On January 17, 2008, Cynic resumed musical activity and Paul Masvidal said he wanted to complete the project after the Reunion Tour.

Everyone can expect something stylistically the same as Focus but more upbeat, energetic and most important of all, pretty god damn brutal!

I mean we're gonna mix in Bullacake by Niche Dexplicit into one of our songs but will be using real scary riffs and solos and more savage growling as well as Paul's robotic vocals and keyboarding.

The album is an intensely concentrated mosaic of internal and external energies, from the deepest peace to the purest aggression.

Besides Reinert and I, Tymon brought some new life force and magic to the record with fierce growling and poetic guitar sensibilities.

Malone also did a fine job with the low end, grooving away with Reinert in a pocket land from hell!In 2008, Loudwire magazine ranked Traced In Air as #2 in the 10 Best Metal Albums of 2008.

[16] In 2018, Decibel Magazine ranked Traced In Air as #4 in the Top Ten Metal Reunion Albums.

"Wil Lewellyn of Treblezine.com listed Traced In Air amongst the 10 Essential Sci-Fi Metal Albums:[19]"The album is sonically heavier than Focus, but no less overt in its prominent jazz influence, with tracks like “Evolutionary Sleeper” showing they could defy time and be the band from the past and a band from the future at the same time."