Devin Townsend's music is designed to have a polarising effect on the listener,
with some regarding it highly while others dismiss as noise; the more hardcore
side of Townsend's compositions are not written with a view to being accessible
easy listening. The enigmatic Canadian producer, singer-songwriter and guitarist
born in New Westminster (British Columbia), on May 5, 1972, has a
well-publicised bipolar disorder which Townsend himself has identified as the
reason for the remarkably different musical styles which appear across the broad
spectrum of projects with which he is inv...