It’s not hard to see why virtuoso shredder Steve Vai plucked a 20-year-old Devin Townsend from obscurity and employed him as lead vocalist on his Sex & Religion album in 1993.
With a multi-octave range and enough personality to sink a ship, the young Canadian was plainly a prodigious talent. But even the benevolent Mr Vai could not have foreseen the extraordinary musical career that would unfold.
