Cynic - I'm But A Wave To... 

R.I.P. Sean Reinert

Cynic is just Cynic, one of the greatest bands of all time.

Been watching y’all for 2 years now..never thought you would get Cynic on here..right on good stuff! Legends in metal

love this band, one of my favs, please more Cynic stuff!!

This band was a decade ahead of their time.

Rest in peace Sean Reinert, what a great drummer

It’s funny that you brought up Death. 2 of this band’s members played on Death’s Human a few years before this album came out. And yeah their lyrics are usually based on oriental theology so you basically interpreted this song correctly. Cynic was probably progressive death metal when this album came out, but prog metal is the best descriptor for them overall

Cynic - Uroboric forms!!

I'm very surprised they picked this one over Veil Of Maya or How Could I for you guys. Veil Of Maya is like the quintessential Cynic song, it seems like. And How Could I has such a great outro piece. You have to do both eventually. Personally, I'm a Traced In Air kinda guy, so something off of that album would be great too. It's the best middle ground of their older, heavier stuff and their new, softer stuff. There are some more Hindu-related lyrical concepts for you to check out, as well (ex. Adam's Murmur, The Unknown Guest). And people have already mentioned the Death connections in the comments. So, I'll just throw another Lack Of Comprehension request into the hat. Btw, I usually think of space when hearing the "weird" parts of this song, not an impending stabbing lmao.

I would of chose a different track but it’s all gold.

Cynic is awesome. Please check out Integral Birth if you haven't already. Such a good song

What is the Problem here to find the Genre ?!? :) - Cynic Focus opens the Door for Progressive Jazz Metal - step into this Door and you enter a new World - same Door you can enter with the HUMAN Record of DEATH

I am very sorry to announce that their bassist died, as well as their drummer. Both died this year.

Cynic has created its own genre.

Well... Veil of Maya, Celestial Voyage by the band are essential. So are Atheist's Mother Man and An Incarnation's Dream.

Focus is "The Cult Album" of metal.

Miami prog legends!!! South Florida baby🤘🤘🤘 it's called progressive metal mixed with jazz fusion Sori

Paul Masvidal is a buddhist and as far as I can tell, experienced with psychedelics, so that should explain some

Jazz Fusion meats Metal ... R.I.P. to Sean Malone (bass - Jaco Pastorius of metal +09.12.2020) & Sean Reinert (drums - Dave Wackel/Vinnie Colaiuta/Dennis Chambers of metal +24.01.2020 )

RIP Sean Malone!. I've seen them live in Enschede (NL), December 1993 at the Atak Club with just a tiny audience. Those were the days, and I'll have a story to tell to my grandchildren one day. Genre? Progressive Metal Free Jazz for sure. And yeah, try their song "Sentiment". Maybe that one isn't that confusing for you guys. ;)

official cynic channel here on yt released a video for their "veil of Maya". like a tribute to their fallen brothers - Sean Reinert and Sean Malone. and even chuck Schuldiner (from Death) can be seen there. you guys should check this video. its so nostalgic

Sean Malone 😭😭😭 Sean Reinert too 😭😭😭

I'm Butter Wave lol Love this band and Atheist These bands have a lot of progressive elements and in case of Atheist, also Jazz. If you guys check early Prog Rock, 70s, 60s, you'll start to understand how Metal incorporates that. I mean, You can hear it in Opeth and Dream Theater of course, but my favorite name would be Death. Then if you go into the brutal side with this fun prog stuff, its Sleep Terror. Check them out

This is an album about spiritual enlightenment and growth using everything from Hindu to Buddhism, reincarnation and other Eastern beliefs

also you must react to Lack of Comprehension, of Death, or Flattering of Emotions, also Death, both awesome trascendental and interesting songs !!

Cynic was booed off stage when they opened for slayer back in the day...very under appreciated band who were pioneers in the prog metal category , nowadays they are known to have influenced some of today's biggest prog metal bands RiP Sean ...

Cloud constructor by Spiral Architect!

Ephel Duath or Sprial Architect are another good bands to listen to after this one.

W A T C H T O W E R ?..My brain is N A I F and my heart is a K A L E I D O S C O P E of M U L T I - C O L O R S...

OMG... old Cynic !!! That was one of my 1st metal album I bought back when I was a teenager in 1993 !!! Thanks for that review !!!

Both Sean Malone and Sean Reinert died in 2020! RIP

They were a very early progressive death metal band and pretty influential (Obscura covered one of their songs for example). Their recent stuff is pretty different

And last nite we lost Sean Malone :(

I finally found you guys listening to Cynic! This is so exciting! I hope some day you get to listen to the album after this Traced in Air, its pretty pretty incredible.

Can't believe you guys did a Cynic piece. thats bad ass! maybe time for more Meshuggah?...

