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Strapping Young Lad is a Death metal act. Their sound grew out of Opeth, Steve Vai, The Devin Townsend Band and Bif Naked. Those roots explain a lot about how Strapping Young Lad arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Devin Townsend Band, Meshuggah, Stam1na, Gojira and Between the Buried and Me, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Soilwork and Fear Factory, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Strapping Young Lad, reaching back through Opeth and forward to Soilwork. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Strapping Young Lad connections
Strapping Young Lad grew out of Opeth, Steve Vai, The Devin Townsend Band and Bif Naked, shares an orbit with The Devin Townsend Band, Meshuggah, Stam1na and Gojira, went on to shape Soilwork and Fear Factory. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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