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Focus (Cynic album)

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Focus is the debut album by Cynic, released September 14, 1993 through Roadrunner Records. [1]

76 relations: Accent (music), Adrian Belew, Aletheian, AllMusic, Aruna (singer), Atheist (band), Audio engineer, Audio mastering, Audio mixing, Bass guitar, Behold... The Arctopus, Between the Buried and Me, Blast beat, Cannibal Corpse, Chapman Stick, Chris Kringel, Chuck Schuldiner, Cynic (band), Death (metal band), Death metal, Deathcore, Decrepit Birth, Drum kit, Dynamics (music), Electric guitar, Electronic drum, Florida, George William Russell, Guitar, Guitar synthesizer, Human (Death album), Jason Gobel, Jazz fusion, Keyboard instrument, Keyboardist, King Crimson, Loudwire, Lyrics, Martyr (band), Meditation, Metal Storm (webzine), Metalcore, MIDI, Morrisound Recording, New Age, Obscura (band), Paramahansa Yogananda, Paul Masvidal, Philip Kubicki Factor Bass, Pickup (music technology), ..., Progressive metal, Record producer, Remix, Richard Lloyd (guitarist), Roadrunner Records, Robert Fripp, Robert Venosa, Roland Corporation, Scale the Summit, Sceptic (band), Scott Burns (record producer), Sean Malone, Sean Reinert, Singing, Spiral Architect, Sputnikmusic, Steinberger, Synthesizer, Technical death metal, Television (band), Textures (band), Tom Verlaine, Townsquare Media, Traced in Air, Veil of Maya, Vocoder. Expand index (26 more) »

Accent (music)

In music, an accent is an emphasis, stress, or stronger attack placed on a particular note or set of notes, or chord, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark.

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Adrian Belew

Adrian Belew (born Robert Steven Belew, December 23, 1949) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Aletheian

Aletheian are a Christian progressive/melodic death metal band.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Aruna (singer)

Aruna Beth Abrams (born January 16, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, DJ, producer, and pianist.

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Atheist (band)

Atheist is a death metal band from Florida, founded in 1988 by vocalist/guitarist Kelly Shaefer, guitarist Rand Burkey, bassist Roger Patterson, and drummer Steve Flynn.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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Audio mixing

Audio mixing is the process by which multiple sounds are combined into one or more channels.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Behold... The Arctopus

Behold… The Arctopus is an American avant-garde metal band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2001.

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Between the Buried and Me

Between the Buried and Me is an American progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Blast beat

A blast beat is a drum beat that originated in hardcore punk and grindcore, and is often associated with certain styles of extreme metal, namely black metal and death metal,Adam MacGregor, PCP Torpedo by Agoraphobic Nosebleed review, Dusted, June 11, 2006.

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Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American Brutal death metal band from Buffalo, New York, now based in Tampa, Florida.

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Chapman Stick

The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s.

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Chris Kringel

Chris Kringel is an American bass player.

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Chuck Schuldiner

Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner (May 13, 1967 – December 13, 2001) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Cynic (band)

Cynic is an American band.

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Death (metal band)

Death was an American death metal band from Orlando, Florida, founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner.

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Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

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Deathcore

Deathcore is an extreme metal fusion genre that combines musical elements of death metal and metalcore and sometimes hardcore punk.

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Decrepit Birth

Decrepit Birth is an American technical death metal band from Santa Cruz, California.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Dynamics (music)

In music, the dynamics of a piece is the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Electronic drum

An electronic drum, also known as electric drums, digital drums, or electronic percussion, is a modern electronic musical instrument, a special type of synthesizer or sampler, primarily designed to serve as an alternative to an acoustic drum kit or other percussion instruments.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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George William Russell

George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitar synthesizer

A guitar synthesizer (also guitar synth, alternatively guitar-synthesizer, guitar-synth, guitar/synthesizer, guitar/synth, g-synth or synth guitar) is any one of a number of musical instrument systems that allow a guitar player to play synthesizer sound.

