Carbon-Based AnatomyCynic · 2012

pitchfork

“Cynic started in the early 1990s as a technical jazz-fusion-minded death metal band, releasing their seminal debut Focus in 1993. When the progressive L.A.-via-Miami group reformed in 2008 and put out a second album, the excellent Traced in Air, a year later, they'd smoothed out the earlier elements, while introducing softer, cleaner textures. It was the rare reunion album that topped the band's s”