I bought this album when it came out cause the dude at the record shop told me it was the heaviest shit he’d heard in ages. I was in my Korn/Deftones stage and thought I was heavy as fuck. It also came with a free ticket to their gig which was the next week. Took a chance, bought it then went to the gig. I shit my pants. Dev was the most insane frontman I’d ever seen. Still have the ticket... never been the same since that night...
It seems like everything related to Devin Townsend blew up in popularity when that EMG Kingdom thing happened. He went from relatively obscure to one of the most famous prog metal people in existence
i found this band last night. i am still fucking blown away at how i’ve never heard of them before. like wtf how are they not as big like Lamb of God or something. these guys are fucking brutal
I really like that Gene plays so much triplets in this song, like triplet-fills as well as fast triplet double bass parts. This gives that song a very unique and heavy style!
I really love the fucking part at 3:17 so fucking awesome, when they played it live they did a synchronized headbang thing and it looked so awesome and the fucking flute thing in the background is so chill. Devin is just a fucking master mind.
@@richharris9489 It was kind of an awakening for me when I put the cd the first time in the player of my friends new hifi system with a pair of self built six foot high speakers and listened in 1997 to this song, volume up to marking. At least we did not listen, we were blown away by the pure energy which threw us literally directly against the wall of his room. Never again experienced something like this in my life.
It doesn't really get more insanely intense than "City". An album that made Fear Factory sound like a mildly convincing pop band to my teen ears. Seeing the band live back then was a shockingly crushing experience that set a bar no band really managed to match ever since.
@@jaytan6123 Bought it the second it was released just because Metal Hammer review stated it's more intense than FF and it surely was. For some time that CD wast stuck in player for a few weeks - no chance for anything else.
Back around 2004, some random dude walked up to me at Best Buy (this was back when they still had a robust music department), and he asked me "Dude, were is all the good metal?" I had long hair at the time, so I guess he assumed I was an expert. I was there for the new Nightwish and told him to check them out, but as he went into the music he was into (basically metalcore), I quickly took the Nightwish CD out of his hand and said, "You don't want this. Have you heard of Strapping Young Lad?" He said no, so I took him over to one of the listening stations they had (pretty sure it was an early version of Rhapsody), and pulled this song up for him. He seemed pretty bewildered, but walked away to buy a SYL CD.
The first 40 seconds of this song blows my mind every time. Every piece fits perfectly after the last. That simple riff at the beginning foreshadows the descent into chaos that follows immediately afterwards, then it all somehow coalesces into that amazing scream, then boom straight back down into chaos. Unreal.
This is my ultimate calming down song. I listen to it, headbang, squeel/scream along and then by the end I am at peace once more (and have lost my voice).
I loved Vai's Sex and Religion album, so when I saw an ad in Metal Sludge for City, I sent out a Fax to request a copy of City. Chipster PR hooked me up with a promo copy. I''ll never forget listening to this on headphones at work. Although I wasn't a fan of really heavy stuff at the time, this was a musical revelation for me - the glanging of Velvet Kevorkian into All Hail the New Flesh..... and Boom, it suddenly all made sense.. City was my favorite album of 1997 (high praise considering my all-time favorite band Cheap Trick also released its brilliant self titled 1997 album that same year). All Hail the New Flesh became my personal theme song, and I've been a Devin Townsend fan ever since.,
I ended up here 12 years after first hearing it on a pretty rock bottom night - shit will bring you back to life and get your head straight in an incredible way.
In a guitar clinic Devin did, he mentioned that one of his earliest vocal coaches told him that the way he's singing will kill his voice soon. And here he is 20 years later, still doing it.
@@neeltheother2342 It was killing his voice you could hear that he fucked his high register for a period around 2005-2006 very noticeable with some live performances of 'Love?'
