Devin Townsend

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating

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Last 12 Months Rating

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Real Live Certified

Critic Consensus

Devin Townsend is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 117 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Devin Townsend is rated as an excellent live performer, with noteworthy shows that are worth seeing. Devin Townsend concert reviews describe live shows and performances as masterful, theatrical, stunning, groovy, ambient, and emotional.

ON TOUR

De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands (Mar 27); SPOT/De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands (Mar 28); Marathon Music Works, Nashville, TN, United States (May 2); House of Blues Orlando, Lake Buena Vista, FL, United States (May 4); Bogart's, Cincinnati, OH, United States (May 6); The Ritz, Raleigh, NC, United States (May 7); The Filmore Silver Spring, Silver Spring, United States (May 10); House of Blues, Boston, United States (May 11); MTELUS, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (May 13); Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, Canada (May 14); The Rave / Eagles Club, Milwaukee, United States (May 15); Masonic Cathedral Theatre, Detroit, United States (May 16); Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO, United States (May 21); The Wiltern, Los Angeles, United States (May 23)

FESTIVALS IN 2025

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Latest Release

PowerNerd [Explicit] (25 October 2024)

Artist Info

Genre

metal

Origin

New Westminster, Canada (5/5/1972)

Bio

Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian musician and record producer from New Westminster, British Columbia.

Has Performed With

Meshuggah, Devin Townsend Project

Critic Concert Reviews

The Music (Australia)

November 11, 2023

For the next 90 minutes plus, Devin Townsend holds the sold-out Forum crowd breathless and spellbound for the duration of the set.

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Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

September 19, 2023

Devin Townsend Live In Concert At ArcTanGent 2023

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Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

April 29, 2023

We Shall Begin Things With A Little Catch-Up, Incase Anyone Was Living In Some Kind Of Paradox Of Our Music World. The Last Time The Humble Enigma Machine Devin Townsend Played In Our Neck Of The Woods Was At The Manchester Academy 2 In 2021.

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Reflections of Darkness (Germany)

May 19, 2022

On Sunday, there was a concert coming up that numerous metal fans had been looking forward to for quite some time: After their show in 2016 Prog-icons DREAM THEATER returned to Luxembourg as part of their "Top of the World" tour, and they didn’t come alone.

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Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

April 25, 2022

100

How do you sum up one of, if not the most storied career in progressive metal? The genre's resident mad scientist, DEVIN TOWNSEND, has spent the past thirty years breaking down, rebuilding and redefining progressive music.

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Backseat Mafia

April 16, 2022

Next on the set list were Aftermath (Strapping Young Lad) / Deadhead (The Devin Townsend Band) / Deep Peace were Devin calls himself an emotional banana. After these there songs his band member's left the stage leave only Devin armed with an acoustic guitar to do an acoustic version of Ih-Ah!

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Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

August 24, 2021

100

When festival season was wiped out last year thanks to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, for us music fans, it felt a hammerblow with our summer being quiet and solitary away from the buzz of a packed crown or the roar of amplified noise on an outdoor stage.

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