LOVE IS A B***H! Ex Metal Elitist Reacts to Devin Townsend "Deadhead" 

Devin telling the crowd to pick a clapping tempo, always make me chuckle. He is such a funny dude

From this very same concert, Death of Music is amazing too. You can see Devin get goosebumps from his own singing

Devin is so talented that words are being not found. Thanks Cosmic for that piece, it is showing his talent!

Devin has such a mastery of the "wall of sound", especially in this performance. The sound just washes over your entire body.

One of the most heartwrenching and sonically perfect songs ever created

7:49 The greatest note in ever sung in musical history.

What is always astounding to me about this performance is that Devin was still getting over being ill at the time and in fact made a couple jokes about that during the concert. How dare you sing that well while sick, Devin!!! Please check out more of his songs!!!!! So many reactors do just Kingdom and Deadhead and then stop but he has so many amazing tracks- Bastard, Grace, Failure, Heaven Send, Stormbending, Death Of Music...the list goes on and on.

Why have I not listened to him before this channel. That was fantastic! Besides the music, I just love his stage presence. Hermit in the woods? Best way to be. Love my freedom, and the critters that surround me.

Thank you, my friend. Please find the time for more Devin. He has hundreds of songs recorded and released. For RU-vid, the live performances are the best. There will be music you hold dear for the rest of your life - and some songs that aren't for you. Actively putting out music for 4 decades. He is also one of the kindest human beings on the planet, which makes his music even more special to me. Cheers!!

This is the first DT tune I was introduced to, and I damn near soiled myself while crying at the same time. Your reaction was priceless. I was hooked and have been ever since.

This was a 2hr by request section that was after the main 2hr theatrical show. If you get a chance to purchase the Blu-ray, do it, it's EPIC !!

6.66k subscribers ? Just for a moment, and then it's gone. Like noticing your odometer is giving you the bat's hello ( 01134 ). oh well yeah, Devin... damn, what a mind. He is an absolute genius with reverb and repeats; the poetry of what is said and what is left between the lines. And his tuning (open C) makes for some sonic layering that is hard to do with a more 'normal' tuning. But that is just a technical tidbit, a trinket, a petty observation on my part. I love that you used the word 'atmosphere'. The man knows how to let the music breathe, which is often slow and languorous. For me, it allows my pedestrian brain the time to absorb his lyrics during the song... you don't have to reflect on a Devin Townsend song. He gives the listener enough time and space to experience it fully as it's being played. ... I think that's a thing. Maybe not? ... could be wrong, often am, often am.

I absolutely love the intensity of this performance. Glad you got to it! No need to apologize for the tangents! One of the joys of watching reaction videos is that we get to hear what our favorite music brings out of people. Everyone gleans something unique from their lives, and sharing in those things is a blessing. If we don't like it, we can always skip ahead. And I can relate on the hermit front. The world is going through a lot of rapid change right now, and I think people are more stressed than they sometimes realize. I've found some solace in garden design as well. Though I only have an apartment balcony to work with at the moment, I've been studying up on ecological gardening. Permaculture and the like. To anyone considering it, let this be a gentle nudge to give plants a shot. Helping some little plant friends to sprout can bring more love into a numb heart than you may expect. Just be forgiving with yourself. Mistakes will happen. This is a great community. Keep preaching the love, Cosmic. We appreciate you.

Devin is one of the greatest vocalists. Period!

Devin is featured in some of Ayreon's songs as well - check out the album The Human Equation for more!

Devin Townsend is an absolute legend.

My fav recording of my absolute fav Devy song. So so so good

This guy is just next level

Glad you liked the song! you hit the nail on the head with the sound. You can just feel the emotion/energy from the song and his singing.

You need to check out Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope (Live in Colorado 2016). It is unreal how incredibly talented the band is, and how complicated the composition is.

this one makes you sit & listen...take care!

Welcome to the amazing world of Devin Townsend try strapping young lad . That will blow your mind . Or the track why . Devin is a musical genius should be in the hall.of fame .

Have a listen to the other songs he did on EMG TV around the same time as he did Kingdom. They are all great and yet they hardly seem to get a showing .. they're all here on YT.

the very definition of wall of sound!

