I can admire Devin's creativity and how productive he is. He certainly doesn't rest on his laurels. The music he makes isn't for me though and the way he tends to layer and mix his music makes a lot of it feel sort of similar to me.
I've not listened in depth to most of his albums, but I have surfed around a lot of it through the years and... at least his metal projects don't seem massively different from eachother to my ears. Not that they aren't different from each other, but it's not like the difference between 80's glam and early black metal.
I feel like he's diverse, but definitely also has a lot of personal stylings and preferences that shine through in most of what he does. That goes for almost any good artist, so it's not like it's a bad thing.
My biggest criticism of Devin is that his music mostly feels bland and sterile to me, but that has to do with how he want's things to sound and how I want the opposite. Listening to any of his metal projects at length gives me a headache.
Basically, I admire Devin but I don't like his music.
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