Artist: cynic

In the absence of actual new music or substantial information of some kind, I find it kinda hard to get psyched up about the announcement of an album release date in all but a few special cases. But there have been a number of big release date announcements and rumors in the past few days, [...]

"WHAT?! So the secret identity of Portal was Cynic all along?" Nah, it just so happens that the very American progressive rock band, Cynic, used to be called Portal way back in the mid-'90s. That was around the same period the Australian Portal came into existence, but I bet the two didn't even know that ...

No, not that Portal. Here's a pretty major lapse in my metal education: I somehow had no idea that there was a Cynic "off-shoot" project called Portal, which combines the talents of Paul Masvidal, Sean Reinert, guitarist Jason Gobel, bassist Chris Kringel, and vocalist Aruna Abrams. There's even some demos already up on YouTube (like the one above), so really, seriously, [...]

Van Cynic had ik eigenlijk altijd het idee dat het zich in metalsferen bevond die niet de mijne zijn. Pas door Jeff Wagners uitstekende boek Mean Deviation - Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal kwam ik erachter dan Cynic in...

Meditation location #31 - CBA tour - Amstelveen - I found a park across from the venue where I sat next to a small pond. Reflecting in the water directly in front of me was an upside down tree. I immediately saw in it the classic 'Sephiroth' from Kabbalistic (Jewish mysticism) teachings. Also known as [...]

Cynic's Paul Masvidal has been chronicling the band's U.S. and European Carbon-Based Anatomy tour as part of his Metta Mind Journal column here on MetalSucks over the past few days. Check out previous entries here. Today's meditations come from the band's tour stops in Copenhagen and Hamburg. Meditation location #29 - CBA tour - Lyngsby / Copenhagen, Denmark - Sold [...]

Cynic's Paul Masvidal has been chronicling the band's U.S. and European Carbon-Based Anatomy tour as part of his Metta Mind Journal column here on MetalSucks over the past few days. Check out previous entries here. Today's meditations come from the band's tour stops in Berlin and Osnabrück, Germany. Meditation location #27 - CBA tour. Berlin [...]

Cynic are currently on tour in Europe, so vocalist/guitarist Paul Masvidal has decided to revive his Metta Mind Journal MetalSucks column in the form of a tour diary. Earlier this week we published the first group of entries from the U.S. portion of the tour and the first few European dates, yesterday we published Paul's meditations from Vienna and [...]

Cynic are currently on tour in Europe, so vocalist/guitarist Paul Masvidal has decided to revive his Metta Mind Journal MetalSucks column in the form of a tour diary. Yesterday we published the first group of entries from the U.S. portion of the tour and the first few European dates, and today we have longer meditations [...]

Cynic have been on tour for approximately the past month and a half, starting with their headlining performance at the inaugural Metal Suckfest, trekking across the country to the West Coast, then skipping over to Europe. What started as an effort by Paul Masvidal to simply chronicle each day's meditation with a brief thought and [...]

Download: OTiS CLaPP - Lose My Mind Ft YC The Cynic & ScienZe OTiS teams up with YC the Cynic & Scienze to leak a new track "Lose My Mind" produced by Miles, first track taken from Stay Off My Lawn dropping late 2011/early 2012.

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On its latest EP, progressive rock band Cynic moves its sound in a direction I hope shows up on the group's next full-length. WATCH THE REVIEW

Those who love Progressive Metal, be happy, because Cynic announced 2011 USA tour with 3 and Scale the Summit. On Nov. 23rd, the previously mentioned 3 bands will be performing at LA's own Key Club where they will be giving a performance that will leave no audience unsatisfied. As someone who has seen Cynic [...]

Cynic's Carbon-Based Anatomy EP highlights this week's release slate, while White Wizzard, Blut Aus Nord, Bloody Panda, Coliseum and more are also releasing new albums. Let's take a look after the jump. Bloody Panda – Summon: Invocation (self-released) Epic doom crew Bloody Panda are self-releasing an album of remixes to their 2009 album Summon. It's [...]

Cynic has always been a band known for defying the confines of any particular genre. Their classic, 1993 debut Focus remains unrivaled by most other technical death metal bands, and the jazz fusion influence doesn't sound ever sound forced. After well over a decade of silence, Cynic's 2008 effort, Traced in Air showed the band ...

Cynic, yeni EP'si Carbon Based Anatomy ile aynı ismi taşıyan parçayı zaten dinletmişti bizlere ama şimdi Pitchfork üzerinden bütün EP internet alemine salınmış. Şu adresden dinlenebiliyor.

We're pretty stoked for Cynic's new EP, Carbon Based Anatomy and if you haven't given it a shot yet, now you can. You can now (legally) listen to the entire thing before it comes out this Tuesday, November 15th, over at Pitchfork. Also, check out the recent interview we conducted with the band where they ...

We had a blast at The Metal Suckfest in NYC last weekend, but don't worry if you couldn't make it; earlier this week we shared Justina Villanueva's photos from Night 1 (featuring Municipal Waste, God Forbid, Today is the Day and more) and today we've got Mariel "Tormentia" Pietrykoski's photos from Night 2. After the [...]

Yeah, you read that right. Cynic's entire new EP, Carbon-Based Anatomy, is now streaming in full right here. You should listen to it. As you know from reading my review, it's awesome. So I'm not even gonna type anything else. Just go listen right now, then indulge in a group hug/yoga stretch in the comments [...]

A week ago, just a few days before they closed the The Metal Suckfest and a mere twenty-fours before their first proper performance with their new line-up, Cynic performed an extremely rare, extremely intimate acoustic set at one of our favorite NYC haunts, Idle Hands. I have no idea what the final head count in [...]