All Cynic Articles
Jeremy Wagner of Broken Hope Picks His Five Favorite Albums of the Year
Leading up to the end of the year, Revolver has asked some of our favorite artists to pick their Top Albums of 2012 and tell us why each record rules. Here, Jeremy Wagner (pictured left), guitarist of the death-metal band Broken Hope, selects his faves. 5. Fear Factory, The Industrialist “Dino [...]
Review: Cynic — Carbon-Based Anatomy
It’s respectable to try something new in an established field. To do otherwise is to defer to comfort, and there’s nothing bold about that. Which is why it’s impossible to hate Miami prog-death metallers Cynic. With both their vocoder-heavy 1993 debut Focus and their spacey 2008 comeback record Traced in Air, Cynic have stretched the [...]
Review: Obscura – Omnivium
Perhaps no subgenre of metal varies in quality as much as technical death metal. For every beautifully composed and tastefully written display of savage art, there are four releases of self-indulgent guitar noodling. Obscura’s previous release, 2009′s Cosmogenesis, fell much closer to the latter category than the former. On Omnivium, however, Obscura have created an album [...]
