Throughout a latest gig down in Brisbane, Australia, excessive steel and tremendous chill dude Devin Townsend handled followers to a particular efficiency of a traditional Strapping Younger Lad tune. And whereas the track in query, “Detox,” is a busy ball of vitality encapsulated in a track, what the followers obtained this previous Sunday was considerably extra drawn again and melodic.

Townsend’s been touring Down Below in assist of his newest album Lightwork. If you understand that album, then you understand he’s going for a extra subdued, acoustic sound with these reveals. So the truth that he broke out not one Strapping Younger Lad track, however three throughout the set on Saturday, November 11 needed to have been a shock for attendees. Apart from the aforementioned monitor from 1997’s Metropolis, he additionally carried out “Aftermath” from the 2003 self-titled album, “Nearly Once more” off of the 2006 album The New Black, and “Love?” off of SYL’s 2005 banger Alien.

Along with his Strapping Younger Lad renditions, Townsend additionally carried out some Ziltoid and the Devin Townsend Venture.

Any likelihood we get to listen to Strapping Younger Lad songs — whilst fairly acoustic variations — is a particular deal with, since Townsend has tried to distance himself a bit from that point in his life. Late final yr, the madcap musician mentioned the band simply wasn’t “a part of my life” anymore.

“Strapping is a big a part of my life — was an enormous a part of my life — and I like all these guys and I nonetheless speak to them. Nevertheless, the character of what I did made it such that the teachings that I wanted to be taught from that interval of my life had been mirrored within the content material. And now it’s not part of my life in a manner that I can relate to, and extra so it’s not part of my life in a manner that I’ve any need to return to.”

So with all that in thoughts, sit again and calm down as Devy serenades you with a steel traditional.