RIP- 😇❤️ to both Sean Malone and Sean Reinert

From France i knowtuhis band since the 90's in the compilation Master of brutality.Thanks for remember of thsi band!

Do HOW COULD I????? next. Great band!

2:43 Sean Malone closed their mouths haha

Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead by Cannibal Corpse

Atheist, Spiral Architect, Watchtower, Spastic Inc, Blotted Science, Control Denied, Obscura, Pestilence, etc. Theres only so far i'll go with the progressive metal/fusion as far as post 2000 bands because they all start to copy each other. Cynic could never top their first album Focus. Spiral Architect only made one album which i think is the best out of all these bands. I'm glad they stopped there because its just one of those albums that cant be topped.

Cynic-Pleading for Preservation, RIP to Sean Reinert my hero of a drummer, also in Death-Lack of Comprehension.

Do How Could I

RIP Sean Malone

SEPTICFLESH Please! Virtues of the Beast Dogma of Prometheus (official live video) Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX

Try "King of those who know" from the second album.

Primera vez que veo a personas indagar bien una canción, felicitación Y 🕉bendiciones

Cynic are immense. Check out Cosmos. Got one of the most bad ass solos ever.

Going full elite metal… nice. Next up maudlin of the Well

Please check out another Cynic music Endlessly Endeavors...it sounds so beautiful.

I saw Cynic open for Dragonforce back in 2009. Good stuff!

Check out Gordian Knot, kind of their instrumental proggy side project. Too beautiful.

Love that you guys can't figure out where to put this band. Welcome to Cynic. Gotta be special to understand it 😁

Please check out Pestilence - Personal Energy

Prog, death, jazz! 🤯😜😂😎☠️🇬🇧

I think veil of maya or how could i would've been a better introduction to cynic

How Could I!!!!!!! , amazing song !!!

Play anything from My Sleeping Karma, anyone know what I'm talking about?

"Veil of Maya" or "How Could I?"! That's where it's at! Whole album's great though.

Florida jazz metal

Focus...

Opeth - Godhead's Lament

Lanka is island , Great island! 🤯😂😎🇬🇧☠️

Progressive tech death metal

Cynic is incredible. I think you’d also find Rudra interesting. They’re a Vedic metal band from Singapore. Check out “The Pathless Path to the Knowable Unknown”.

Do you remember Living Waves by Persefone? Check out whose voice is the melodic kinda-autotuned one :D If you'd listen something from the second record you'll see that they switched from the robotic tuned to the mellow autotuned leaving the harsh vocals a bit in the corner. Cynic were geniuses and pioneers and I saw them live twice. The drummer Sean Reinert passed away few months ago.

Genre would be early tech death

Yes, this band was heavy into Hinduism. Good call, Vin.

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You did a Cynic. That's awesome. I would've suggested How Could I or Veil Of Maya but it's alright.

CYNIC is jazz meta lband! Do react to GRIP Inc. - war between one

Awesomeness!!!!! Reacting to Cynic!!!! 🤘🤘🤘

Kreator - Enemy of god

𝑺𝒖𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒐🇨🇱🖐️

I'd call them (this album at least) jazz influenced progressive tech death. Technical death metal in the early 90s was predominantly jazz influenced.

Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert played on one Death album they are progressive death metal Sean died in January of this year

Hey Vin and Sori, I recommend you listening to "Adam's murmur - Live Japan 2015" it would be great doing a reaction of this live song, it was the last Sean Malone and I think Sean Reinert concert 😭

Good music doesn't have to be constrained by being confined to a genre - nor should your enjoyment and understanding of it. Fwiw, I would say it was Progressive, with elements of Death Metal.

With music this complex and technical,, you’re not supposed to know where it’s going lol 😂😂😂😂😂 this is as far from “easy-listening” you could possibly get

The genre is Progressive Technical Death Metal. Very easy.

Falling in Reverse - The Drug In Me Is Reimagined

Not just with y’all but people people in tune with perspective and perspective not seen I am a person who searches but walls don’t alow me to enter places where I must compromise to have thoughts herd

Need some morbid saint up in this bizznatch

Please react to the strange band solefald

It's progressive death metal, not that complicated.

React to Angra - Carolina IV

Please reach 2 new system of a down song ASAP

I wish your were interesting in stuff lmao

Do Kingslayer, BMTH

Lyricwise their songs are plain and simple. Quite the opposite, compared to very complex and fancy music. To understand their lyrics you just have to have some dharmic basis, especially in hinduism. To understand their music you have to have open heart and empty mind.

VinAnd Sori : All the answers, you are looking for, are in Bible, you two silly atheists :P

Fail

genres are so stupid, guys. Helpful sometimes, but no need to push i in. Cynic are just Cynic.

Cynic - How Could I