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Cynic (Music)
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This page is about the band. If you were looking for a trope about cynics, see The Cynic. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: None of their albums sound too much like each other. Traced in Air was a bit mellower and more upbeat, with Harsh Vocals in a less prominent role (the remix cuts most of them out entirely), and Kindly Bent to Free Us is really just a straight-up Progressive Rock album with relatively little metal influence remaining. Focus and Kindly Bent are both somewhat presaged by the demos and EPs that preceded each of them, respectively, however. | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art | |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: Re-Traced uses some of the same paintings as Traced in Air, but reduced to line drawings. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Ironically they are on the idealistic end, despite what their name may tell you. (The Greek philosophical school of Cynicism was also quite idealistic, however, and that seems to have been the source of the band's name, rather than the modern understanding of cynicism.) | |
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The Man Behind the Man | |
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The Man Behind the Man: Sean Malone was this for a very long time following the reunion. He did eventually start touring with the band again from 2015 onwards. Sean's reasoning for not touring was his teaching and family commitments. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: Sean Reinert, Tymon Kruidiner, Robin Zielhorst and Jason Gobel have all made this very, very public. Oh dear. Death's "The Philosopher" is a Take That! song about Paul written after this happened between him and Chuck Schuldiner; based on the lyrics, it appears that Chuck saw him as an annoying rich kid who thought that he knew everything but really just wanted to be John McLaughlin a little too much.. Paul did attend Chuck's funeral in 2001, however, and even helped out with the Death to All tribute tours. He also denied that him and Chuck had any problems for a very long time. Either he's lying or he's got his head in the clouds, or possibly a combination of the two. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Traced in Air begins with the song "Nunc fluens" and ends with "Nunc stans", which are two philosophical views on the nature of time. See Gratuitous Latin below for further explanation. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Traced in Air Remixed (2019) - Exactly What It Says on the Tin; remixed version of second album with clearer bass parts, plus some instrument parts that were left off the original album, but also with Harsh Vocals turned down in the mix or completely mixed out | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: Paul Masivdal is the only constant member. Sean Reinert used to count as this too, until he very publicly severed all personal and professional ties with Paul. Sean Malone may count as this as well considering the only time he hasn't officially been in the band since he joined was during the Re-Traced era. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: A large part of what made Focus unique at the time it was released was how effectively it was able to do this - it shifts on a dime from old-school tech death to a weird, futuristic mix of prog rock, ambient, fusion, Latin jazz, new age, and whatever else they felt like playing; and it somehow pulls this off without the transitions feeling forced or sudden. | |
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Foreign Language Title/Gratuitous Latin: "Nunc fluens" and "Nunc stans", which translate literally as "flowing now" and "abiding now", respectively. More broadly, they refer to two different views on the nature of time, as mentioned above: the former suggests that time is eternal, without beginning or ending; while the latter suggests that time does not even exist, and that distinctions between past, present, and future have either fallen away or never existed in the first place. They both originate from the Anicius Boëthius quote "Nunc fluens facit tempus, nunc stans facit aeternitatum" ("The now that passes produces time; the now that remains produces eternity", a quote from The Consolation of Philosophy). | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: Re-Traced has Lighter and Softer remakes of four songs from Traced in Air, with acoustic instruments in a more prominent role, but ironically, also more influence from Electronic Music. | |
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Recut | |
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Recut: Traced in Air Remixed is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The Harsh Vocals are removed, but depending who you ask, the instrumental clarity is improved, particularly that of the bass. | |
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Mistaken for Romance | |
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Mistaken for Romance: Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert. Just because they're both gay doesn't mean they're attracted to each other... | |
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Genre Mashup | |
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Genre Mashup: A mixture of death metal, progressive rock, jazz fusion, ambient, and Latin jazz. Some later releases also add a fair amount of influence from Electronic Music. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Re-Traced, though not in a bad way. Lyrically Cynic tend more towards positive lyrics about philosophy and spirituality than many of their peers. Focus was this when compared to the demos, which were jazzy technical death/thrash. Focus was just barely death metal and was mostly just prog with a very heavy Mahavishnu influence. Traced in Air was this when compared to Focus, for that matter, and Kindly Bent to Free Us seems to be this compared to both of their previous two full-lengths. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: Traced in Air: "The Space for This" | |
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Technical Death Metal | |
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Technical Death Metal | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: The lyrics. All of them. | |
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Design Student's Orgasm | |
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Design Student's Orgasm: From Focus onwards, the band's album artwork has consisted of various paintings by the psychedelic artist Robert Venosa. It's quite possibly some of the most colorful art you'll ever see in a metal album. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: "Textures", an instrumental jazz fusion song on an album full of Mood Whiplash-inducing Technical Death Metal. Later on, their sound got too gentle for this trope to apply much any longer. | |
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Lead Drummer | |
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Lead Drummer, Lead Bassist: Apart from Masvidal, who has been the only constant member, Sean Reinert and Sean Malone are probably the best known members of the band, owing in large part to their skill at their respective instruments and the central role drums and bass play in technical death metal (and in jazz, which heavily influences all of Cynic's music). | |
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Soprano and Gravel | |
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Soprano and Gravel: Paul and Tony Teegarden on Focus and Paul and Tymon Krudiner on Traced in Air. A very unusual example, given the synthesized nature of most of Paul's vocals. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song/Fake-Out Fade-Out: Done with "Integral Birth" into "The Unknown Guest". The former fades almost completely out, then the latter starts fading in. | |
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