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Devin Townsend - Terria
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Release date: 6 November 2001
Style: Industrial progressive metal

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Line-up
Devin Garret Townsend - Guitar, Vocals, Ambience, Samples and Keyboards
Eugene Victor "Gene" Hoglan II - Drums
Craig McFarland - Fretless Bass
Jamie Meyer - Piano, Keyboards

Additional info
Limited Edition housed in a digipak with 28 page colour booklet. CD has a bonus track and is enhanced, containing live video footage from Devin's Japanese tour of 1999 and an audio commentary about the new album. (released in 2003)

Guest review by
Spyroid
Rating:
9.0
The Devin Townsend Band sure aren't easy to get into, but for some reason I was cool enough to love this album from the first spin. If you like experimental music you will probably appreciate 'Terria'. This album has everything I want an album to have, on every point that matters to me.

On originality and experimentation; The Devin Townsend Band is of course more or less the work of one man, and that guy is a genious - even his haircut is a proof for that! This album is as unique as a snowflake, with a soundscape and style that you can only find on the other works of this man. The songs are all based in metal but there is so much more, so many details that you will be blown away by. Many of the tracks could be called "atmospheric metal", but that won't be enough to describe how it sounds. The expression 'wall of sound' is common when people talk about this band, and I think of a distorted orchestra playing on maximum volume in the middle of a great city. There are of course also great contrasts to this with a lot of calm parts that have nothing to do with metal.

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published 07.07.2008 | Comments (6)

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18.07.2012 - 15:34
Rating: 10
musicalkaratekid
Stunning album, and one of DT's best.
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20.03.2013 - 17:04
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
By far Townsend best album outside of Strapping Young Lad. Not a single of his other albums comes close.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

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20.03.2013 - 22:28
Darkside Momo
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 20.03.2013 at 17:04

By far Townsend best album outside of Strapping Young Lad. Not a single of his other albums comes close.

You must be kidding! While excellent, Terria pales in comparison with Ocean Machine (and maybe Infinity too)
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"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" - Ray Bradbury

"I've lost too many years now
I'm stealing back my soul
I'm awake now"
Abney Park (Letter Between A Little Boy & Himself As An Adult)
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20.03.2013 - 22:53
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Written by Darkside Momo on 20.03.2013 at 22:28

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 20.03.2013 at 17:04

By far Townsend best album outside of Strapping Young Lad. Not a single of his other albums comes close.

You must be kidding! While excellent, Terria pales in comparison with Ocean Machine (and maybe Infinity too)

And maybe Accelerated Evolution and Ziltoid.
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20.03.2013 - 23:35
Darkside Momo
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Written by Guest on 20.03.2013 at 22:53

Written by Darkside Momo on 20.03.2013 at 22:28

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 20.03.2013 at 17:04

By far Townsend best album outside of Strapping Young Lad. Not a single of his other albums comes close.

You must be kidding! While excellent, Terria pales in comparison with Ocean Machine (and maybe Infinity too)

And maybe Accelerated Evolution and Ziltoid.

Hum... not for me even if I like Ziltoid a lot (with a cup of coffee of course)
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"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" - Ray Bradbury

"I've lost too many years now
I'm stealing back my soul
I'm awake now"
Abney Park (Letter Between A Little Boy & Himself As An Adult)
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20.03.2013 - 23:39
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Written by Darkside Momo on 20.03.2013 at 23:35

Hum... not for me even if I like Ziltoid a lot (with a cup of coffee of course)

Probably just for me, then.
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21.03.2013 - 12:28
Rating: 10
Starchild
As a big Devin's fan my list would be: 1. Ocean Machine 2. Terria 3. Accelerated Evolution, but all this 3 albums are in my top 10 of all time so...
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21.03.2013 - 13:44
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Darkside Momo on 20.03.2013 at 22:28


You must be kidding! While excellent, Terria pales in comparison with Ocean Machine (and maybe Infinity too)


Nope, even though Ocean Machine is quite good it doesn't come close to Terria, and Infinity not even close to those twp.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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15.01.2014 - 09:21
Rating: 10
Lord Dimitriy
Magnificent album! Guys, you shouldn't compare all Devin's albums. They are totally different and Devin always tries to perform some new ideas on each album.
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