We're incredibly excited to bring you this exclusive premiere from legendary progressive metal act Cynic. Having spent over four years crafting their third full-length album, 'Kindly Bent To Free Us,' ...

Since the release of 'Focus' in 1993, Floridian technical death metal innovators Cynic have held onto the status of being an "elite" band. Few underground acts have been bestowed with such critical ...

This article originally ran in the November 2012 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. The cynic looks out the window and across the river at the great ...

The cynic wants to believe. But far too much has happened, and inspiration is no longer enough. The cynic will need to be convinced. This article originally ran in the June 2008 issue of Esquire. To ...

Paul Masvidal has played in some of America’s most intense heavy metal bands for more than 20 years. Visit his Echo Park home, however, and it’s clear he’s finally found peace. The 43-year-old ...

Carbon-Based Anatomy comes out Nov. 11 on Season of Mist. PM: Well, it's funny you mention that, because it wasn't, but that was a huge record for us when it came out. I remember I lived on that ...

"The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability," Rick Bayan muses on his bile-coated Web site The Cynic's Sanctuary, a home for "disgruntled ...

Ambrose Bierce’s The Cynic’s Word Book could be considered one of the many precursors for snarky internet listicles. It was originally written as a series of 88 newspaper columns for The Wasp (where ...

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