Cygnosic

CYGNOSIC performing live at Rock House Moscow

CYGNOSIC performing live at Rock House Moscow

Background Information

CYGNOSIC
'Origin	Athens, Greece
Genre	Dark Electro / Industrial / EBM
Years Active	2006 - present
Labels	DWA'Black Rain BLC Productions
Website	www.cygnosic,gr
Band Members	Georg Psaroudakis

CYGNOSIC (pronounced /saɪɡˈnəʊsɪk/ and usually appears in capital letters) is a Greek electronic music project created by the musician and programmer Georg Psaroudakis (Greek: Γεώργιος Ψαρουδάκης). Musically it belongs to the Dark Electro/Industrial/EBM electronic music sub-genres and it has a recognisable sound that consists of characteristic melodic sounds combined with death metal vocals. The band in the studio is a one-man project and it is based in Athens, Greece.

Formation and early years

Cygnosic as a music act first appeared in late 2006 on myspace, presenting tracks and networking with audience. At 2007 the band was discovered by Brandon L. Clark, manager of the Industrial Music Label BLC Productions based on Little Rock, Arkansas and was offered a full length album deal. During 2008 Georg Psaroudakis wrote a full length album and entered the studio to record a full length album with the sound engineer Dimitris Douvras of Lunatech Sounds Studio on mixing and mastering. In early 2009 the debut album "A Deity In Pain" gets released and distributed by Metropolis Records of America. Georg and Dimitris collaborate on various projects ever since. After a year, BLC Productions terminates its operations and releases all of its bands from their contracts. During 2010 Cygnosic starts performing on electronic concerts around Greece while writing the second full length album. While samples of the second album were sent to all major Dark Electro/Industrial labels, Cygnosic gets rediscovered by Jamie Nova, manager of DWA (Digital World Audio, former Deathwatch Asia) electronic music label based in Osaka, Japan and enters DWA's roster. After an introductory EP release, the second full length album entitled "Fallen" gets released in 2011. Cygnosic continues to release albums with DWA ever since and follows an international career in the Dark Electro/Industrial/EBM electronic music sub-genres.

Intermediate to present time

In 2013 the third studio album entitled "Fire And Forget" was released in two versions, a European one by the German label Black Rain and a global one by DWA. Cygnosic starts touring in Russia, United Kingdom and the rest of the Europe in order to promote the album. Later in 2013 a motivational YouTube video was uploaded introducing for the first time the bodybuilder Calum Von Moger working out with Cygnosic music. The video became viral with millions of views and introduced Cygnosic to a widely larger audience beyond the genre. Since then Cygnosic's "Mad Desire" can be found in countless motivational videos online. A single of "Crawl" track gets released shortly after in 12'' picture vinyl and In 2014 Georg Psaroudakis enters the studio to write the fourth album which consists of an electronic one and a metal one which consists of metal version of selected electro tracks picked from all albums, re-recorded from scratch having Georg Psaroudakis playing himself the drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and of course doing the vocals. The electronic one gets released prior to the double disc version as a promotional move in the German Orkus magazine printed in 62,000 copies in its anniversary issue for the 20 years of the magazine. In 2015 an EP named "The Key[s]" is released in vinyl. In 2016 after a series of concerts around Europe, the creation of the fifth album started to take shape in the studio after a sold out crowdfunding campaign and gets released in DigiBook in 2017. From the beginning of its discography since the present day, Cygnosic has done remixes for other bands and was remixed by other bands more than 90 times, has performed in concerts around the world and appeared in many big festivals like WGT (Leipzig Germany), Summer Darkness (Utrecht Netherlands), Resistanz (Sheffield UK) and more, sharing the stage with dozens of big acts of the genre.

Discography

Studio albums

• A Deity In Pain (2009)
• Fallen (2011)
• Fire And Forget (2013)
• Cygnosic (2015) which consists of 2 albums: Disc/LP A: Pitch Black (Electronic album) DIsc/LP B: Snow White (Metal Versions of selected Cygnosic tracks)
• Siren (2017)

EPs and singles

• One Step Forward (2011)
• Crawl (2014)
• The Key[s] (2016)

Reissues of sold out albums

• A Deity In Pain Reborn (2012)
• Fire And Forget Memorial Edition (2015)
• Fire And Forget Extended Version (2017)
• Cygnosic Extended Edition - Electronic disc only (2018)

Videography

Music videos

• As We Approach The End (2013)
• This Is The Night (2013)
• Light (2014)
• The Key (2016)
• Blindfold - White (2016)

Miscellaneous facts about the act

• Origin of the band's name: As mentioned in interviews by Georg Psaroudakis in the German music magazines Zillo and Sonic Seducer, Cygnosic was originally named "Psygnosis" which in free translation in the Greek language means "The knowledge or the soul" but it appeared already copyrighted by the former very well known game development company Psygnosis so it was decided to modify the name to Cygnosic than change it completely.
• Promo Sales: The Pitch Black disc of the self titled album "Cygnosic" was released for free as a gift in the German Orkus music magazine printed in 62,000 copies.
• Numbers: Cygnosic appears to be by far the biggest export of Greece on its kind, in the Dark Electro/Industrial genre in terms of airplay and listeners in Spotify, YouTube and other similar services.
• Mad Desire: Mad Desire, one of the most successful tracks of Cygnosic is a cover of an Italo Disco song of the 80s.
  

External links

CYGNOSIC Official Website

CYGNOSIC on Facebook

References

Category:Cygnosic Category:Music Category:Electronic music Category:Ebm Category:Dark electro Category:Industrial music