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Devin Townsend - Physicist



7.6 | 227 votes |
Release date: 26 June 2000
Style: Industrial progressive metal

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01. Namaste
02. Victim
03. Material
04. Kingdom
05. Death
06. Devoid
07. The Complex
08. Irish Maiden
09. Jupiter
10. Planet Rain
11. Forgotten [hidden track]
12. Man [Japanese bonus]
13. Ocean Machines [Japanese bonus]
14. Promise [Japanese bonus]

Featured In "Getting Into: Devin Townsend: Part II: The 2000s"

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Produced by Devin Townsend.

Guest review by
DelightfulJim
Rating:
5.3
As a Hevy Devy fan, you would expect this album to leave me spasmodically writhing in a corner drenched in my own saliva. But this is very simply not the case, for this album is definitely one of the weaker albums Devin Townsend has crafted over his long, prolific career.

The main problem with the album is its sheer inconsistency. Physicist has a very strong start with probably my favourite opening track "Namaste", providing the listener with almost 4 minutes of sheer madness. Speedy double bass drumming, alarmingly frantic screaming in the same Devin flavour, you know the story. A very solid opener. This is followed by another two well constructed, catchy tracks: "Victim", and "Material", which is probably one of the best sing-along songs Devin Townsend has written since the early years of his solo career.

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published 09.02.2012 | Comments (1)

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22.01.2012 - 22:40
Rating: 8
musicalkaratekid

Underrated, but for reasons as well. Most of the songs are pretty short, save 'Kingdom' and the last two tracks, and i would have liked the album to be slightly longer. Then again, they are deeply influenced by SYL's industrial-meets-thrash-meets-madness movement. A good album, even if it does get a little boring at times.
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27.11.2015 - 23:43
Rating: 7
Doge of Venice

Planet Rain is ridiculously good.
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22.11.2019 - 17:15
HyperDrifter

It's not a bad album and features one of his best songs "Kingdom", far from Devin's best though and the production lets it down.
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22.11.2019 - 20:34
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Never really got into the whole world of Townsend but "Kingdom" is in fact a fantastic song, one that still gets regular play time on various playlists of mine.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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11.05.2020 - 14:34
SchrödingersCat

Written by Troy Killjoy on 22.11.2019 at 20:34

Never really got into the whole world of Townsend but "Kingdom" is in fact a fantastic song, one that still gets regular play time on various playlists of mine.


One of his other albums - Epicloud - contains re-recorded version of the song, since Devin himself considered the album, song and production to be somewhat lacking in quality.

Epicloud's version is thus seen as the ultimate version of 'Kingdom'.
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12.05.2020 - 02:45
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by SchrödingersCat on 11.05.2020 at 14:34

Epicloud's version is thus seen as the ultimate version of 'Kingdom'.

Thanks for the tip, my friend. I'll be sure to check it out asap
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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