“I was fired after two months because I was playing guitar with a dildo and being an idiot”: The wild life and crazed career of Devin Townsend, metal’s misunderstood maverick

Devin Townsend posing for a photograph in 2012.

Devin Townsend is a one-off, a genuine musical maverick who has blazed his own trail for more than 30 years. In 2012, the Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist looked back over a career that has taken in incredible highs, tortuous lows and defecating in a guitar hero’s instrument case.

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