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Strapping Young Lad

Death metal
Death metal

Strapping Young Lad is a Death metal act. Their sound grew out of Bif Naked, Steve Vai, The Devin Townsend Band and Opeth. 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, Fear Factory, Meshuggah, Prong and Stam1na, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Fear Factory and Soilwork, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Strapping Young Lad, reaching back through Bif Naked and forward to Fear Factory. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Strapping Young LadBif NakedSteve VaiThe Devin Townsend B…OpethFear FactorySoilworkThe Devin Townsend B…Fear FactoryMeshuggahProngStam1naGojiraBetween the Buried a…Ministry

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Strapping Young Lad connections

Strapping Young Lad grew out of Bif Naked, Steve Vai, The Devin Townsend Band and Opeth, shares an orbit with The Devin Townsend Band, Fear Factory, Meshuggah and Prong, went on to shape Fear Factory and Soilwork. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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