[TimSE]

Very possibly the best album ever writen in my honest opinion.

Not so much as metal or chillout rock but just as music! its stunning how amazingly perfect it is. I bought it years ago and litrully hasnt left my CD player since i got it and is still there now

This album changed my life! Litrully!

Before i heard it i was an angry little shit who noone wanted anything to do with and only listened to the most insulting punishing death metal there was and didnt give a shit if it was as heavy as it gets.
A mate showed me Terria. Known SYL, i figured id give it a listen. "Devin is heavey as fuck!" I thought. Put it on and (iv no idea why) but the moment i realised its not going heavey i DIDNT turn it off.
Got to the end of the album in complete stunned shock. i didnt even know music like that was possible! and by the guy who writes SYL songs?!?!?!

Completly changed my way of thinking espesh towards music. basically tought me the value of melody.

Earth Day

Live


Stagnant


Deep Peace solo - not whole song amazing tune/solo still


The last 3 songs on the album are 1 song in my mind. there not, but i never ever listen to just one on its own. i cant help but have all 3

"Nobody's here" is the most chilled out dynamic and epic beyond epic thing ever EVER... just ... HOLY SHIT its great

then into "Tiny Tears". Beautiful, and almost seemingly a love/forgivness song. like the song before very ambience and hugly dynamic. great solo with many mood changes and takes u on a massive emotional journey. Amazing

and into "Stagnant" (above) which is the happy ending almost. much more upbeat and very likable with great melodies.

For me, this was one of those albums where over the years, at some point, every song has been my fav on the album. and everytime i listen to it i hear something new and beautifully amazing.
When someone asks the "if you stranded on a desert island with 3 cds. Which would you choose?" question i say "Devin Townsends Terria", you can keep the other 2

[distressed_romeo]

Basically, what he said...

I got 'Terria' on impulse about 6 years ago, just to see what the fuss about DT was, and it blew me away. It's an beautiful, intense, epic piece of music (it's one of the few albums where I'll happily listen to the whole thing in on go and then immediately hit the repeat button), but at the same time it has moments with a really innocent, child-like quality.

Plus, the guitar playing is some of Devin's best ever IMHO. Some of the solos are simply beautiful ('Stagnant' and 'Nobody's Here'), and the tones and orchestration on the rhythm parts all the way through are simply unsurpassed.

I was actually listening to 'Stagnant' on the way home today...it always lifts my mood a little at the end of a hard day.

[TimSE]

Originally Posted by distressed_romeo

Basically, what he said...

I got 'Terria' on impulse about 6 years ago, just to see what the fuss about DT was, and it blew me away. It's an beautiful, intense, epic piece of music (it's one of the few albums where I'll happily listen to the whole thing in on go and then immediately hit the repeat button), but at the same time it has moments with a really innocent, child-like quality.

Plus, the guitar playing is some of Devin's best ever IMHO. Some of the solos are simply beautiful ('Stagnant' and 'Nobody's Here'), and the tones and orchestration on the rhythm parts all the way through are simply unsurpassed.

I was actually listening to 'Stagnant' on the way home today...it always lifts my mood a little at the end of a hard day.

I got it in my car aswell
the vocal melodies get me everytime on everysong
so many layers and it all blends so well
perfection if there is such a thing

[Blood Tempest]

Anything Hevy Devy does musically is just jaw dropping amazing. I sure hope SYL puts out at least one more album. At any rate, I want a new Townsend album whether its DTB, SYL, or a solo album. I want new music from him in any form!

His production work is amazing too. The new Darkest Hour album is damn amazing.

[TimSE]

Originally Posted by Blood Tempest

Anything Hevy Devy does musically is just jaw dropping amazing. I sure hope SYL puts out at least one more album. At any rate, I want a new Townsend album whether its DTB, SYL, or a solo album. I want new music from him in any form!

His production work is amazing too. The new Darkest Hour album is damn amazing.