All Hail The New Flesh is quite possibly the only metal song you'll need to hear before you die, it's THAT good. After 15 years since I first heard it I'm still trying to become The New Flesh Devin was talking about
His first album is a beast although Devin don't like it. But when he formed a band and released City... that changed everything, what a goddamn beautiful album.
Mine too. I was going to write some fucking overstated, unnecessarily verbose comment about just how much, but, yeah. The impact was fucken real, man. If you felt it, you know, and that's it. Thanks Dev.
As a teenager, prior to Slipknot’s debut album, this song was the most perfectly composed and brutal I’d ever heard. There is not a single movement of this song that isn’t perfect.
The end sounds like ".......a whole body of water will swell upon Earth" - So maybe it's a quote from The Holy Bible and Noah's ark? It makes sense, what do you think of it? OR the actual song title itself, "All hail the new flesh," is a direct quote from a film from the 80s called "Videodrome," starring James Woods and Debbie Harris (aka, 'Blondie,' the frontwoman from Blondie). Maybe it’s quote from that movie? Who can help?
I think I've got it. I thought the start sounded like "Portentous earthquakes and floods", and looking around online for that phrase turned up a translation of Timaeus, one of Plato's dialogues, where he was talking about Atlantis. Seems like they included a sample of someone reading it aloud. Full quote, with the relevant section in brackets, is "But at a later time there occurred [portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth,] and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled down."
Maddbox11235 Man, thanks so much for the clarification! I always loved that part in the song, it‘s so epic and as a non-native english speaker I always wondered what the spoken voice exactly said. Thanks a lot!
@@DustyDigits If it helps your search, that's not the standard translation. It's been like a year, but I remember when I looked that up, there was one translation of Timaeus that was everywhere and did not contain that specific wording, and another translation that only popped up a few times that did contain that specific wording. The joys of trying to translate poetry, I suppose. Decisions must be made to balance literal meaning, metaphorical meaning, and poetic meter.
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I bought this album when it came out cause the dude at the record shop told me it was the heaviest shit he’d heard in ages. I was in my Korn/Deftones stage and thought I was heavy as fuck. It also came with a free ticket to their gig which was the next week. Took a chance, bought it then went to the gig. I shit my pants. Dev was the most insane frontman I’d ever seen. Still have the ticket... never been the same since that night...
I met him 20 years ago and still can't get enough of this album
Shows like that are awesome. Somebody brought me to a Gwar show without telling me anything beforehand lol.
This has aged substantially better than most metal from that era
there is something uplifting about this song. a classic of the genre. period
Open C is a beautiful tuning, for something so brutal as this.
I love the fact that one the greatest metal songs ever written is so obscure, makes it even more special
Agreed.
You are CORRECT
@Ivory_ Lagiacrus_YT it still kinda was in 2017 when I wrote my original comment, lol. it had about 50 thousand views here
It seems like everything related to Devin Townsend blew up in popularity when that EMG Kingdom thing happened. He went from relatively obscure to one of the most famous prog metal people in existence
@@lred1383 I, I wonder... why...
With a name like "All Hail the New Flesh", you knows it's gonna be metal as fuck.
Ironicaly one of the most uplifting metal song of all time
so true. one of the heaviest, angriest but somehow uplifting metal songs
SYL is is most the
underrated band of the 90's.
No. Scratch that. Most underrated modern band, period.
King's X is the most underrated band ever.
@Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls City, Puppets, IV.
of all time.
2 decades ahead of their time? (at least)
@@NoBody-bn1kr you never heard Botch then lool
i found this band last night. i am still fucking blown away at how i’ve never heard of them before. like wtf how are they not as big like Lamb of God or something. these guys are fucking brutal
One of the most Metal songs ever written.
I'd give this song 9.5/10. Wonga!
yes for sure, live this is AMAZING!!!
@@3cs3hs can concur. Saw these guys three times. More metal than metal.
I really like that Gene plays so much triplets in this song, like triplet-fills as well as fast triplet double bass parts. This gives that song a very unique and heavy style!
