CYNIC

CYNIC - "We Never Saw It As Paving Any Road"

Masterful Magazine ( www.masterful-magazine.com ) has recently published an interview with CYNIC guitarist/vocalist Paul Masvidal, conducted by Belgium based scribe Wouter Roemers. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Masterful Magazine: Both yourself, DEATH, PESTILENCE and ATHEIST were really pushing the envelope of the death metal genre back in those days. Do you feel that you were all a bit misunderstood back then, while you were essentially paving the way for
the technical metal genre, that would blossom years later?

Masvidal: "We had our share of fans, but it was an incredibly difficult road. Not many people understood what we were doing. We were creating this music without any result in mind, and that's why it worked. We never saw it as paving any road. We just created music that we enjoyed. Curiously it made an impact, and that we're grateful for."

Check out the full interview here. http://www.masterful-magazine.com/interview.php?wyw=498

Long-defunct Florida-based band Cynic, whose 1993 album Focus is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal, has confirmed plans to embark a reunion tour in the spring/summer of 2007, beginning with possible U.S. warm-up performances and culminating in a number of festival appearances across Europe. The reunion lineup is as follows:
Paul Masvidal - vocals/guitar,
Sean Reinert - drums/keys,
Tony Teegarden - vocals/ keyboards,
Chris Kringel - bass,
Santiago Dobles – guitar.