Kindly Bent to Free Us is the third studio album by the progressive metal band Cynic.

It was released on February 18, 2014, and is the final Cynic album with Sean Reinert, who left the band in September 2015[10] and died on January 24, 2020,[11] as well as the final Cynic album with Sean Malone, who died on December 9, 2020.

Masvidal told the Irish magazine Molten: It's almost like, I don't know how to explain it, but if I had to put it in a box it's more sci-fi, futuristic and alien but at the same time very song-driven.

We've had a lot of time to let this material develop and gestate, and it finally feels ready to be unleashed on the world.

I've been in trio mode with Malone and Masvidal flushing out a zillion and one details, and couldn't be happier about what's happening with these songs.