He's a really cool down to earth guy as well. All hail Gene the Machine!
@@yiana7224 Agreed - Gene is a very friendly guy. Been a fan since the Dark Angel days and i surely regret none of that.
I mean that's a fear factory staple. Whom SYL are directly influenced by.
I really love the fucking part at 3:17
so fucking awesome, when they played it live they did a synchronized headbang thing and it looked so awesome
and the fucking flute thing in the background is so chill.
Devin is just a fucking master mind.
Absolutely badass song, Devin and the whole band are just beasts.
i remember how outstanding this sound was when this came out more than 20 years ago. And still is! Volume up
All Hail The New Flesh = Masterpiece....
Delightfully violent album.
23 years ago? This album changed my life! All hail!
Same here
Wow 23 years ago cant believe it time is flying by
@@richharris9489 It was kind of an awakening for me when I put the cd the first time in the player of my friends new hifi system with a pair of self built six foot high speakers and listened in 1997 to this song, volume up to marking. At least we did not listen, we were blown away by the pure energy which threw us literally directly against the wall of his room. Never again experienced something like this in my life.
This and detox spoke to me In a way nothing had before.
I can almost visualize the veins in Devin's neck bulging. Seriously powerful voice, makes me think of Tom Angelripper
It doesn't really get more insanely intense than "City". An album that made Fear Factory sound like a mildly convincing pop band to my teen ears. Seeing the band live back then was a shockingly crushing experience that set a bar no band really managed to match ever since.
😂 Haha Fear Factory was much heavier 🤘 But SYL was good too though.
@@jaytan6123 SYL was way more extreme than FF both musically and vocally when "City" came out.
Listenned to both bands a shitton back then.
@@jaytan6123 Bought it the second it was released just because Metal Hammer review stated it's more intense than FF and it surely was. For some time that CD wast stuck in player for a few weeks - no chance for anything else.
SYl is like FF on steroids😂, chill
Soul of a New Machine is a masterpiece though
Back around 2004, some random dude walked up to me at Best Buy (this was back when they still had a robust music department), and he asked me "Dude, were is all the good metal?" I had long hair at the time, so I guess he assumed I was an expert. I was there for the new Nightwish and told him to check them out, but as he went into the music he was into (basically metalcore), I quickly took the Nightwish CD out of his hand and said, "You don't want this. Have you heard of Strapping Young Lad?" He said no, so I took him over to one of the listening stations they had (pretty sure it was an early version of Rhapsody), and pulled this song up for him. He seemed pretty bewildered, but walked away to buy a SYL CD.
top 10 greatest heavy metal anthems of all time, and would be somewhere in my top 5 personally
Aren't you an admin of the SYL Facebook group?
The first 40 seconds of this song blows my mind every time. Every piece fits perfectly after the last. That simple riff at the beginning foreshadows the descent into chaos that follows immediately afterwards, then it all somehow coalesces into that amazing scream, then boom straight back down into chaos. Unreal.
I remember in 1997, I had 17 years old and listened this album on school bus. I like
"All of you assholes can stay rotting here
I do not care, I will not be there"
I don't think a lyrics ever summed up my feels better...
Still listen this masterpiece in 2020 \m/
LETS HAIL A NEW FLASH!
Actually sadly missed devin🥺
Showed this to my cat. He's now a might tiger and demands new flesh.
Oh my lord.. That's not good
This is my ultimate calming down song. I listen to it, headbang, squeel/scream along and then by the end I am at peace once more (and have lost my voice).
A perfect circle ad on a strapping young lad video... nice.
