Devin Townsend has come a long way since he emptied his bowels inside Steve Vai’s guitar case. Back then, in the early 90s, Devin was barely out of his teens and had just scored his big break singing on Vai’s album Sex And Religion. But as a guitar player himself, he felt overawed in the presence of the virtuoso - and expressed his feelings in the worst way imaginable.
What’s amazing is that he and Vai have remained good friends in all the years since then. And as Devin says now, that ghastly prank was really a backhanded compliment. “I was fortunate enough to work with Steve early on and realised he was so much better than, the Canadian prog metal mastermind delivers another thrillingly eclectic collection of songs that force the listener to engage as a direct consequence of their leftfield creative detours. You’re never quite sure where this rollercoaster of noise will take you. And this, Devin says, can be attributed to doing the most obvious thing any musician can - something we’re all guilty of forgetting after many years of practice...
