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"Prog music, or heavy music in general, is a very conservative scene. When you are willing to expose yourself emotionally, it’s a vulnerable place to be." Devin Townsend tackles The Prog Interview

From his early days with Steve Vai to battling through mental health problems and explaining to Prog just why he prefers Beefheart over Zappa, there’s much to cover in this therapeutic discussion…

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“I’m happy to say it’s exceptionally heavy.” Devin Townsend is recording a “crushing, emotional” new album called Powernerd

Fans of Hevy Devy’s days in Strapping Young Lad could well be satiated by the sound of his upcoming album

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Chinese prog metallers OU return with second abum 蘇醒 II: Frailty

Chinese prog quartet OU will release second abum 蘇醒 II: Frailty in April

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NAMM 2024: Laney antes up with the launch of the world’s most-powerful FRFR guitar cabinet – a 4x12 monster packing 2600W that was developed with Devin Townsend

You will hear the Laney LFR-412 in action on Guthrie Govan's forthcoming tour with The Aristocrats... With max volume a jet plane rivalling 139dB, you will hear it from anywhere!

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NAMM 2024: “I truly believe it’s a game changer”: Laney go big with the world’s most powerful FRFR cabinet, a 2,600W 4x12 that’s almost as loud as a jetplane taking off

The British amp builders have teamed up with prog metal mastermind Devin Townsend for the LFR-412, the world’s first 4x12 dedicated FRFR guitar cabinet – and your neighbors will hate it…

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"It’s just a marginally horny karaoke booth." Lord Of The Lost cover everyone from Judas Priest to Lady Gaga on Weapons Of Mass Seduction - but if you're tackling such legends, you just have to do better

Lord Of The Lost's bloated new covers album is harmless fun, but absolutely nothing more than that

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Devin Townsend talks Infinity and beyond: "It was a lot of folk music… a lot of abstract orchestral music – because of Star Wars, because of The Dark Crystal... and then Def Leppard, Metallica and Enya and we’re good to go"

Townsend reflects on his Infinity album anniversary, genre-bending, and why he remains inspired by delay and listening for patterns in abstract loops

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“A band can be one thing for so many years then change into something completely different”: Once a bit metal, Leprous now have more in common with Marillion than with ritualistic rebellion against ideology

Yes, they were Ihsan’s backing group… yes, they use to play extreme music and wear corpse paint… but lead singer Einar Solberg explains they’re really a grandiose prog unit.

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The 10 greatest solo albums in heavy metal history

Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford and Ozzy Osbourne have all proven you don’t need to be in a band to make top-notch heavy metal

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Watch John Petrucci and Zakk Wylde jam onstage for the first time ever as they dial up the shred on BLS’s Suicide Messiah

A little bit of history was made this weekend at John Petrucci’s Guitar Universe 4.0

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Tosin Abasi declares John Petrucci the GOAT and gifts him an Abasi Concepts ēmi 8-string in a cult classic Picasso finish

Classy player, classy guitar, classy gesture as the epic Dreamsonic tour featuring Dream Theater, Animals As Leaders and Devin Townsend comes to an end

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“The biggest challenge for digital products is not the tone”: John Petrucci, Tosin Abasi and Devin Townsend explain what modelers don’t do as well as amps – yet

The trio of prog metal guitar titans sat down with Rick Beato and went deep on the state of modeling

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"The biggest challenge for the digital products is not the tone" – John Petrucci doesn't believe modelling can provide the kind of 'random' moments that tube amps can yet… but Neural DSP has got the closest to "the missing piece"

"It's the feel thing… it's all happening very randomly"

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Steve Vai hails Devin Townsend as “a bona fide genius” – but admits HevyDevy’s talent was “a little squelched” when he fronted his band

Vai says Townsend is “as brilliant as they come” but he didn't fully appreciate it until the Canadian prog-metal virtuoso went solo

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Prog's Tracks Of The Week: brand new music from Soen, Devin Townsend and more

Cool new prog music to check out from Jo Beth Young, HeKz, Emma Tricca, Red32, Harald Plontke and more..

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Devin Townsend says the Beatles would have used digital guitar gear: “How can you imagine for a second that they wouldn’t have utilized it?”

In his latest defence of digital gear, the metal maestro suggested the Fab Four would have been fans of such tech had it been available to them in their prime

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“I hadn’t heard such clarity and definition before”: Tosin Abasi overhauls his backline with new stereo tube amp rig

The Animals as Leaders mastermind – and former Axe-Fx devotee – has switched to Bad Cat Amps for his tour with Dream Theater and Devin Townsend

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Tosin Abasi teams up with Bad Cat Amps and is using a prototype Jet Black model on tour with Dream Theater

The Animals As Leaders guitarist is also playing a Lynx head, and you can hear them in action as he joined John Petrucci et al for an all-star performance of DT's The Spirit Carries On

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Watch John Petrucci and Tosin Abasi lock fretboards for spellbinding harmonies on Dream Theater's The Spirit Carries On

With the help of Devin Townsend – and Ernie Ball Music Man's Kaizen and Majesty models – the two prog heroes brought Dream Theater's recent tour show to a mesmerizing close

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10 classic metal songs that prove keyboards can be cool

Voyager frontman Danny Estrin picks ten mega, keyboard-powered metal anthems

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Naim Mu-So review: Yeah, this thing still rules

The Naim Mu-So 2nd generation has been around for some time now, but it easily remains one of the best all-in-one home audio systems – and it looks stunning too.

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Deftones’ Stephen Carpenter is now playing Kiesel guitars – but will continue endorsing ESP at the same time

The Deftones guitarist’s new model lineup begs the question: are dual-brand endorsement deals the future for signature artists?

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Devin Townsend added as headline act for ArcTanGent

Haken, Aiming For Enrique, OURCODENAMEIS:MILO, Ashenspire, CLT DRP and more added to the bill...

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Klone guitarist Guillaume Bernard on Devin Townsend, Gojira, Biréli Lagrène and the 10 albums that changed his life

As the massively underrated French band with big crossover potential finally visit the UK again on tour, we talk creativity and influence

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I turned my HiFi system into a very expensive HomePod – but there's a catch

I love how useful my HomePods are, but I don't like the way they sound. I love how my HiFi sounds, but it's not very convenient. What if I could mix the two together...

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