Brutal. Epic. Masterpiece. Fact
I loved Vai's Sex and Religion album, so when I saw an ad in Metal Sludge for City, I sent out a Fax to request a copy of City. Chipster PR hooked me up with a promo copy. I''ll never forget listening to this on headphones at work. Although I wasn't a fan of really heavy stuff at the time, this was a musical revelation for me - the glanging of Velvet Kevorkian into All Hail the New Flesh..... and Boom, it suddenly all made sense.. City was my favorite album of 1997 (high praise considering my all-time favorite band Cheap Trick also released its brilliant self titled 1997 album that same year). All Hail the New Flesh became my personal theme song, and I've been a Devin Townsend fan ever since.,
The more I listen to this song the more I feel like it’s my favourite song of all time. ALL HAIL THE METAL
The best song to play when you hit rock bottom
Or when you're on an insane euphoria trip
I ended up here 12 years after first hearing it on a pretty rock bottom night - shit will bring you back to life and get your head straight in an incredible way.
@@guilhermeantoniolouvenfior9771 Listened to this song on LSD a few years ago...Straight up shot me into another world haha.
@@DissonanceEngineer very apt description.
He was pretty much at rock bottom mentally. He's doing better now
This song genuinely makes me extremely happy and I do not know why but I love it
Devin Townsend is a genius, there is absolutely no doubt about that. The Strapping Young Lad years have been what I loved the most in his career.
Ah, the days of my better years.. this was playing too loud first day in my first apartment.. ♥️🤘🏻
Who said that thrash was dead in the 90s? It only grew and evolved! This mix with industrial metal is the shit! Devin is a bloody genious!!
Try Voivod - Phobos. 90s thrashy prog industrial. Rivals this for heaviness.
I blew my voice out trying to sing the chorus around the house....It hurt....!
if it hurt, don't do this, you'll ruin your voice, such fry screams are very dangerous.
that's the fuckin devin dude
In a guitar clinic Devin did, he mentioned that one of his earliest vocal coaches told him that the way he's singing will kill his voice soon. And here he is 20 years later, still doing it.
@@neeltheother2342 It was killing his voice you could hear that he fucked his high register for a period around 2005-2006 very noticeable with some live performances of 'Love?'
best song on city!
Einjahar 01 *best song in the world
By far the best metal band I have seen live. \m/
The best shit Devin Townsend has ever written! SYL for life!
Now this is an extreme metal band. SYL is fucking awesome!
All Hail The New Flesh is quite possibly the only metal song you'll need to hear before you die, it's THAT good. After 15 years since I first heard it I'm still trying to become The New Flesh Devin was talking about
Every passing second IS the new flesh
I did become the new flesh eventually, took sixteen years after I first heard this song though
@@lexacutable Wow, congrats :D
I am ashamed I haven't listened to Strapping earlier. Dheavy is a god.
its been a year is your neck hurting and your ear ringing you should be up to date now
The most epic & monster metal song ever men. lml
AND ALL YOU ARE IS ALL YOU ARE
This song is so good that my wife who in general listens to Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias - blasts it in the car full volume.
I wish I could hear this song for the first time!
This song was on sirius xm. The channel was called liquid metal (ch. #40)
One of the best metal albums
I saw them live in 2003 in Wolverhampton, it was beyond amazing
Holy fuck. Where has this been all my life, and why have i never found out about SYL/Devin Townsend until a few days ago?
Oh fuck YEAH!!!! Heavy Devy at his finest!!
0 thumbs down. that is empirical evidence sirs, this is the only SCIENTIFICALLY proven "flawless" metal song ever recorded.
Roy Rodgers McFreely it has two now though.
Roy Rodgers McFreely 12 fuckers that died shortly after
I feel like anyone who would thumbs down this has no business being here in the first place
His first album is a beast although Devin don't like it. But when he formed a band and released City... that changed everything, what a goddamn beautiful album.
Nice profile picture :)
@@standaman4578 You too
todavia me revienta el corazon !!!!!
Industrial metal classic
One of the best songs ever!
This album changed my life.
me too!! glad i got to see SYL a couple times.
Mine too.
I was going to write some fucking overstated, unnecessarily verbose comment about just how much, but, yeah. The impact was fucken real, man. If you felt it, you know, and that's it.
