to judgement

Anyway! I noticed a chord progression in a song that sounded like the intro to Storm.

Yeah, now that I hear that one, which is called Judgement, I can see the reference, maybe he does as a continuation of the songs, or something like that.