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7. Nothing To Fear (Transher Version)
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9. Only When I Lose Myself (Depechejuan & OWILM Version)
10. It's No Good (Luckyboy Version)
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12. Stripped (Metropolis Mix)
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14. Strangelove (IOP Version)
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Part: 2 : Cynic - Traced In Air (2008) Password: sharedmp3.net
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Cynic - Traced In Air
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Artist...............: Cynic
Album................: Traced In Air
Genre................: Technical/Progressive Death Metal
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2008
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) & Pioneer DVD-ROM DVR-109
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.0 20070715
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 69 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: Produced by Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert.
Engineered and Mixed by Warren Riker.
Recorded in Los Angeles @ Broken Wave Studios.
Mastered by Chris Bellman @ Bernie Grundman.
Record Label: Season Of Mist.
Ripped by............: shogun on 3/5/2009
Posted by............: shogun on 3/5/2009
News Server..........: news.astraweb.com
News Group(s)........: alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.metal / alt.binaries.sounds.lossless
Included.............: NFO, SFV, PLS, M3U, LOG, PAR v2, CUE
Covers...............: Front Back
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:02:57) Cynic - Nunc Fluens
2. (00:05:47) Cynic - The Space For This
3. (00:03:36) Cynic - Evolutionary Sleeper
4. (00:03:53) Cynic - Integral Birth
5. (00:04:14) Cynic - The Unknown Guest
6. (00:03:29) Cynic - Adam's Murmur
7. (00:06:09) Cynic - King Of Those Who Know
8. (00:04:13) Cynic - Nunc Stans
Playing Time.........: 00:34:18
Total Size...........: 231.79 MB
NFO generated on.....: 3/5/2009 10:58:42 PM
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Cynic is:
Paul Masvidal - Vocals, Guitar
Sean Reinert - Drums, Keyboards
Sean Malone - Bass, Chapman Stick
Tymon Kruidenier - Guitar, Vocals
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Review from www.blistering.com
Review by: David E. Gehlke
Rating: 9.5/10
Bucking the trend of legendary prog/tech bands releasing one solitary album
(see: Watchtower, Spiral Architect, et al), Florida's Cynic return after 15
years with Traced In Air. The longevity and influence of 1993's Focus is not
something to be underestimated, and even though the band broke up barely
a year after its release, Focus remains the quintessential progressive death
metal album of the 90's.
Cynic circa 2008 consists of singer/guitarist Paul Masvidal, drummer Sean
Reinert, bassist Sean Malone, and new guitarist Tymon Kruidenier who
supplies the growled vocals. Somehow, someway, the band has come
extremely closing to matching Focus with Traced In Air, a daringly complex,
sublimely melodic, outwardly technical album with few flaws and a bevy of
jaw-dropping moments.
Masvidal has ditched the vocoder in favor of a more crooning clean vocal
approach, one that is usually off-set by the growls of Kruidenier, creating a
back-and-forth dual between the graceful textures of Focus and the more
angular slice of Traced In Air. Masvidal's heavily-layered vox are the focal
point on "Adam's Murmur," a stunningly precise, yet hypnotic number that is
given an adrenal boost in quick bursts from Reinert, who picks his spots very
well throughout the album.
Lead single "Integral Birth" is perhaps the most memorable number of the
bunch, as a virtual cascade of glimmering melodic guitar runs collide with
Reinert and Malone's air-tight rhythm section. "King of Those Who Know"
develops gradually, only to slowly settle in as Masvidal's thoughtful vocals
take form. "Evolutionary Sleeper" is the busiest number of the bunch
containing an array of jumbled, yet coherent riffs and those legendary
stop-start dynamics that were in high-demand on Focus.
Album closer "Nunc Stans" (which is the bookend to opener "Nunc Fluens")
takes on a new angle for Cynic, as Masvidal's robotic, computerized vocals
spread the wings in one of the rare dreary moments on the album, ending
this 8-song affair on an uncomfortable, almost post-apocalyptic vibe.
The metal world is very different place from when Cynic was firmly embedded
on Roadrunner and at the forefront of the technical metal movement. Fifteen
years can do a lot to a band and to its individual members, but it's safe to say
Cynic is greater than the sum of its parts and Traced In Air is clearly the
culmination of years of waiting, pining, and plotting.
This is fact and not because of the giddy-excitement over having the band
back in action - Traced In Air is a masterpiece through and through, and for
once, we get a reunion album that is worth a damn and better yet, a
collection of songs that will hold up for generations to come. Simply
monumental.
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Review from www.metal-temple.com
Review by: Yiannis D.
Rating 4.5/5 - Amazing.
Who would expect something like that? The gods of technical (or may I say
Jazz?) Death Metal are back in action after 15 whole years of sleep? And me
being the devil's advocate I will start with some questions. Can they still do
the miracles they did back then? Are the new members able to lift the name
of CYNIC on their shoulders? Isn't Sean Reinert one of the best fucking
drummers out there?
