July 6th, 2023 Le Poisson Rouge NYC.

CYNIC celebrated their 30th anniversary of 'Focus' by playing the whole album. Joining Paul Masvidal on stage are guitarist Max Phelps (Exist, Death to All), bassist Brandon Giffin (The Faceless, The Zenith Passage), drummer Matt Lynch (Nova Collective, Intronaut) and keyboardist Zeke Kaplan. They'll also paid tribute to late members Sean Reinert and Sean Malone.

As soon as the band’s entourage pulled out the banners the crowd erupted and they stayed that way thru their set. The band also played one of their newest songs “In a multiverse where atoms sing” off their latest Ascension Codes.

'Ascension Codes' can be ordered at the Season of Mist E-Shop, the CYNIC Bandcamp, and official CYNIC shop. The album can be streamed/downloaded HERE.

For more info : https://listen.cyniconline.com/bio

ATHEIST also celebrating their 30th anniversary performed songs from their first three albums, including some that they haven't performed in decades. Man how did I sleep on this band back in the day.. They Killed it with their thrash metal style mixing in some funky fusion. I ran out and bought Piece of Time (1990) , Unquestionable Presence (1991) and Elements (1993) the next day. The stage show was non stop movement, except for the Jagerbomb shot.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/AtheistBand/

Hailing from Long Island was Death Metal band Hierarchy providing a heavy set. So heavy the drummer smashed through his kick drum skin and had a short break to replace it!

For more info: https://hierarchyband666.bandcamp.com/music

I always say get to the show early to support the opening acts and more then half the crowd did for Kevin Hufnagel. Playing an acoustic set ,Kevin let the guitar do all the singing .

For more info: https://kevinhufnagel.bandcamp.com