Cynic-Focus

[panzerfaust666]

Im sure Cynic has been discussed here before, but i just got into them. These guys are incredible, the album focus is a masterpiece. what you guys think ?

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

I'll probably be the only one on this board with this opinion, but i think it's pretty overrated.

 

[DarkBliss]

I don't listen to it often anymore but it's good album to return to every now and then. The vocals are an acquired taste, though, as they tend to piss off many people. I don't mind them.

 

[Vitor]

i've suggested it to someone that doesn't like metal before 1995

 

[Scourge of God]

Technically brilliant, artistically vapid.

Just save yourself the trouble and download the demos. Much, much better....

 

[panzerfaust666]

cynic is great. they mix everything greatly. and the music, is genuinely fucked up, in a good way. the singer changes his voice with a synth ax ( i believe) and the bass player plays a chapman stick often. wow. true gods . i only wish i could get to see them

 

[MasterOLightning]

Bad production, overrated album.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

guess im not the only one

 

[panzerfaust666]

bad production? maybe. what about the songs then?

 

[challenge_everything]

Brilliant album. Sure, the vocal effects are annoying, and the production is flat, but but otherwise it's a masterpiece.

 

[ohiogrinder]

good music, bad vocals

 

[Xorv]

I need to spend mroe time with it.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Great album, but the vocoder vocals haven't aged well. The songs are really well written though. The production works well in the more ambient passages, but the heavier parts sound cluttered and the distorted guitars sound thin. It was a benchmark in tech-death when it came out though. And they pulled it off amazingly live, their show at the Marquee Club in London in '93 still rates as one of my fave metal gigs.

 

[panzerfaust666]

i think its good, and i dont mind the weird vocals, on the song sentiment its at its best, but the other vocals(screamer) may not be the best, but i think he does good.

 

[nissan]

I like it... Vocals are cool too.

 

[panzerfaust666]

vocals are awesome. why some of u ppl hating on them? u have right to opinion, but stillll

 

[Krilons Resa]

The robot vocals ruin it for me. Otherwise, amazing musicianship.

 

[panzerfaust666]

im bummed i cant see there reunion tour

 

[zim18]

was one of those albums that took a while to get into, and once it did i couldnt stop listening to it

 

[OldScratch]

Technically brilliant, artistically vapid.

Just save yourself the trouble and download the demos. Much, much better....

Precisely! It drips with potential, but never goes anywhere or says anything. This is another one of those "revisionist classics." It was interesting at the time...but I recall no one who was really all that impressed then, despite the obvious technical proficiency displayed.