“I ended up thinking I knew it all, and it was my responsibility to tell everybody what they were doing wrong”: How close did Devin Townsend come to forming a cult in 1998?

Devin Townsend.

In 1998, Devin Townsend released Infinity, his first album under his own name. The record refined his immense yet melodic prog and became one of his most celebrated releases. It also pulled the polymath back from a crisis of ego that had put him in hospital. Three decades on, Townsend gives Prog a list of what he learned during that tumultuous time.

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