Artist: Strapping Young Lad   Genre(s): 
Metal: Thrash
   Hardcore
   Rock
   Metal: Alternative
   Alternative
   Punk   
Discography:
    The New Black   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11
    Alien   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10
    No Sleep Till Bedtime   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9
    SYL   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10
    No Sleep Till Bedtime (Live)   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 9
    City   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 9
    Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10
Having  been known for running his possess label Hevy  Devy  Records,  serving out with such acts of the Apostles  as Steve  Vai  and Front  Line  Assembly  and fronting deuce other bands (Infinity  and Ocean  Machine),  Strapping  Young  Lad  frontman Devin  Townsend  seems to keep himself busy with the rock & roll biography style. With  the subsequently existence his full-time gig since 1994, Strapping  Young  Lad  non only features Townsend  on vocals and guitar, simply besides with the complement of Jed  Simon  (guitar), bassist Byron  Stroud,  and Gene  Hoglan  on drums. After  a few gigs in their home al-Qaeda  of Vancouver,  Canada,  a demonstration surfaced immediately prehension the tending from Century  Media  Records  a class later. With  their 1995 debut of 
Heavy  as a Really  Heavy  Thing,  it understandably shows that just now because you play in a metallic element band, doesn't necessarily tight that you can't get a sentiency of humour. After  some 2 old age of touring with such acts of the Apostles  as Entombed,  Obituary,  Crowbar,  and Stuck  Mojo,  Strapping  Young  Lads'  irregular record album, 
Urban  center, came extinct in 1997, followed by level more touring crossways the ball and a stint on the Australian  continent -- the begin for any Century  Media  band. The  live EP  No  Sleep  'Till  Bedtime  documents their shows down under and was released in 1998.
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