STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - SYL (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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  • STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - SYL
    From the album "Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing"Century Media 1995
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  • @Deadlights-94
    @Deadlights-94 7 лет назад +99

    The intro rotating shot when they're posing is fucking genius. Devin is a madman in the most glorious way

    • @electricebb3337
      @electricebb3337 Год назад +1

      I like how his top has his name on it, like all great Canadians

  • @raptuous
    @raptuous 3 года назад +135

    wait until all the vocal coaches reacting to Kingdom discover the SYL era Devy

  • @vinniecentz
    @vinniecentz 4 года назад +94

    1995: came out this, Demanufacture and Destroy Erase Improve.
    What a fantastic year!

    • @czr7j9
      @czr7j9 4 года назад +8

      And Death- Symbolic

    • @vinniecentz
      @vinniecentz 4 года назад +3

      @Dave Levensworth S.C.I.E.N.C.E. came out in '97.
      I didn't include Symbolic because it's another genre. Those three I cited are pretty much related, genre-wise

    • @arekhautaluoma4276
      @arekhautaluoma4276 4 года назад +10

      Not to mention Disco Volante...

    • @Ruffnek310
      @Ruffnek310 3 года назад +2

      Incubus, Meshuggah, syl fans you guys mid 30s?

    • @craigperry6713
      @craigperry6713 3 года назад +1

      @@Ruffnek310 incubus, meshuggah and syl fan here, 29 til November.

  • @Latinwolverine
    @Latinwolverine 11 лет назад +64

    Happy or sad. Angry or depressed. Energetic or calm. This song works for me no matter what mood I'm in. And it always makes me joyful and unable to give a shit.

    • @FumblsTheSniper
      @FumblsTheSniper Год назад +1

      It’s wild that RUclips just recommended me this video while I was thinking about how I couldn’t tell if I was happy or angry or ready for what’s next. Hope you’re still jamming.

  • @hudsonsirheshicks2653
    @hudsonsirheshicks2653 4 года назад +55

    My intro to SYL. This and Meshuggah introduced me to a more layered, heavier, intense style of metal a good twenty years ago. Still the best of its kind. I miss Devin’s chaotic side.

  • @Pvt_Hudson
    @Pvt_Hudson 8 лет назад +102

    so fucking underrated it's unbelievable.

    • @adamrowles6662
      @adamrowles6662 7 лет назад +8

      Thank fuck someone knows what they have, they are absolutely fucking brilliant.

    • @dr.decker3623
      @dr.decker3623 3 года назад +5

      not under rated,.. simply under heard... for anypne that hears this, is changed forever.

    • @imaginarydreamers3942
      @imaginarydreamers3942 3 года назад +3

      Fucking game changer in music when this came out in '95. New level of sickness and very delicate same fucking time. Holy fuck!

  • @drvl7n
    @drvl7n 8 лет назад +51

    21 years later, still the best fuck you song about working for an INC.

  • @BirdIsTheWord69
    @BirdIsTheWord69 13 лет назад +32

    love how devin is just not holding back and is just going crazy through the entire video

  • @DarksaberForce
    @DarksaberForce 12 лет назад +18

    "I am a coming of a new age" He's right about that. A new age of music from him in future releases.

  • @biggunsnu
    @biggunsnu 10 лет назад +63

    This man has no limits to his creativity and ability. I would say that about very few.

    • @ajwaters9877
      @ajwaters9877 9 лет назад +10

      I'm not a fan of his solo stuff, but I can appreciate it for what it is. He is a very talented individual and quite possibly a musical genius as far as creativity, patience and self discipline is concerned.

  • @LordOvWaffles
    @LordOvWaffles 13 лет назад +23

    Devin Townsend writes the best choruses ever, hands down.

  • @princessleotardovadincithe7771
    @princessleotardovadincithe7771 10 лет назад +53

    The editing in this video is phenomenal for 1994-1995 era! Been listening to this song, and album, since I was in my early teens! Never gets old!

  • @TonyArenas
    @TonyArenas 10 лет назад +27

    I am so fortunate to say that I video taped this off MTV's Headbangers ball back in the 90's. This was my teenage soundtrack! That makes me a music GOD now a days ! hahahahah

    • @andreashierling9297
      @andreashierling9297 3 года назад +2

      This and Fear Factory, nothing else ever got over it... or have i missed something?

