Devin Townsend - Wrong Sub-Genre

I hate being that guy but Devin's work really needs to be moved to the Progressive Metal sub-genre. I get how, initially some of his wall of sound and  eclectic "The Death of Music" style of metal could have been lumped in with a group like Neurosis but at this point the connection just doesn't hold. From Terria  and onward, all of Devin's albums have been riff-based metal with symphonic and keyboard accompaniment right in line Dream Theater and Opeth of the time. 

ssmarcus wrote: I hate being that guy

 one thing to consider though.. why we have so few of 'those guys' here.  Do remember, thinking of that genre placement here never really has been a attempt to definitely categorize.. or pigeonhole an artist.  These artists are so varied.. often from album to album and short of having hundreds of sub-genres (and many think we have too many as it is) one can never really accurately place them.

ahhh.. that does makes things more clear. Unfortunately  you hit on the biggest structural weakness of the site..   tagging by album. As it was the teams did the best they could as I mentioned before with only so subgenres.  It is an imperfect set up here but it is what we are stuck with. The site is simply too far gone.. a relic if you were on cruise control until it runs out of gas or drives off a cliff .. and isn't able to do that now. The owner only cares about the check he gets from visitor hits..and only keeps it up and running and the manpower and motivation to accomplish such a monstrous task likely isn't there anymore. Most have moved on.. or simply retired.

So Devin Townsend is filed under post metal because he’s art metal which is a type of experimental metal although nobody calls it that.

He's in his own little tiny brilliant subsubsubgenre, called Hevy...

A tag cloud for each album selected from a controlled metadata set of standard genre terms, then aggregated to generate a cloud for the artist would have been the standard methodology for managing a dataset like this.