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Artist: Cynic
Release: Focus
Label: Roadrunner
Designer: Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert (?)
Release Date: September 14, 1993

In honor of the band reuniting, recording, and still being my favorite band, here we have Cynic’s Focus. Paul and Sean are band members that are credited for the re-issue are, which is the same as the original art, so I’m not exactly sure if they did the original. They may have just produced the original files for the re-issue.

Anyways, I never liked this cover at all when I first bought it. It looked too psychedelic and colorful; it smeared by cred sitting next to my Metallica and Megadeth discographies. But I suppose their mix of death metal and jazz warrants such a stoner-doom-kinda-symmetrical spiral ink art image.