I bought this album when it came out, and I immediately gravitated to this song. I knew it was amazing. So it's wild for me to see people reacting to this way 20 years later. It's nice to get that affirmation that you were right to recognize it for being great.

Devin is one on his own.. Off the back of his own solo efforts he originally found his feet on the main stage with Steve Vai back in 1993, fronting the band for Vai's album "Sex & Religion" ("Deep Down Into the Pain" can be found out there.. the first song promotion from the album), follow up to the acclaimed "Passion & Warfare". Post Vai he emerged with what I'd define as some form of dark industrial metal with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, an outfit I strongly recommend - you might begin with material from the first two albums "Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing" and "City" ("Detox" from the latter album is I feel a particular cult classic of this period). STRAPPING comprised himself, guitarist Jed Simon, bassist Byron Stroud and "atomic clock" drummer Gene Hoglan. They continued for another twelve years or so with some overlap to Devin's solo work, which would initially feature the members of STRAPPING before he broadened to bring new musicians into the fold. From there a couple of incarnations have appeared working his material forwards.. This band here is one of the longer lasting incarnations to date, but he's moved on since that. He's something of a chameleon in his creative moods and you get broad strokes with his brush from the most delicate to the most vicious, but has a very definite and undeniable style. Nice guy.

These Dev reaction vids made me subscribe as I've been catching up on the backlog. So excited to see Bastard soon!

Literally, ANY TooL song would be cool to get your insight on.

You hit it on the head when you talked about the atmosphere of sound. Devin is one of the greatest musicians in the world. Check out the song "Grace". His albums cross and bend genres in beautiful ways. Both albums "Empath" and his newest release are freaking fantastic auditory journeys

Im so glad to see someone finding Dev for pretty much the first time. If you're going into the Devin rabbit hole, I would suggest the Ocean Machine album livestream he did a couple years ago. He did livestreams during the pandemic. The Ocean Machine stream is probably my fave. Bring up the lyrics to Funeral before you do this. So you'll understand what happens. He wrote it about one of his friend's brother who passed away. He has lots of heavy stuff but he's mellowed out a lot. But the new stuff is a natural progression to his stuff and it's wonderful too! 🤘💀🕉☸️☯️☮️

Friend, you are quickly climbing your way up my long long list of favorite reactors for so many reasons. In a nutshell, you're real. Love the reactions. If it means anything, my favorite Band is Primus and I'd HIGHLY recommend my fav song by them called Groundhogs day

Great reaction.. awesome that you noticed how he lets the music breathe. A sign of a true artist which Devin personifies

Yep, I told you! I absolutely love this song too, man! It's an incredible piece of art. I even showed this to my stepfather, who is stuck on pop music 30-40 years back. And his mind was blown away. But I'm not surprised :D Devin is such a great package! Amazing guitar player, singer, composer, character and soul! And he can deliver the message and the emotion as well. Very few can do that...

on one of his online streams in this song, he almost reached the ultrasound 😁 so here you hear far from everything that he is capable of vocally. This man is really an alien, I never believed in them, but listening to Devin, I begin to believe 😆 actually quite a heavy song, I didn’t understand it right away, but now I like it. Devin has a lot of straight hit stuff, but there is also a lot of such doom and psychedelic stuff. Another psychedelic thing is the song “the death of music”, where he made probably the longest live scream

Saw this guy a few days ago at arctangent festival really good live

Really liked this reaction. All the best to You in your life

As a friend of mine, who is also a trained musician once said when I showed this song to him, "It's heavy, but it's literally one of the best sonic experiences I've had in my 30+ year career." When i first heard this song it was stuck on repeat for weeks! Bastard is also a really nice song from this same concert, it has a really neat riff and compositional structure. Thanks for the reaction, I think you echoed the way I felt when I first saw it because I too was going through a period of divorce from my first wife/serious relationship, it was nice that you shared that and yes I agree the dating world is a mess.

Devin Townsend’s wall of sound. The Ziltoid live concert is great as is the album. I personally love the Trancendence and Empath albums.

