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All members were remarkably skilled players of their respective instruments despite their age (all four members were 23 years old during recording). Guitarist/vocalist Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinert had already cut their teeth back in 1991, when they joined Chuck Schuldiner's Death to record the seminal Human. Certain similarities can be heard between the two albums, although Focus only ra ...

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After years of being hailed as a promising newcomer from the proliferous death metal scene of Florida, Cynic collectively mustered its whole creative energy and musical skill to record Focus. The result was an album combining their longlasting love of death metal to other growing influences, notably those of fusion jazz. Instead of choosing the brutal and hard-hitting approach to metal like most of their contemporaries ...

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The original 1993 release has 8 tracks with a total runtime of 36:14. "Veil of Maya" - (5:23) "Celestial Voyage" - (3:40) "The Eagle Nature" - (3:30) "Sentiment" - (4:23) "I'm But A Wave To..." - (5:30) "Uroboric Forms" - (3:32) "Textures" - (4:42) "How Could I?" - (5:29) All songs written by Cynic. ...

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As mentioned before, Focus certainly draws from remarkably different popular music styles: death metal, fusion jazz and progressive rock or progressive metal. Some groups and artists whose influence can clearly be heard from Cynic's music include the adventurous, "intelligent" death metal of Death; the interlocking twin-guitar work of King Crimson; the visceral jazz-rock fusion of Mahavishnu Orchestra and Allan Holdsworth; and previous fusers of jazz ...

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