Album Rating: 3.0

true lloyd i mean with his updated fancy rating

Album Rating: 3.0

This is probably one of those albums which everyone wanted so hard to like, but couldn't because of various things. For me, the band here sound tired on various songs, as if they left their energy back on "Carbon-Based Anatomy". Some of the songs are really disjointed too, feeling like the band tried to shove as many experimental sounds as possible into a five-minute song. It doesn't really feel like a logical progression on songs such as "Infinite shapes" and "Holy fallout".



Yet I do like it somewhat, if only because of how harmonic Masdival's voice and guitar playing is. Sometimes it's so harmonic that it feels more like a bubbly pop song than a progressive/experimental one, but because of that I felt like I was nodding my head to the beats and rhythms of the album's two highlights, "True hallucination speak" and "The Lion's roar". Not saying that Cynic should ditch the whole jazz fusion/prog metal/avant-garde thing, but if they carried on writing songs like the aforementioned (in this same paragraph obviously), then they could work on it so the next album is more cohesive and fluent as a result.

Album Rating: 4.0

I hope they continue this style for sure.

Transition albums always have the potential to suffer from disjointed songwriting, and this is definitely suffers in places. I really like the first half of the record.

Album Rating: 2.5

i hope not

Album Rating: 4.0

The tagline on this sound off confuses me...nonetheless, wasn't this completely the album you expected based off the evolution of Focus and Traced in Air? I think the majority of the band's continued fanbase will get a lot out of this one, it's definitely better than average...surprised at the sheer lack of rating numbers it has compared to the other two LPs.

Yeh I don't understand the review's summary

there are some lyrics in True Hallucination Speak that go "snap crackle and pop"

Album Rating: 4.0

"Pop, snap, crackle and pop" is a reference to the sound in ones ears when they smoke DMT. Keeping that in mind while listening, makes the lyric really inspiring if you've experimented with the drug.

I love this album. I can't help but think that people who don't like this are only against it because of the lack of extreme metal. Did anyone expect this to be death metal, considering their recent trajectory? They haven't even been remotely dm since Focus. I don't see this as a departure, at all. It's a logical step after TIA and CBA. In no way a "Heritage"(even though that album gets more shit than it deserves).

there are some lyrics in True Hallucination Speak that go "snap crackle and pop"

lol keep in mind i was the one who wrote the review

lol duh doy, I was telling that fool guy!

ohh perhaps i am the fool then

Album Rating: 4.0

I heard that this was 666 m/ -the / and at least one 6.

I love this album. I can't help but think that people who don't like this are only against it because of the lack of extreme metal.

As much as a flop this album was, The Lion's Roar still remains in my top 5 songs of the year atm

Then u need to find better music from 2014, friend ; )

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Oi, leave him alone Omaha!

just that song is the only thing on here worth any praise.

Still, 2014 has been great so far, with the new Triptykon, The War on Drugs, Behemoth, Artificial Brain and Lord Mantis just to name a few...

Snap crackle pop

Album Rating: 1.5

This wasn't a fun listen in the slightest.