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Album of the Week # 12 - Cynic - Focus

  • 30-10-2007 8:48pm
    #1
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uprl2qZJtA


    Incredible band, mixing Death Metal with Jazz Fusion, Prog and Electronic elements, their only album, Focus, was one of the most original albums ever. It was so vastly different to anything out there at the time, and still today, few bands have come as close to doing anything as radical.

    Well recommended.


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  • #2
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    About bloody time. A classic album, truly timeless. I've owned it for a few years now and I still get something new from it every single time I listen to it. There is nothing on earth like it.


  • #3
    Undergod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    An unbelievably mindblowing piece of work. Give me a while to come up with a fuller post to do it justice...


  • #4
    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    just ordered it on Amazon on the strength of above looking forward to it...one of those that just passed me by at the time !


  • #5
    Pugsley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    Fantastic piece of work, always prefared Athiest personally, but that doesnt take away from a superb album.


  • #6
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,635 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Great album. Yet another band I was informed of through boards.ie :)

    Just a pity that they didn't release any more material. Anyone know if Portal and Æon Spoke are worth getting into?


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  • #7
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    It might be worth posting their new song too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MQJTVYwVw


  • #8
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Y'know, I'm still not as gone on that song at all. It would not have stood up against the material on Focus, for instance. And I thought that when I first heard it as well. It just lacks some necessity.


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