  • @GilCloud
    @GilCloud Год назад +13

    This and “In the Rainy Season“ are simply the most mind blowing opening for a metal album I ever heard in the 90s: fast, chaotic, brutal, but also melodic, epic and intimate at the same time. The rest of the album is at a demo level, but these two songs are enormous.

  • @ThomAvella
    @ThomAvella 7 лет назад +45

    "THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SHOT OF JED" got me good

  • @tristangieler
    @tristangieler 10 лет назад +26

    this song carried me through my teens and it's still an all time favourite. I like Dev's new stuff, but the old SYL is what I have always felt the most

  • @BubuSnow93
    @BubuSnow93 13 лет назад +11

    I love the fact that this song are incredibly heavy but still keep the ryth and the melody, witout only screaming and/or burping incomprensibly words.
    SYL best metal band ever !

  • @benjaminroy15
    @benjaminroy15 7 лет назад +107

    fact...all strapping young lad songs must be played at full volume

    • @azerix4168
      @azerix4168 7 лет назад +2

      Ben Roy the amount of times I've lay down and put my headphones on full volume just to appreciate this genius...

    • @Ruffnek310
      @Ruffnek310 6 лет назад +2

      i miss those loud abrasive shows!!

    • @taylorbrown5
      @taylorbrown5 3 года назад +1

      Absolutely!!

  • @megaman7799
    @megaman7799 6 лет назад +96

    Devin looks like an adult playing a teenager in an 80s movie.

    • @dangergirldesigns5943
      @dangergirldesigns5943 5 лет назад +5

      I always thought he looked sort of like Willem Dafoe, at least before he went bald.

  • @Tapp-Mourningwood
    @Tapp-Mourningwood 5 лет назад +8

    This is some of the most intense, relentless, and heavy sh*t I ever heard! I'm digging this.

  • @jackedup447
    @jackedup447 8 лет назад +15

    This is a important shot of JED. Best shot ever.

  • @TheMeh115
    @TheMeh115 6 лет назад +24

    2:56
    Probably the most important shot in this entire video.

  • @TheJake3
    @TheJake3 3 года назад +9

    The staccato string section in the choruses is beyond epic.
    This song needs to be re-recorded ASAP!

  • @0ut0f7h1sw0r1d
    @0ut0f7h1sw0r1d 14 лет назад +7

    Man I love this shit! Devin Townsend is such a beast! I dont know he disliked Heavy as a Heavy Thing, it had some of his best songs!

  • @1997rodman
    @1997rodman 8 лет назад +131

    I'm honestly shocked this doesn't have millions of views so pure raw and honest anger and hostility but then again "Normal People." can't handle this real shit.

    • @zachlovett1932
      @zachlovett1932 8 лет назад +15

      No joke, and devin is a fucking genius very underrated, was fortunate enough to see him and meet him with strapping young lad at ozzfest before they disbanded, fucking amazing show.

    • @luukeksifrozenhillbillyeur3407
      @luukeksifrozenhillbillyeur3407 6 лет назад +8

      2edgy4me

    • @SSHGL
      @SSHGL 4 года назад +5

      Don't cut yourself on that edge, man.

    • @MrMuench
      @MrMuench 4 года назад

      You are so right about normies cant handle this real shit. I play this for metalheads and even some of them just can't take it. almost everyone I play it for just thinks it's way to intense. I love it's brutal honesty and think it's hands down the best use of the F word in a song anywhere.

    • @toddtaylor8368
      @toddtaylor8368 4 года назад

      Detox video has over a million views

  • @DarthMohammedRules
    @DarthMohammedRules 4 года назад +5

    Jeez, I guess I'll just be one of the few people appreciating the hell out of this bad-ass song without talking about Devin's hair or how he looks.

  • @SuperMegaHandyHand
    @SuperMegaHandyHand 8 лет назад +8

    I remember seeing this video on Noisy Mothers and being totally blown away. Nothing else quite like it.

  • @DaveTerrasidio
    @DaveTerrasidio 2 года назад +5

    just discovered this amazing band. so happy. :P

  • @Idey1994
    @Idey1994 13 лет назад +5

    I love the melodic part at around 2:12, they always manage to be melodic but still really heavy

  • @phfrixion
    @phfrixion 14 лет назад +4

    All time fave!!!! Even 15 years later innovative and brutal. Adrian White kicks ass on drums!

  • @21nspired
    @21nspired Год назад +3

    I finally read the lyrics to this after 20 years and I now know what this song is about. It's pumping some new life into me.

