EXIVIOUS - featuring members of CYNIC & TEXTURES

EXIVIOUS announces debut album, to be released in May 2009.

Fusionmetal - A relatively new and unexplored genre in the world of metal. Exivious marks a first to truly marry jazzfusion with metal into a coherent new style. Featuring members of legendary US prog band CYNIC and Dutch metallers TEXTURES, Exivious isn't an over the top math metal band and certainly isn't a loungy jazz combo either. But expect everything in between!

With a jazzfusion backbone Exivious uses freaky metal riffs to decorate their organic eruption of free improvisations and complex rhythms. Guitarist Tymon comments: "We finally managed to transform a vision I had a long time ago into 9 intense and fiery songs. There's an immense amount of information in there that will definitely take more than one spin in your CD player to comprehend!"

The band will release the album independently to preserve 100% creative freedom. This is not only evident in their music but also in the artwork. Their self titled debut will appear in a limited 1000 numbered copies, each single copy bundled with its own unique artwork.

An mp3 stream of the song “Waves Of Thought” is available on the Exivious website and myspace now!.

Exivious is:
Tymon (Cynic) – guitar
Michel Nienhuis (ex-Sengaia) – guitar
Robin Zielhorst (Cynic, ex-Blue Man Group) - bass
Stef Broks (Textures) – drums

www.exivious.net
www.myspace.com/exivious

Thought I'd post this here, a few people would probably be interested...

I've preordered my copy, seriously amazing is the song which they've currently got up, and there's another and a video on the way according to Tymon who posted this on the Sevenstring.org and Planet X forums. Picture Allan Holdsworth playing along with instrumental Cynic, and it'll give an idea of the awesomeness of this. Or just listen to the song.

Just pre-ordered it. Too bad our dollar is so weak. It'll definately be worth it, amazing stuff.

Yeah, works out expensive, but indeed, well worth it.

It's an amazing album, both guitarist play amazingly, and being a drummer myself I'm quite excited about the drums as well, but I'd have to admit that my personal favorite for this amazing album is the bass! damn the bass!