Cynic News: Album Review: Cynic - Traced in Air

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Talk about a long awaited comeback. Cynic burst upon the nascent death metal scene in 1993 with _Focus_, an album owing more to prog than death but with one foot firmly implanted in the extreme metal genre. When Roadrunner quietly allowed the album to slip out of print a few years later, the legend only grew as battered copies of the CD traded on eBay for inflated prices, and the MP3s became a prized commodity on file sharing networks. Sean Reinert and Sean Malone went on to make names for themselves as chops-packing guns for hire in ensembles as varied...