  • @bradys9402
    @bradys9402 2 года назад +3

    Heard about this song on the SYL episode of the Heavy with Andrew and Don. It’s even better with the video

  • @cannonfodder4000
    @cannonfodder4000 10 лет назад +8

    Gotta throw it out there, I fucking love Devy's mannerisms in this video, they're hysterical, I love all the wild gesturing and arm waving he does, I wanna be like that!

  • @Laindal
    @Laindal 14 лет назад +5

    The first one "Heavy as a really heavy thing"
    This song is just incredible O.O

  • @adamclark52
    @adamclark52 13 лет назад +1

    This album doesn't get the respect it deserves, the first two songs are two of the best SYL songs

  • @noanoodles2962
    @noanoodles2962 8 лет назад +3

    I love this song!! I love how angry and raw they sounded back then... And the video is seriously awesome! I like the "This is an important shot of Jed" part lol

  • @Casketkrusher_
    @Casketkrusher_ 4 года назад +8

    The Devin I grew up with. Blasting this gem throughout my teen years. I remember someone said to me around 1999 check out Slipknot it's aggressive. I listened and I laughed my ass of.

    • @XnazxulX
      @XnazxulX 4 года назад

      Yeah same. But someone showed me Korn around the same time and then slipknot and said “these guys make SYL sound like Enya” whatever the f he meant

  • @KRAPYBARA84
    @KRAPYBARA84 7 лет назад +253

    Weird seeing A backstreet boys hairstyle on our father

    • @ArtmaniafestivalRo
      @ArtmaniafestivalRo 6 лет назад

      Sliaom

    • @quesocfh6080
      @quesocfh6080 6 лет назад +6

      it was the 90s lmao...skullet came soon after

    • @Ruffnek310
      @Ruffnek310 5 лет назад +3

      They copied him! Just couldnt take the extremes of such a dew and made it homosexual... some just fail. Backstreet Boys that is.

    • @seriskifotavrus6442
      @seriskifotavrus6442 5 лет назад +2

      this is for what I am started to listened SYL!!!Greetings from Russia!!!;-)))
      Ofcouse, at first it was an album "Soul Of a new machine" By "Fear Factory"(1992) One of the great heavy metal industrial albums!.All are these guys I have listened almost at the same time,but more prefer Devin Townsend and his projects later, couse,as for me,he is more talented as well!

    • @NevermoreNevermore...
      @NevermoreNevermore... 4 года назад +1

      Who's backstreet boys? Anyways, Dev looks like Edward Nygma here :D

  • @FormerlyMrBean667
    @FormerlyMrBean667 14 лет назад +5

    As soon as those first drum machine beats come on at 0:40, I become a new person.

  • @Summoning161
    @Summoning161 7 лет назад +1

    I really miss that times, i was like 13-14 years old, and i was blasting this song at max volume... Yep, I miss that times

  • @dharvell
    @dharvell 2 года назад +2

    I **chug chug** your fucking **chug chug**
    And I **chug chug** your fucking **chug chug**
    That's what my mind sings back whenever this song is stuck in my head.

  • @itookallthenames
    @itookallthenames Год назад +5

    For all his uplifting modern stuff, this still makes me feel better than any of it

  • @ANOLDMANONCRACK
    @ANOLDMANONCRACK 14 лет назад +3

    SUCH AN UNDERRATED ALBUM!!! One of the best industrial metal songs I've ever heard

  • @ekulyarg
    @ekulyarg 4 года назад +1

    From day one the dude created a wall of sound. Awesome

  • @villcrs4110
    @villcrs4110 3 года назад +4

    Just bring back all these video values man. You can't express metal in 4K.

  • @saberwolfe6363
    @saberwolfe6363 11 лет назад +3

    i love how raw this video is and at the same time looks fucking spectacular

  • @MarkKulacz
    @MarkKulacz 13 лет назад +2

    No words to describe how underrated this song is.

  • @AliceC993
    @AliceC993 13 лет назад +3

    I once spent 3 and a half hours listening to all 5 SYL albums.
    I couldn't feel my neck the next day XD

  • @logarithmic7
    @logarithmic7 11 лет назад +3

    I miss this intense shit. The stuff that reminds you of WHY you're alive! Thanks for the memories SYL!

  • @alongyourpath
    @alongyourpath Год назад +1

    2022 and I just heard Call of the Wild. Had to come back and relive my childhood. I just remember this was a track that was played non stop cus that chorus was dedicated to some forgotten ex-girlfriend.
    Devin still going strong and putting out music that touches your inner soul!