Indeed!
production wise hes my hero (as well as musically thinking about it )
but ya - his prodution methods are just to cleaver
all teh ambient samples and synths that u hardly ever notice that add to the sounds
Genious

[Mr. S]

i was listening to this at work today, absolutely love dev and all his work, i think this must have been the second album of his i brought, i just love eveything about itthe tone is sublime and it has his top notch production and playing... i think im going to put it on now actually

[Drew]

This is the disk that got me into Devin Townsend, and I still consider it one of the best prog metal albums I've ever heard.

I played a couple tracks for my (americana/roots-rock/pop-listening) roommate Elizabeth, who despite all of her aforementioned handicaps summed it up almost perfectly. Halfway through "The Mountain," she looked at me and said, "this isn't the kind of music you can listen passively to, is it." Not as a question so much as a statement. She's perfectly right - it's not something you listen to while you're playing video games or writing a paper or something like that, it's music you lose yourself in.

Tim, if you're not generally into not-heavy music but you dig this, and you're somehow not deeply familiar with Floyd's "The Wall" or anything by Porcupine Tree after (inclusive) In Absentia, get busy.

As an aside, this disc TOTALLY changed how I mixed music; the fact he goes for a thinner, brighter, sharper kick to compliment the bass while leaving space for the low tuned guitars, the millions of layers, the delay over everything... I pulled up an old mp3 playlist of mine once that I hadn't listened to in ages, a few years after buying this album, and a song came on while I was in the other room cooking. I remember thinking, "Hmm, I don't remember recording something that starts off this way..." before I realized it was "Canada."

[TimSE]

Originally Posted by Drew

This is the disk that got me into Devin Townsend, and I still consider it one of the best prog metal albums I've ever heard.

I played a couple tracks for my (americana/roots-rock/pop-listening) roommate Elizabeth, who despite all of her aforementioned handicaps summed it up almost perfectly. Halfway through "The Mountain," she looked at me and said, "this isn't the kind of music you can listen passively to, is it." Not as a question so much as a statement. She's perfectly right - it's not something you listen to while you're playing video games or writing a paper or something like that, it's music you lose yourself in.

Tim, if you're not generally into not-heavy music but you dig this, and you're somehow not deeply familiar with Floyd's "The Wall" or anything by Porcupine Tree after (inclusive) In Absentia, get busy.

As an aside, this disc TOTALLY changed how I mixed music; the fact he goes for a thinner, brighter, sharper kick to compliment the bass while leaving space for the low tuned guitars, the millions of layers, the delay over everything... I pulled up an old mp3 playlist of mine once that I hadn't listened to in ages, a few years after buying this album, and a song came on while I was in the other room cooking. I remember thinking, "Hmm, I don't remember recording something that starts off this way..." before I realized it was "Canada."

Ah man im well into the floyd and P-tree! It was this album that completly changed my life and opened up the whole Ambient chilled rock and well as the endless amounts of chillout in general music im obsessed with these days
Pink Floyd - P tree - Sigur Ros - Enigma - almost everything classical style - aqualung - D Gilmour - imogen heap - royksopp... the list is endless these days

going to see porcupine tree in october hopfully if i can afford it after the guitar i jsut bought and they dont sell-out before i get the money
i won some tickets to see them do an exclusive acoustic set once but the venue pulled out and it was cancelled which sucked huge dogballs

"this isn't the kind of music you can listen passively to, is it." spot on pretty much
nicely put too

[Leon]

Terria turned me on my head. definitely my most listened-to CD.

[Drew]

Kickass. Yeah, it's kind of an interesting "middle ground" album. I'm into a lot of that chiller stuff too, but what makes this one so intersting is that Devy manages to take some tranced out aspects and put them into what's still at the end of the day a seriously heavy album, and create the sort of textural masterpiece where you just lose yourself in something that's so deep you sometimes miss just how skullcrushing it can be.