The Miami, Florida based metallers are surely one of the few bands that
managed to earn the respect of probably the whole Metal scene with one
official full-length album. Except for some demos, the work that made CYNIC
what they are, is the 1993 incredible album "Focus", the album that offered
them their godlike status. When they released "Focus", they laid to rest just
to be resurrected 15 years later with some new additions to the line up and a
brand new album through the French label Season Of Mist Records.
For those who had some doubts about the quality of "Traced In Air", I can
say that it is equally good (if not slightly better) as "Focus". Remember those
freaky weird vocal effects? They are still here. Remember the insane drum
parts of Reinert? They are still here. Remember the jazzy guitars that would
give you a small dose of brutality out of the blue and would return to a
melodic line immediately? They are still here, too. And the question is... Is
CYNIC a Metal band or is it something else that is just being loved to death by
metallers around the world? Hmmm, let's stick to the technical Death Metal
term since it will be a pain in the ass trying to categorize CYNIC.
Masvidal's weird vocals - as mentioned above - are still here being the
trademark of CYNIC's sound for one more time, while the "fresh blood"
Kruidenier often interrupts Masvidal's psychedelic monologue for some
screams. "Traced In Air" seems to be one of the best Metal (?!) releases for
2008 and I guess none can say the opposite. Musicians like Reinert and
Malone always know what they are doing. So, ATHEIST reunited,
PESTILENCE reunited, too and CYNIC returned after 15 years with a kick ass
album! Who else is left?
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Review from www.lordsofmetal.nl
Review by: Richard G.
Rating: 99/100
It is 1992. Having done the successful 'Human' album and subsequent tours,
school friends Paul Masvidal (guitar) and Sean Reinert (drums), who have
been playing together for years, decide to leave Chuck Schuldiner and his
Death in order to fully focus on new material for their own band Cynic.
Together with Jason Gobel (guitar) and Sean Malone (bass), the now
legendary 'Focus' album is written and released by Roadrunner Records in
1993.
Even though the road for technical/progressive death metal was more or less
(being) paved by pioneers such as Atheist and Death, Cynic's mix of death
metal and jazz was not that easily accepted by the metal scene. Especially
the computerized clean vocals by Paul Masvidal had many a metal head
scratch his metal head upon hearing 'Focus'. In smaller circles the album did
receive the praise and appreciation it deserved, but we would be well into the
90s before Cynic's pioneering work on 'Focus' would be universally
appreciated and recognized.
While the cult status of the record grew, the band itself had already died a
fairly silent death around 1995. It was not until after the enormous amount
of reunions and revivals of classic acts that Cynic too decided in 2006 that it
was time to reform for a reunion tour. Not surprisingly the tour rekindled the
fire and Masvidal and Reinert started working on new Cynic material again,
which would result in the new album 'Traced In Air', available through Season
Of Mist at the end of October.
The first thing a critical metal head might ask himself is how difficult can a
band make it for itself? Being away from the scene for almost fifteen years,
leaving the legacy that you did with a timeless cult classic like 'Focus', how on
earth can this not turn out into one big disappointment? Well now ladies and
gentlemen it is safe to say that all this scepticism can be shoved aside
because against all expectations 'Traced In Air' has become an absolute
cracker of an album. It sounds as the completely natural and logical follow up
to 'Focus' but survivors Masvidal, Reinert and Malone (the last one only on
record, not live) also show that their musical talent has progressed over the
years. A lot.
In the eight new compositions there is still that combination of technical death
metal riffing and subtle jazz/fusion guitars within a framework of progressive
song structures. However, this all happens in a compositional style that is so
much more fluent and that sounds so much more natural than fifteen years
ago that as a listener, you almost have to strain yourself to hear the
complexity and refinedness of the material. The beautiful melodics are not
only played delightfully, they are also quite touching emotionally. The
sensitive playing style of Masvidal is sensational and a real treat for the ears.
The clean vocals are still computerized, but sound much warmer and sweeter
(because of the higher pitch) than before. The most typical death metal
element, the growling vocal, is also still present, though be it less prominent
and less often. For this we may welcome Dutchman Tymon Kruidenier
(Exivious) on second guitar, who also had a creative say in the album,
providing a number of solos.
After thirty-four minutes, when 'Traced In Air' has come to an end, it feels as
if you have just woken up from a beautiful dream, which you wish had lasted
a lot longer. The big advantage of 'Traced In Air' compared to that dream is
that you can simply press 'play' again. And that is absolutely something which
you can, and maybe even should do. Multiple times. Because the album does
not only tell a story from beginning ('Nunc Fluens'), to end ('Nunc Stans'), it
also forms one big coherent musical piece that is best experienced in its
entirety.
Where the brilliance of 'Focus' was only universally acknowledged until much
later, it is to be hoped that history will not repeat itself with 'Traced In Air'.
Even though nowadays the metal scene contains more fans of the less
ordinary, it is still a bit doubtful whether we are ready for Cynic mark two,
because with the fantastic 'Traced In Air' the Americans (plus Dutchman)
seem to be way ahead of their time once again!
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