Thanks Dev.
Eargasm
this is the all round greatest heavy track of all time
My neck is broken now
SYL was heavy fucking metal. Oh My Fucking God
The 14 dislikes are the ones who didn't hail the new flesh.
Probably Metallica fans
1st listened this on 1998 maybe from mp3 samples that century media had on their website!
This is still ridiculously heavy.
Class song still good today
Greatest of all time
im sitting on the computer early morning listening to some shitty music then ALL HAIL started my brain was like time to wake up
Best way to start 2021
This song got me into heavy metal.
I just found this, it's so good. Wtf!
I remember playing this song playing doom,great album.
They where way ahead of there time this fits perfectly in 2022 aka Armageddon
Best metal album ever 🤘🤘🤘🤘🥰
22 years 😱
SYL makes my neck hurt.
Glorious
glorious
As a teenager, prior to Slipknot’s debut album, this song was the most perfectly composed and brutal I’d ever heard. There is not a single movement of this song that isn’t perfect.
0:29 The FUCKING art of EXPLODING your drums !
1:50 planet rain my friends
개인적으로 장르는 다르지만 데빈 타운젠트랑 스티브 윌슨은 천재라고 생각함 1997년에 이런사운드라니 진짜 익스트림계에서 손꼽히는 천재라고 생각함 ..
공감합니다
Greatest band ever. I've told Devin this and he called me a fat cunt, I agreed, he won ;)
HOLY FOOK.
chuck headphones on and yell this loudly in public.. its hilarious. speaking from experience.
Respect
There is intense, then there is SYL
Demanufacture….Perfect
CITY Perfection.
Dude the breaks in this song are so fucking brutal. Try not to headbang it's impossible
To this day
"ALL I NEED IS SLEEP AND ALL OF YOU AND I WILL GET BY
F*CK THIS CITY
F*CK THIS MIND!"
/edit: wow, it even rhymes this way
Struggle and rebirth
internal organs explode
HELP! Who can understand background words/quote from 4-05 to 4-20??? Nobody nows that? And where this quote was taken from?
The end sounds like ".......a whole body of water will swell upon Earth" - So maybe it's a quote from The Holy Bible and Noah's ark? It makes sense, what do you think of it? OR the actual song title itself, "All hail the new flesh," is a direct quote from a film from the 80s called "Videodrome," starring James Woods and Debbie Harris (aka, 'Blondie,' the frontwoman from Blondie). Maybe it’s quote from that movie? Who can help?
I think I've got it. I thought the start sounded like "Portentous earthquakes and floods", and looking around online for that phrase turned up a translation of Timaeus, one of Plato's dialogues, where he was talking about Atlantis. Seems like they included a sample of someone reading it aloud.
Full quote, with the relevant section in brackets, is "But at a later time there occurred [portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth,] and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled down."
Maddbox11235 Man, thanks so much for the clarification! I always loved that part in the song, it‘s so epic and as a non-native english speaker I always wondered what the spoken voice exactly said. Thanks a lot!
@@Maddbox11235 I've been looking for all the samples from this album. This is great! Just have to find that recording now...
@@DustyDigits If it helps your search, that's not the standard translation. It's been like a year, but I remember when I looked that up, there was one translation of Timaeus that was everywhere and did not contain that specific wording, and another translation that only popped up a few times that did contain that specific wording. The joys of trying to translate poetry, I suppose. Decisions must be made to balance literal meaning, metaphorical meaning, and poetic meter.
man, this song sounds like the universe being created
...and then OMFG sounds like the universe being destroyed lol
I'm raping the replay button
This album changes your fucking life, man.
•⍼ DEATH TO THE IMAGE
HAIL TO THE NEW FLESH
Amazing
the guitars, and really the production overall sound like 20-teens era production and this was from 1997 somehow?!?!
I wonder if this song has anything to do with the movie Videodrome?
Sugar in my veins