STRAPPING YOUNG LAD: Debut Album Reissue To Include Bonus Material

April 7, 2006

Century Media Records will re-release STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's 1995 debut album, "Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing", in Europe on June 12. The re-issue features a re-mastered version of this classic debut, four bonus tracks, the "S.Y.L." video and a 12-page booklet with extended liner notes from Devin Townsend himself. As Devin recalls, "I had finished with THE WILDHEARTS just prior to this [1994], and they were so anti-everything that I decided to take a similar approach while focusing on dissonance and just being as over-the-top as I could. Songs didn't really matter; it was just the intensity and the vibe plus lots of humor. Screaming and laughing are pretty close, I think, and I have just never been 'hard,' so we do what comes naturally, right? Right."

"Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing" (re-issue) track listing:

01. S.Y.L. (4:46)
02. In the Rainy Season (4:37)
03. Goat (3:30)
04. Cod Metal King (5:08)
05. Happy Camper (Carpe B.U.M.) (3:01)
06. Critic (4:08)
07. The Filler – Sweet City Jesus (5:24)
08. Skin Me (3:30)
09. Drizzlehell (3:10)
10. Satan's Ice Cream Truck (2:34) (hidden bonus track from original pressing)
11. Japan (5:17) (originally a Japanese bonus track)
12. Monday (5:13) (previously unreleased bonus track)
13. Exciter 6:04) (European bonus track from original version; JUDAS PRIEST cover version)

+ "S.Y.L." video clip (4:50)

As previously reported, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD have set "The New Black" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in July via Century Media Records. The follow-up to last year's "Alien" is being recorded at the Armoury and Profile studios in the band's hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD have secured a second-stage slot at this year's Ozzfest, which is scheduled to kick off July 1 in san Francisco, California. Other bands appearing the second stage include BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, ATREYU, UNEARTH, BLEEDING THROUGH and NORMA JEAN. Headlining the main stage at Ozzfest 2006 are SYSTEM OF A DOWN and DISTURBED, with OZZY OSBOURNE slated to close 10 shows.

Before embarking on the Ozzfest tour, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD will be playing the following European dates:

Jun. 03 - Jarny, FRA @ Du Chateau De Moncel / Jarny Festival
Jun. 05 – Bologna, ITA @ Flame Fest
Jun. 06 - Lyon, FRA @ Le Transbordeur
Jun. 07 - Paris, FRA @ L'elysee Montmartre
Jun. 09 - Castle Donington, UK @ Download Fest
Jun. 11 - Vosselaar, BEL @ Biebob
Jun. 12 - Amsterdam, NETH @ Melkweg
Jun. 13 - Tilburg, NETH @ 013
Jun. 14 - Copenhagen, DEN @ Lille Vega
Jun. 15 - Hultsfred, SWE @ Festivalen
Jun. 17 - Seinajoki, FIN @ Provinssirock

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