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Topic ClosedCynic vs. Animals as Leaders
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2011 at 18:12
Wow that is a tough one, I really can't vote...for once I may have to say "like them equally"

If you like Cynic look into Atheist. They are not as jazzy and certainly not as mellow....more technical than progressive, but awesome stuff and still jazzy influenced. At least look into "Elements" by them!
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2011 at 18:14
Originally posted by Bonnek Bonnek wrote:


I don't like neither of them, clinical shred music.
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Ha to each their own, though I don't quite get that for Cynic.
I mean yeah AAL is deff just epic riffery and djent and shredding (though IMO done much better than...well almost everyone else who tries) but Cynic?
Even Focus is not as insane and their most recent EP is just beautiful, ethereal music. : )
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Points: 166178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2011 at 18:17
Animals As Leaders for me.
 
Nothing I've heard by Cynic did much for me.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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Points: 2866 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2011 at 18:27
Animuls as leadurs
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Points: 13382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2011 at 03:56
Cynic are not clinical shred music, that goes for all of their albums. I personally don't even consider them that "technical" either, as that would insinuate all out complexity, which I don't think they are. 
Animals As Leaders can get a bit clinical, but the focus on the writing and the melodies ("songwriting" if you will) elevates the quality quite substantially IMO above most that could have the clinical shred music label. And as for Cynic, their songs are too well written I think, for that label to apply.  

I'll vote Cynic but I like AAL as well.  
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Points: 67 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2011 at 09:11
Anybody who thinks Cynic is a shred band probably hasn't actually listened to them much, most of their guitar solo's are reliant on playing around with harmonics.
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