Devin is one of a kind! I saw Strapping ages ago but didn’t really get to see the show, just hear it as I was backstage with friends at the time and I was always sad about that, but in June I just saw him on tour with Animals as Leaders and Dream Theater…what a freaking show!!

Devin has produced an army of sick albums for other bands. I'd pick one out of a hat for a reaction one day

Big Yeeessssss!

I feel ya sir. Always said I'd never get married. Got married at in my early 30's, divorced a few years later, now navigating the dating world as a 36 year old. Its just... not functional. Solitude is always golden, but companionship is wanted sometimes. Hard to tell what you really want and feel because the dating world is so INSANELY different from 15 years ago. To quote Devin, "It's all in the heat of the moment; it's all in the pain." You want it, but you know it'll hurt. What to do?

Thank you so much for these reactions! Can't wait to listen to more Devin with you here. As others have said, there's little that Devin Townsend HASN'T done over the years. He's incredibly versatile, yet everything he creates shares his beautiful, powerful, and very personal sound. I found this live performance of Deadhead on RU-vid a few years ago and it led me to jump down the rabbithole and become a huge fan of his. I truly feel like I listen to music differently since discovering him. There's just something about what he does musically that tickles my brain in just the right way - like it's exactly what I need to hear. There are so many of his live videos to be found here, but if you want to check out another one from this same concert, you gotta hear Bastard Live at Royal Albert Hall. It's another droney, somber, powerful one that blows me away every single time. Thanks again and I'll see you back here! :)

Same. Im a hermit and totally ok with it too.

I totally understand everything you said my man.

Everything he does is pure-hearted. Wish I would get to see him.

Devin plays the intro and solo..Barelly much more. Look at him on the platform? He raised hands and sound didn't change for a bit.

my favorite part of this video is how Devin calls for the crowds' attention before the mic was on. but even though the mic wasn't on for his first exclamation, the crowd still reacted hard. If he interests you at all, search out everything you can find. DT, SYL, DTP = GOAT

Awesome reaction again man, you're a great guy to watch, and yeh man what a fkin song! Gonna see what else you got in the channel, keep em going! Get some Alice Cooper maybe hehe

Songs like this do make you think hey? I've given up on the idea of "dating" as a way of meeting someone special. If I don't get to know someone through interests and hobbies etc, then like you, I'm quite content to live my life without a partner. There is so much to live for and I think I value friendships far more than I ever did in the past. Big love to you Wolff :)

Deadhead is just such a powerful track and one of my favourites, live it was out of this world and brough a massive smile to my face. I think Devin is in a very small very elite group who can walk the walk and talk the talk with no BS. For me others are Ayreon, Nightwish, Dream Theater, Tool/Puscifer/A Perfect Circle, there are others who are fantastic but they are still younsters compared to these bands and artists. Big Love Cosmic

It's impossible; I cannot listen to this song without getting goosebumps by Devin's vocals and wall of sound. I have to agree with Devin, though: love is a bitch (married twice, current marriage 11+ years) lol

Have you checked out anything from Alter Bridge before? Myles Kennedy has some amazing vocal performances as well.

Heyy, please tell me you know Crowbar. If not, what are you waiting for! (90's era recommended - ...And Suffer As One)

Of course he’s a nice guy, he’s 🇨🇦

Great song, very nice content ! Suscribed ;)

To further blow your mind on this.... Devin was recovering from the flu during this performance.

Sounds like a watered-down Swallow The Sun style song.

Might give this a try, this ones thiiiiiick. Most recommend the MV, but think this ones "thicker". Devin Townsend Project - Love (The Retinal Circus Live) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WpU8LYo7LMg.html

Being a hermit in the woods, just listening to music and vibing with my cats? Bro, add a dog and those words could be mine! Sure, it would be nice to meet a woman who's like a soulmate and all that and i guess she may exist somewhere but idk, if it happens it happens, if it doesn't i'm pretty fine being single. And yeah dating these days is just f*ck no, seems more like some kind of business deals than anything else. Yuck. Anyway, idk what this song did to me..., i was just completely in the zone there and then it was over way too quickly..., tons and tons of atmosphere for sure.

Its not a cult? Ive benn misled.