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Human (Death album)

Human is the fourth studio album by American death metal band Death, released on October 22, 1991, by Relativity Records.

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Jason Gobel

Jason Göbel is an American musician, engineer and University lecturer.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Loudwire

Loudwire is an American online magazine that covers hard rock and heavy metal music.

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Lyrics

Lyrics are words that make up a song usually consisting of verses and choruses.

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Martyr (band)

Martyr is a Canadian death metal band from Trois-Rivières, Québec.

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Meditation

Meditation can be defined as a practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.

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Metal Storm (webzine)

Metal Storm (also known as MetalStorm.net, MetalStorm.ee, MetalStorm.eu or just MS) is a webzine specializing in various forms of heavy metal music.

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Metalcore

Metalcore is a fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk.

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MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.

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Morrisound Recording

Morrisound Recording is an audio recording facility in Temple Terrace, Florida, owned and operated by brothers Jim and Tom Morris.

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New Age

New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.

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Obscura (band)

Obscura are a German technical death metal band from Landshut.

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda (পরমহংস যোগানন্দ.) (5 January 18937 March 1952), born Mukunda Lal Ghosh (মুকুন্দলাল ঘোষ.), was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of Indians and westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization Yogoda Satsanga Society of India and Self-Realization Fellowship.

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Paul Masvidal

Paul Albert Masvidal (born January 20, 1971) is the guitarist, singer and a founding member of the band Cynic and previously led the alternative rock band Æon Spoke.

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Philip Kubicki Factor Bass

The Philip Kubicki Factor Bass is a brand of electric bass guitar made in America and sold factory-direct.

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Pickup (music technology)

A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.

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Progressive metal

Progressive metal (sometimes known as prog metal or technical metal) is a fusion genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock which combines the loud "aggression".

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Remix

A remix is a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item.

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Richard Lloyd (guitarist)

Richard Lloyd (born October 25, 1951) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band Television.

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Roadrunner Records

Roadrunner Records is an American-based Dutch major record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal and hard rock bands.

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Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.

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Robert Venosa

Robert Venosa (January 21, 1936 - August 9, 2011) was an American artist who resided in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

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Roland Corporation

is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software.

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Scale the Summit

Scale the Summit is an American instrumental progressive metal band based out of Houston, Texas.

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Sceptic (band)

Sceptic is a Polish death metal band from Kraków, Poland, founded in 1994 by Jacek Hiro.

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Scott Burns (record producer)

Scott Burns is an American computer engineer and an ex-music producer of death metal music, resident at Morrisound Recording studio in Tampa, Florida in late 1980s and 1990s.

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Sean Malone

Sean Malone is an American musician who plays primarily fretless bass guitar and Chapman Stick.

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Sean Reinert

Sean Reinert (born May 27, 1971) is the drummer of Æon Spoke.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Spiral Architect

Spiral Architect was a progressive metal band from Oslo, Norway.

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Sputnikmusic

Sputnikmusic is a music community website offering music criticism and music news alongside features commonly associated with wiki-style websites.

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Steinberger

Steinberger is a series of distinctive electric guitars and bass guitars, designed and originally manufactured by Ned Steinberger.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Technical death metal

Technical death metal (also known as tech-death, progressive death metal, or prog-death) is a musical subgenre of death metal that began and developed in the early- to mid-1990s, with particular focus on challenging, demanding instrumental skill and complex songwriting.

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Television (band)

Television is an American rock band from New York City formed in 1973.

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Textures (band)

Textures were a Dutch progressive metal band, formed in 2001.

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Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine (born Thomas Miller, December 13, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman of the New York City rock band Television.

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Townsquare Media

Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Traced in Air

Traced in Air is the second full-length album by the progressive metal band Cynic.

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Veil of Maya

Veil of Maya is an American metalcore band, formed in Chicago, Illinois by members Marc Okubo and Sam Applebaum in 2004.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice encoder) is a category of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, voice transformation, etc.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(Cynic_album)

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