Dangerous Rhetoric 70: Paul Masvidal

In this episode we spoke with a living musical legend, Paul Masvidal of the band Cynic, whose extensive career of over three decades includes contributing to the very founding of death metal and progressive metal as well as scoring music for TV. While still in high school, Paul befriended and toured with Chuck Schuldiner and the band Death, playing guitar on the record Human (1992) and then releasing the record Focus (1993) with his band Cynic; these became two of the most groundbreaking and iconic metal albums of all time. But Cynic was not received well in the beginning, breaking up shortly after until their impactful return in 2008. We spoke with Paul about his unusual career path; his close bandmates Sean Reinert and Sean Malone (who passed away within 11 months of each other in 2020 and 2021) and their loss; being gay in the metal world; spirituality, and even a bit about aliens.

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