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr 12 лет назад +1

    I still love Devy in all his manifestations, but man I do miss the rage days.... back when he could scream without risking an aneurysm. This song, message or music, just wouldn't be the same without the rage.

  • @sketchessays6940
    @sketchessays6940 7 лет назад +87

    .....that kid intro is Devin Townsend at 3 years old. WHAT

    • @Dschoean
      @Dschoean 6 лет назад +22

      Yep, it's true. Read it in an Interview some time ago.

    • @sgtraytango
      @sgtraytango 4 года назад

      @That Frosty Ape Yeah, there' another track on the album that ends with another of young Devy's stories.

    • @arekhautaluoma4276
      @arekhautaluoma4276 4 года назад +1

      That's what I guessed immediately. Just got into SYL a few months ago...makes sense to me, especially since he probably saw a bear in his backyard (I live in Victoria, across the water from Vancouver) as a boy!

    • @ChapsShrugged
      @ChapsShrugged 3 года назад

      🤯💀☠👻🤖👽

  • @quj0r
    @quj0r 13 лет назад +3

    He went back in time to give himself the "DEV" shirt. No one would have recognized him without it.

  • @Leviathan_Cross
    @Leviathan_Cross 9 лет назад +31

    Devin looks like a hardcore Amish dude

  • @jravell
    @jravell 12 лет назад +5

    This is a great video. You have no idea what's going on, it fits the song perfectly. And I love Devin, he made it cool to go bald in Metal.

  • @earworm
    @earworm 4 года назад +3

    This does something good to my brain

  • @julienj9163
    @julienj9163 3 года назад +4

    Classic tune. The amount of hate in this stuff is incredible.

  • @enricopersia4290
    @enricopersia4290 4 года назад +1

    ....and I'm still here after all these years, coming back from the time I had no google user and watched this for the first time.

  • @dragroch5536
    @dragroch5536 2 года назад +3

    If I start a new band I will call our first album "Heavy and Hard Rhino Turd" as a tribute to SYL. Hall of Fame band they are!

  • @Rascaduanok
    @Rascaduanok 13 лет назад +5

    I remember when I first heard this all those years ago it sounded so… futuristic to me, haha. It still has the best chorus ever though!

  • @bobsmiff
    @bobsmiff 14 лет назад +1

    Awesome band - awesome song - love the intro. Thank the Gods for Devi!

  • @alexschuster1618
    @alexschuster1618 6 месяцев назад +1

    This song goes out to every other driver out there.

  • @lorenyork
    @lorenyork 10 лет назад +4

    What a sweet lullaby..

  • @DrumEagle
    @DrumEagle 14 лет назад +3

    I love the chorus!!

  • @conschbob
    @conschbob 5 лет назад +2

    geezus they were far ahead their time. insanely raw and pure

  • @silentdeath126
    @silentdeath126 3 года назад +4

    Holy shit! Devin Townsend had hair on the top of his head once?

  • @srryforowningu
    @srryforowningu 14 лет назад +2

    such an amazing scream and clean voice

  • @BloodRed87
    @BloodRed87 15 лет назад +1

    Probably the best quality version of the video on here, and it's awesome.
    \m/

  • @FormerlyMrBean667
    @FormerlyMrBean667 15 лет назад +3

    It's funny because he was the coming of the best age of metal.

  • @BlackSwordMeister
    @BlackSwordMeister 14 лет назад +5

    I'm well aware of what the poor guy's been through. What I meant was that it's what makes his material so addictive.

  • @zoolakid
    @zoolakid 14 лет назад +1

    this is soo much heavier than all that deathcore crap we have nowadays. and i love how dev looks like one of the backstreet boys :D

  • @WookieDrives
    @WookieDrives 12 лет назад +1

    I love the first 2 albums to death. This is the song that got me loving SYL & Dev.

  • @jonnyDeluge
    @jonnyDeluge 15 лет назад +1

    lovin it !!!! keep goin with this style...thrash..N..groove.... S.Y.L. rules...

  • @Alexeyref
    @Alexeyref 11 лет назад +4

    underrated song

  • @shannonclaire4260
    @shannonclaire4260 9 лет назад +2

    OMG! I forgot how fun this song is :)

  • @julesickdrums
    @julesickdrums 14 лет назад +2

    i need to get this, this is exactly the kind of strange and loud music i like

  • @Ruffnek310
    @Ruffnek310 10 лет назад +3

    God how I miss the old shows!

