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GOROD GET CYNICAL

 Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 4:00pm by

I’m not generally a fan of covers unless it’s something kinda outside the box and the band puts their own spin on it, but I am a fan of Gorod and a fan of Cynic, so it’s hard for me to pass harsh judgment on the French prog-metallers cover of Cynic’s “Textures.” It’s hubris of anyone to even dream of living up to the original, but if it exposes any new fans to Cynic, well, neat. You can stream the track here.

Gorod announced back in January that they were working on a new EP which would include one unspecified cover; I’m assuming this is it. Still don’t know a release date for that EP, although I’m assuming if the band is posting music on their MySpace, it has to lay just over the horizon.

-AR

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  • bucketochicken

    You know, I’m really only at best a lukewarm fan of Gorod, but I have to say that their logo is really excellent, both from just a general “looks cool” standpoint and a more technical, principles of design standpoint. So there’s that.

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.com/ groverXIII

    GODDAMN, why do they have to have MySpace blocked here at work?

  • http://atanamar.blogspot.com/ atanamar

    This sounds completely badass. Nice cover of an incredible song. I loves me some Gorod. I hope they get to tour around the U.S. while they’re here for MDF.

  • Zitloid

    I hate Gorod. With that said, this cover was technically spot on, but boring as hell. There is absolutely no reason for me to ever listen to this over the original.

  • Rachel

    I love the original, personally. I do appreciate their spot-on technicality, though.

  • Deth

    I dig Gorod, I dig Cynic. I don’t dig Gorod covering Cynic. They just aren’t technical enough to pull it off correctly – it’s a note for note copy and doesn’t show any originality.

    • evilfatguy

      You realize that you completely contradicted yourself, right?

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    • Satch Armstrong

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Mritz-Rabson/639118811 Mark Möritz-Rabson

    I’m glad they covered one of my favorite Cynic songs!

  • CrunchyMilk

    Death metal band covers another death metal band? Sounds like more fucking death metal. Who would have guessed?

  • FrostMechanic

    This is pretty fucking cool. Cynic have gotten so much more popular in the past couple of years or so…

    • evilfatguy

      Yeah! It’s crazy how Masvidal was like “no one wants to hear Cynic” for so long and then he was shocked to find out how many people loved his band. I love all of his music.