You need this album !!! I know it's about 19 years old (a couple of months older than me) but this album is truly essential. Even if you care little for Metal, give this a try. In 1993 some crazy guys in Florida thought it might be cool to combine Death Metal guitars, bouncy jazz bass, pummeling tech. drumming, harsh growling, "robotic" vocoder-ed singing & atmospheric keyboard. Damn they were right.
Veil of Maya kicks things off with pulsing bass, vicious purpose, calm sections of ambience & a freakish (but short) solo. The album carries on in the same wildly experimental & technical fashion. Expect to hear harsh Thrash, synthesized spoken word, swirling Prog. Death, mournful Metal tinged Jazz & even a synthy organ to close the album. Through all this a prevalent sense of melody keeps the whole journey strangely accessible. Sadly it took a break-up, reunion & a space of 15 years for Cynic to follow this Impeccable Alien Metal Epic up with 2008's
Traced in Air, however the 8 tracks from the original pressing of Focus are far better than some other bands' entire discographies.
Best Tracks: Veil of Maya, Celestial Voyage, I'm But a Wave to... & How Could I
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