Kindly Bent to Free Us is the third studio album by the progressive metal band Cynic. It was released on February 14, 2014, and is the final Cynic album with Sean Reinert, who left the band in September 2015. Read more on Last.fm.
There are three artists called Cynic.
1. Formed in Florida, United States in 1987, Cynic is a progressive metal band that recorded a few thrash metal demos before moving to a highly complex form of jazz-fusion influenced experimental/avant-garde death metal, manifested in their seminal album, 1993's Focus, which for over a decade was the band's only official release.
Cynic disbanded in 1994 due to artistic differences while working on their second album, but regrouped in 2007 to perform a series of shows. Read more on Last.fm
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Cynic, but this release seems to push them more into Dream Theater territory—metaphors too thinly veiled and odd production choices make “Kindly Bent to Free Us” more distracting than enjoyable or provocative.