Photo credit: Tanya Ghosh
The February 28 concert sold like hotcakes, so a second date was added to meet the demand. The Canadian multi-instrumentalist’s acoustic (and unsettling) performance at the 2019 edition of Heavy Montreal apparently had no negative effect on his fans. Given that the tour for the album Empath, released in March 2019, begins in Montreal, it’s a mystery as to whether Townsend will perform mostly material from his solo albums, or whether he will also draw from the repertoire of The Devin Townsend Band, The Devin Townsend Project and Strapping Young Lad. If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll get the Strapping Young Lad songs he played during the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise last January.
