★★★★★
Devin Townsend's The Retinal Circus is without doubt the strangest concert DVD I have ever seen. It's also one of the best. Immediately after my first viewing I actually went back to re-watch parts of it. Between the amazing production value, the collection of songs spanning Townsend's entire career and the visual imagery of all the fantastic nonsense happening on the stage The Retinal Circus truly is a masterpiece in every sense of the word...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2013-12-13
★★★★★
This live set (on 2 DVDs and 2 CDs) presents music from Townsend's back catalog so maybe you've heard it before but you have never seen it like this before. What Townsend has done is write a new narrative, about a young man named Harold who takes a "musical journey into the collective unconsciousness," that sort of pieces together excerpts from various albums including cuts from Epicloud, Deconstruction, Synchestra and Ziltoid the Omniscient. So musically, a typical show...
- www.antimusic.com
2013-12-05
★★★★★
As the foremost authority on eccentrically experimental progressive metal (among a host of other subgenres), Canadian virtuoso Devin Townsend is revered as much for his bold, zany ideas as for his incredible musicianship and diversity. Having crafted such off-the-wall concept albums as Ziltoid the Omniscient (about an alien puppet determined to conquer earth for coffee) and Deconstruction (about a man whose quest to understand the meaning of life leads him to Hell, the devil, and...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-30
★★★★★
There's little reason to say anything about the soundtrack to Devin Townsend's The Retinal Circus, excepting maybe to explain the event. However, I suspect that if you're a Townsend fan, you probably know more than I do about this project and have already ordered your Blue-Ray DVD. Devin Townsend: presents band. Which is what everybody should do, and what I should be talking about in this review (seriously bummed), and so there's no need for a score...
- www.dangerdog.com
2013-10-18
★★★★★
Sound: This album is the second release from Townsend since he gained a distaste for touring and self promotion thus putting a Strapping Young Lad and The Devin Townsend Band on a seemingly indefinate hiatus. Due in part to this new attitude the record was entirely written, produced, and preformed by Devin without the aid of any additional band members...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: When I First heard of Devin Townsend, he was singing for Steve Vai, Then Ultimately his Strapping Young Lad project. After The Album City Came out in 1997, Devin went on with his first Solo Release Ocean Machine: Biomech. He Innovation on the music was this, simple yet complex songs that are added on deeper emotion with the sounds of Keyboards, ambiance, and power vocals. Infinity is a different sounding record...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Sound: 2000 was a year that reinvented the music scene and the way of living. Many albums came out that became smash hits and had #1 Singles and had mega radio and video play, but of course there are albums that are so good and so bad they slip under the radar, and Devin Townsend's Physicist is no exception. As Devin's 3rd Solo album, Physicist has quite a story to it...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Sound: Devin Townsend albums are notorious for their aggressive power, extreme emotion, deep intricate metaphors and timeless beautiful songs. I've found that of the three Devin Townsend albums I own (I also own 'Accelerated Evolution' and 'Biomech') Terria is truly a triumph for him. Listening to songs like 'Earth Day' and 'Canada' let you truly feel what he felt when writing the songs, and experience what mental images and messages he wanted to put across...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
If there is one word that's overused in the entertainment industry, it's "genius." You can be great at what you do (maybe even the best), but that doesn't qualify. No, a true genius is someone who creates in their own universe; they derive ideas and techniques never heard or seen before. They invent an entirely new way to hear music, are often eccentric, and those lucky enough to understand what they're doing are changed forever...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
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