  • @Joetheviking84
    @Joetheviking84 14 лет назад +3

    Oh my God! I've never seen this video before. Devin has hair! seriously though, 1995? So far ahead their time. I'm very impressed. :)

  • @metalred74
    @metalred74 10 лет назад +1

    As heavy things go,it is most definitely a really heavy thing! Back in 1995, I almost got a hernia trying to pick it up for the 1st time.I didn't try to do that again! Since then,I've just had to leave it where it was sitting and enjoy it where it sat!

  • @trestabernae7250
    @trestabernae7250 6 лет назад +2

    J'ai adoré le premier album à l'époque, vrai choc

  • @nicksebas
    @nicksebas 7 лет назад +1

    i love it!!!!!!! SYL Forever!!!!

  • @dannychainsawhands
    @dannychainsawhands 14 лет назад +1

    I figured so. He is quite the musical genius.
    Thanks for the info.

  • @siemprehacesol
    @siemprehacesol 12 лет назад

    1995, this song changed my vision of what music can achieve. Thanks guys, I´m a Devin´s fan since then \m/

  • @Skindrift
    @Skindrift 13 лет назад +2

    @Idey1994 That's what makes them awesome is their ability to be heavy but melodic at the same time like Fear Factory.

  • @seriskifotavrus5387
    @seriskifotavrus5387 3 года назад +1

    this is fucking DEVIN TOWNSEND BEST CLIP EVER!!!From it I began to listen Death-Industrial-Heavy Metall till this time !!!I I am 44 right now!!!Greetings from Russia to all H&M fans!!!

  • @RedEbSeb13
    @RedEbSeb13 8 лет назад +12

    Rise Dev and your 90s bowl cut!

  • @athelia4444
    @athelia4444 13 лет назад +1

    God bless the 90's!!! :D :D

  • @Empiricist14
    @Empiricist14 10 лет назад +5

    the beginning of a fucking GENIUS.

    • @FellishBeast
      @FellishBeast 10 лет назад

      Luckily he's changed course a bit, but there aren't many songs better for venting your anger...lmao.

  • @Casketkrusher_
    @Casketkrusher_ 9 лет назад +26

    Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing and City are their best albums ever. What a hate and violence was it back then.

    • @DC33879
      @DC33879 6 лет назад +3

      Doom Guy When Doom Guy speaks, you listen. The man who singlehandedly brought hell to its knees will not be denied.

    • @sashatagger3858
      @sashatagger3858 5 лет назад +1

      DC 33879 amen

    • @KaneRobot
      @KaneRobot 4 года назад

      Nah. Heavy is practically a collection of demos realized to completion. No coherent thought or theme. Worst in the catalog, not that it's bad.

    • @Casketkrusher_
      @Casketkrusher_ 4 года назад +3

      @@KaneRobot You observed the liner notes I see.

  • @NickSwe
    @NickSwe Год назад

    from time to time I come back and watch this video cause I just feel like it is a good day to rage over whatever... and it makes me happy :)

  • @marshimedia
    @marshimedia 13 лет назад +1

    This was the first I saw of S.Y.L., amazing!

  • @Aki-eq4kf
    @Aki-eq4kf 6 лет назад +3

    Just fucking love this, the first album from them I ever got familiar with.

  • @sashatagger3858
    @sashatagger3858 5 лет назад +2

    Only 400+ viewers!? This is a classic!

  • @corokingi
    @corokingi 5 лет назад +1

    Oh so epic, I feels the power!!!!

  • @DaoineEile
    @DaoineEile 11 лет назад

    what a genius is good at is not only his creation, but also his action, if cool or ridiculous.

  • @teddyplayerone4099
    @teddyplayerone4099 Год назад +1

    It was great to be 13 and have this 🤘

  • @BelchTycoon
    @BelchTycoon 13 лет назад

    These guys are the only ones who can make an album to get me to lose track of time.
    Skullet.

  • @Bakutakamine
    @Bakutakamine 11 лет назад

    This is so. How have I missed this for like four years?

  • @apolobass
    @apolobass 15 лет назад +1

    I still remember the first time I heard this song... Fuck!!! It blew me away!

  • @ubergnu
    @ubergnu 3 года назад +2

    Man once said to me, "Boy, you like Fear Factory"? And I hesitated, I then looked upon him and said "Yes". He spoke; "But have you heard SYL, boy?". And I had not. Then I knew that I was incomplete. So I heard SYL, and then the bottom of the basket gave away, and I saw the things that were.