Devin Townsend live in concert.
ON TOUR

Devin Townsend

117
critic concert reviews
metal

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

86
%
Based on 
117
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
84
%
Based on 
4
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

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

Galvanizers SWG3, Glasgow, United Kingdom (November 25); Great Hall Cardiff University Students Union, Cardiff, United Kingdom (December 2); O2 Forum Kentish Town, London, United Kingdom (December 3); De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands (March 27); SPOT/De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands (March 28)

FESTIVALS IN 2024

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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.

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

September 19, 2023
90
%
Devin Townsend Live In Concert At ArcTanGent 2023

Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

April 29, 2023
90
%
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.

Reflections of Darkness (Germany)

May 19, 2022
73
%
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.

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.

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!

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.

Past critic reviews published in

Westword (USA), KEXP (USA), The Snipe News (Canada), The Know (Denver Post) (USA), Abort Magazine (Canada) and more

Image Credit

Robban Kanto [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons