15 years after their last studio release, a famously elusive metal metal band with an enormously influential debut has followed up. That's right, boys and girls, it's the rabidly anticipated comeback album from…Cynic.

On 1993's Focus, some Florida-based musicians (including guitarist Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinart, both formerly of Death) demolished four or five musical boundaries to pioneer a metal/jazz/progressive/electronic sound that the rest of the world is still catching up to. After splitting up to form Gordian Knot, Æon Spoke and various other projects, Cynic are now one of the only bands in history to release a reunion album that captures the band at the top of its game. (more…)

Cynic, "Evolutionary Sleeper"

 

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Cynic, "Integral Birth"

 

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While these dates are currently only being advertised as CHILDREN OF BODOM and BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, Metal Injection can confirm that the BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will be joining the two other metal titans for what will sure be a front-to-back amazing lineup. Here are the tour dates:

September 11 - Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live!
September 12 - Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
September 13 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
September 14 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
September 16 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
September 18 - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
September 19 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
September 20 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
September 21 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre
September 22 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
September 23 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox at The Market
September 25 - Magna, UT @ The Great Saltair
September 26 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
September 27 - Kansas City, MO @ Beaumont Club
September 28 - Sauget, IL @ Pop’s
September 30 - Saint Paul, MN @ Myth
October 1 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
October 2 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave Eagles Club
October 3 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
October 4 - Pontiac, MI @ Clutch Cargo’s
October 6 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
October 7 - Rochester, NY @ Water St. Music Hall
October 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
October 9 - New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
October 10 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium w/ Obituary

Headbangers Blog has posted a new audio podcast with BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME lead guitarist, and all around awesome dude, Paul Waggoner. Fresh off the Progressive Nation tour package along with Opeth, Dream Theater and 3, HBB catches up with Paul during BTBAM's European tour with Meshuggah and Dillinger Escape Plan. Paul discusses "the band’s efforts to remain original, the difference between experimentation and self-indulgence, the upcoming DVD and the next studio record" which Paul hints will be a full-on concept record.

Listen to that interview here.

Fresh off the Progressive Nation Tour, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME have announced that they will film their August 2nd concert at Rocket Town in Nashville, Tennessee for a forthcoming DVD. The band had this to say about it:

"We will be playing two sets (one 'Colors' set, and one 'other songs' set)," the band says. "Soon a website will be available for all of you [the fans] to vote on which songs you want to hear and see for the second set."

"For our DVD show, we are going to do a limited run of 'Colors' t-shirts. We want to do a shirt for each song (eight shirts total)… We want YOU to design these shirts for us. Send any ideas or art to btbamdvd@gmail.com. We are very excited to see what you all come up with!"

This sounds super exciting! I got the chance to catch the dudes on the Progressive Nation tour and they are tighter than a pre-pubescent girl. I'm already excited! Make sure to check out our recent feature on the band to get a taste of how sick this DVD will be.

> DANZIG has announced that he will be taking out DIMMU BORGIR, MOONSPELL, WINDS OF PLAGUE and SKELETONWITCH as part of the 20th Anniversary Blackest of the Black tour. The tour will cover all of the U.S. and some parts of Canada and is expected to kick off in October.

> SEPULTURA have posted a video teaser for their upcoming "A Clockwork Orange" theme album. The album is expected to be released later this year.

> TERROR have posted their new track "Let Me Sink". The track is a cut off their upcoming Century Media debut The Damned, The Shamed, in stores on June 10th.

> For all you mellow bodies, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME vocalist Tommy Rogers has a new side-project of mellow music called JACOB ROGERS. Song samples available on the band's Myspace page